From what I understand from talking to people who work for water authorities in my particular area, the fenses and gates must be in good order and access must be restricted (whatever that means). Having said that, my friend WX4MOB was just given permission to put his repeater on one of the local water authorities tanks free of charge.
----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Thu Aug 20 20:27:02 2009 Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Repeaters and Water Towers I worked for local government for almost 35 years, retiring last year. We had both municipal water and electric departments. There was absolutely no homeland security involvement with our utilities. Sounds like your municipality is feeding someone a line. Chuck WB2EDV ----- Original Message ----- From: "kc8fwd" <[email protected] <mailto:kc8fwd%40hotmail.com> > To: <[email protected] <mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 9:14 PM Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Repeaters and Water Towers > We have a repeater at a water tower site and they are concerned that they > can get in trouble if they let us have access.It has been there for six > months.I am just taking over getting it to run at par.They just don't want > to get in trouble with homeland security. >
