To an upset neighbor!
"Whenever we have guests over, they take one look at it and say, 'Oh my God, what is that?'" said Greg Ramsey, who's lived at 235 East 11th St. since 1988 and whose outdoor terraces sits about 12 feet away from the antenna. "It's like a military installation or something. It just seems extremely selfish to have this huge tower for one man to be running his ham radio from. It's obtrusive and inappropriate."
The tenant, who grew up in the building between Second Avenue and Third Avenue, told Hedlund that the antenna allows him to communicate with radio operators worldwide. "It was put up professionally and it's been approved," he said. "I didn't do anything in a precarious manner."
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(From the article): "That's a bunch of baloney," he said, equating the antenna to a flagpole someone could erect on their property.
That quote coming from a ham radio operator shows that he definitely has a processed meat obsession. I suggest an intervention immediately.
"It looks like a military installation?" says random gay neighbor clutching his pearls.
@ Marty
What a turkey.
I think a wishbone antenna would have been much distracting.
You do not want to move to Stuyvesant Town. Building has been without all water since 9:30 this morning (It is now 8:27 PM) and management had promised to restore water by 5:30 PM. All we get are empty promises that they are fixing it and we will have water back long before midnight (that was Resident Services telling me at 7:30 PM)
So, Marty, do you think the guy with the processed meat fetish is a spammer as well?
OMG the word verification is "Cultella". Wouldn't that be a great name for a band or a Goth supermodel?
Paul Isaacs, meet Chatroulette. Chatroulette, meet Paul Isaacs... It's like buying tylenol and emptying out the bottle to hold your medicinal slugs.
@Lisa: Most definitely! And I bet he's got this poster hanging in his apartment:
http://twe.ly/qlt
My brother, a ham operator also, wrote me and said,
Cool! If I remember correctly, a federal law was passed years ago that allows hams to do exactly as this guy did since too many communities were trying to restrict such antennas.
Mick
@Marty - Ha!
This must be the putz whose signal interferes when I'm practicing music in my apt. I play quietly and often with headphones and if he is "broadcasting" it just cuts in at a disturbingly loud volume and is startling. Besides that his conversations are dull and eternal. Knock this thing down.
I'm thinking we all ought to be getting ham radios instead of iphones. How retro and cool would that be? Are they portable or do you have to operate it in your basement with goggles and headphones?
@Jill
And a radiation shield.
HAM radio antenna is not only unsightly, but potential health hazard to neighbour or themselves. they use power around 1500 watts, typical microwave oven is 800-1200 watts, it is like Microwave oven operated with door open, coming out of those antenna.
previous anonymous, you don't know what you're talking about. ham radio operators don't transmit in the microwave ranges, and typical power operation is way less than 1500W -- not that it matters since we're talking about different wavelengths anyway. you can't cook with 20 meters, if you could your microwave would be something like 60 feet wide.
get a clue, nimbys!
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