[BC] Bird eating towers

[Reader]

This is from Bob Gonsett's Newsletter:

DOES YOUR TOWER KILL BIRDS?
Seems like every time we publish a story about tall towers killing 
birds, a number of readers respond that they have never seen a bird 
kill - or have seen only a few kills - at their tower bases. 
Generating hard evidence on number or lack of bird kills is very 
important for the FCC proceeding on this subject, and now is the time 
to start collecting data.

Telecom attorney Fred Hopengarten K1VR has suggested that tower 
owners video record their tower bases (using a security camera with 
recording capability) to collect that data. After all, if there are 
no carcasses, what happened to the dead birds? The video, on fast 
forward, could be reviewed daily by an intern.

While a central repository for data (in the form of reports backed by 
DVDs) has yet to be established, sooner or later the FCC will ask for 
"comments" on the substantive question, or the FCC's consultant will 
ask for data. That will be the time to send in DVDs and/or 
affidavits. Hopengarten's web site, with some otherwise unpublished 
legal stuff on towers, is located at: http://www.qth.com/antennazoning/


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