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County staff ask owner to remove unauthorized weather station from communications tower
Summary
Staff told the Management Services Committee that a personal weather station installed without permission on a county communications tower could physically obstruct or interfere with emergency radio antennas and asked the owner to remove it; the committee referred the matter toward policy-and-procedure review and vendor/technical verification.
A staff member told the Iroquois County Management Services Committee July 20 that a personal weather station installed by “Mister Anderson” on the county communications tower had been placed without permission and should be removed.
The matter matters because county staff said the device sits horizontally in front of one of the county’s vertical emergency radio antennas and has “the potential to disrupt emergency communications,” including equipment used by the sheriff’s office and other public-safety…
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