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r <br />I <br />I. <br />Pentel is sn amateur radio operator who uses radio <br />communications to serve the public inte-est. After she was <br />licensed by the FCC in December 1988 to operate an amateur radio <br />and a station from her home, she installed on her roof a vertical <br />radio antenna that reaches a height from the ground of 56-5 eet <br />over the next two years, Pentel was unable to establish rel <br />radio communications with other amateurs across the United States, <br />and she was able to establish only one international contac . <br />Pentel concluded that her existing antenna thus was not adequate <br />for domestic, much less international, communications. <br />Accordingly, Pentel began preparing to install a more <br />sophisticated antenna. The replacement was to be a retractable <br />steel tower that measured 30 feet when lowered and 68 feet when <br />fully extended. This tower, which Pentel planned to have installed <br />professionally in accordance with its manufacturer s <br />specifications, was to have mounted on its top two directional <br />aluminura antennas.' <br />Pentel was unaware when she installed her original antenna <br />that she was violating the city's toning ordinance, which limits <br />all structures, including radio antennas, to a height of twenty- <br />ipentel's proposed antenna would be >"°f® <br />existing"set-up'fOf two «asons Firs^ ^ -ttical <br />antenna dissipates signals in '?itec’:ions, un^^^ signals, thus <br />directional antenna would concentrate and collect signa, <br />itho-TPasina her ability to transmit and receive in a speciri <br />dLection! second, an^antenna^s effectiveness ^^^aller <br />K PPntel's existinq antenna is blocked by trees. Her taller <br />Replacement antenna, when extended, would be at or <br />nearby trees, thus improving her signal transmission and re p <br />-2-