At a former home I had a nice tower and antenna array for HF. On weekend mornings I would join some local 40m AM nets, so I had a 40m rotatable dipole mounted off the side of my tower at 50' ele for high angle of incidence radiation (worked fantastic). Being a broadcast engineer I have always loved power and would run full legal limit AM through a Henry 4K Ultra. I had one neighbor in particular who felt it was not his job to protect his new surround sound system from RFI and complained persistently to both the county and FCC. This lead to multiple visits from the county building inspector who found all of my paper work in order and to code. Later, I had a surprise visit from a FCC coordinator, a local HAM who was to do a preliminary station inspection and report back to the FCC. I more than welcomed the inspection and rather enjoyed being able to demonstrate my gear. ultimately, the FCC handed the complaining neighbor a RFI handbook and told me my station was well in compliance.
74' freestanding tower;
The AM station at the time;
I had better test equipment than the inspector;
I had a few run-ins with this particular neighbor, It started when I erected the tower and would sometimes just climb it to hang out up top to get a view of the city. He didn't like me looking in his backyard I recall. One day late in the evening after I had got back from a shooting competition, I was in the living room cleaning my guns when someone knocked on the door. I opened the door partway to find the complaining neighbor and his opening words where in a very forceful tone "I want to know what you are going to do to fix your interference?!" I opened the door the rest of the way, I was still holding my 1911 which I was still cleaning, once he noticed it, his tone changed and he rephrased himself to know what he could do, HAHahaha. I was polite and asked if he would like to come in and talk, but he nervously made up a reason why he had to get home and apologized for bothering late in the evening. He never came back around.
Me working on one of my previous towers;
Yep, thats me at the top of this 150' tower, I had to climb out to the driven element on the upper 20m 6ele monobander and fix a burnt N connector from a lightning hit. That was fun;
Also did some climbing on our stations 360' tower on South Mountain near Phoenix AZ;