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1~ ~ TO~ ~ TOWERS 200 MONITORING PROTOCOL - The testing Protocol, initially the SPECIAL PERMIT GRANTING AUTHORITY (SPGA) - The Cobbs Protocol. which is to be used to monitor the emissions Board of Selectmen shall be the SPGA for thi_s Article. fi.om existing and new Personal WireleSs service Facilities STRUCTURALLY ABLE - The determination that a Tower or -.upon adoption of this Article. The SPGA may, as the strucltlre is capable of carrying the load imposed by the .technology changes, .require, by written regulation, the use of proposed new Antennas under all reasonably predictable other testing protocols. A copy of the Monitoring Protocol shall conditions as determined by professional structural engineering be on file with the' Board of Selectmen and the Town Clerk. analysis. MONOPOLE - A sinsle self-supporting vertical pole With. no guy TELEPORT - A facility utilizin8 satellite dishes or,rearer than 2.0 · wire anchors, usually consisting of'a galvanized or other meters in diameter deSigned to uplink to communications unpainted metal, or a wooden pole With below grade satellites for'transmittin8 in the C-Band (4 - 6 (H-Iz).specUum. foundations. TOWER - A lattice structure or framework, or Monopole, that is PERSONAL WIRELESS SERVICES - Commercial Mobile designed to support Personal Wireless Service transmission, Services, unlicensed wireless services, and common carrier receiving and/or relaying antennas and/or equipment. wireleSs exchange access services. TheSe services include: ceHuiar services, personal communications services (PCS), IV § 171 = 123. Exempted Wireless Telecommunications Uses: Specialized M°bileRadi°Services, andPagin8Services. This Article specifically exempts the following wireless PERSONAL .WIRELESS SERVICE 'FACILITY- All equipment telecommunications facilities: police, fire, ambulance and other . (including any Repeaters) with Which a Personal' Wireless emergency dispatch; amateur (ham) radio; citizens band radio; any Service Provider broadCaSts and receives the radio-frequency existing commercial, radio tower;, radio dispatch services for local waveS which carry their services and all locations of said businesseS. No Personal Wireless Service Facility shall be equipment or any pan thereof. This Facility may be sited on considered exempt from this Article. for any reason whether or not one. or more Towers or structure(s) owned'and permitted by said Facility is proposed to share a Tower'or other structure with another owner or entity, such exempt uses, PERSONAL WIRELESS SERVICE PROVIDER - An entity, licensed by the FCC to provide Personal Wireless Services to You don't want to in~erfere with your local individuals°rinstituti°ns' emergency services or antagonize'HAM radio 'RADIATION PROPAGATION STUDIES OR RADIAL PLOTS- operatora But ~oU also don't want Ham operators Computer generated estimates of the radiation emanating from to lease their towers to other carrier& Re, lie Antennas or Repeaters sited .on a specific Tower or structure, dispatch for local businesses is a judgment c~l. The The height above ground, power input and output, frequency Telecom Act only preempts local 'autla~ty for output,, type of antenna, antenna gain, topography of the site ' cellular ~elecommunications service~ Broadca~ and its surrotmdin~s are all taken into account to create these facilities for TI/and radio can still be banned simulations. They are the primary tool for determining whether outright in communffie~ a site will provide Adequat· Coverage for the Personal W'treless Service Facility proposed for that Site.' V § 171 - 124. prOvision of Independent Consultants: RI~F, ATER ' A' small receiver/relay transmitter of not more than A. Upon submission of an Application for a Special Permit under 20 watts output designed to provide service to areas which are this Article, the SPGA shall hire independent consultants not able to receive Adequate Coverage directly from a Base whose services shah be paid for by the Applicant(s) under the Station, ·. /-'-. terms of Selectmen's Policies and Procedures in accosgance · .. . : with Chapter 593 of the Acts of 1989. These Consulta