Gentlemen,
I am a radio amateur. I have successfully operated within my HOA controlled subdivision since 2008 without any consequences. However, the provisions of HR 555 would require me to get approval from my HOA for my existing antennas. If the HOA should not approve them, I would have to take them down or be in violation of FCC regulations, according to HR 555 Presently I invested over $10,000 in station equipment in joyful pursuit of my hobby. If this bill should become law, my equipment will be useless without an antenna. So where can I send the ARRL the bill for all the equipment I can no longer use? HR 555 requires the HOA to approve any antenna system. Every HOA has an architectural committee which approves all property improvements. Do you think they are going to like my three element Yagi on a 30 foot pole or even a simple vertical antenna 30 feet in the air? To HOA's, structures like that are anathema. Having been involved in an HOA, I know that this kind of request means nothing but delay at best. They receive the request; consider for some time; a very, very, very long time. You, the ARRL Board, know this too, or perhaps you never had to deal with an HOA? How do you expect an HOA committee of laymen determine what constitutes an effective antenna? What are you thinking? There is nothing in H.R.555 to motivate an HOA to behave otherwise. There is nothing in this bill that that gives the amateur any right or leverage to pursue our on-the-air activities without approval from the HOA. Who determines what is a reasonable or effective antenna system, the HOA? I cannot believe the ARRL would knowingly undermine its own future. You must be smoking some great weed over there in Newington. Perhaps your vision for the future is a Chinese HT. Or maybe this will revive the interest in CB radio. I see little future in being a licensed ham or an ARRL member if this bill passes. I urge you and your fellow officers and directors to withdraw this bill from Congress. Ron Litt, K5HM ARRL Member # 2000517495 73, Ron, K5HM <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <http://www.qrz.com/db/k5hm> www.qrz.com/db/k5hm Excelsior!
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