Re: [BVARC] I oppose HR 555

John Chauvin via BVARC Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:00:07 -0800

Ron,
This is an EXCELLENT e-mail.  I too sent one, but didn't think to c.c.the BVARC 
Reflector.
There is one error in your e-mail.  At the TDXS meeting, you heard John 
Stratton cite that the law is not grandfathered and with the mere existence of 
the law you are in violation of a federal law as soon as it becomes law.  You 
can't leave the antennas up pending disposition of your application.  
You are not alone.
I'm confused with Scott's e-mail.  I don't understand it's purpose.
C U soon,
IZO

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Cc: K5HM <[email protected]>; BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB 
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 Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 10:33 PM
 Subject: [BVARC] I oppose HR 555

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, 
K5HMARRL Member # 2000517495   73,Ron, 
[email protected]/db/k5hm        Excelsior!  
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