I wonder if my recourse is to get on the architectural review committee?
Scott KD5FBA Scott Medbury 16802 Aprilmont Drive Sugar Land, TX 77498-1941 [email protected] From: BVARC [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Chauvin via BVARC Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 11:00 PM To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB Cc: John Chauvin Subject: Re: [BVARC] I oppose HR 555 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 _____ From: K5HM via BVARC <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Cc: K5HM <[email protected]>; BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]> 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, K5HM ARRL Member # 2000517495 73, Ron, K5HM <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <http://www.qrz.com/db/k5hm> www.qrz.com/db/k5hm ARRL Logologo (2)smaller Prize Excelsior! _______________________________________________ BVARC mailing list [email protected] http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org
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