I have no problem with my homeowner association restrictions, since I voluntarily signed the CC&Rs when I purchased the house. I have no one to blame but myself.
But I do think Hams in the US should lobby to ask the FCC to extend PRB-1 to apply to Ham antennas. For television antennas, for example satellite TV antennas, my HOA cannot completely block those, although they can ask that owners make it look reasonably good. I'd like the same ruling to apply to Ham antennas and override any CC&Rs that might have been signed by homeowners. Anyhow, I'm able to put up some stealth HF antennas, but the HOA rule does cause me problems getting to D-Star. If I could put up a short tower with rotor and beam, I could easily work 3 different D-Star repeaters. As it is, my hidden antenna is able to work just one. Jim - K6JM ----- Original Message ----- From: David Holman To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: New guy Neil, The dongle is a good opportunity for those that have no choice, but is still no substitute for a real radio. I know, DStar isn't everywhere, YET. :-D The part of your message that bothers me is: "Given that some have restrictions on antenna's and planning regs I suppose we could make exceptions...." Why should we have to make exceptions?? Why should we have to accept this as a part of our lives?? WE (all the people of the world) need to start putting an end to or fighting back against anything that oppresses or takes away individual rights and freedoms. What gives them the right to say we can't have an antenna. There is a brainwashing effort out there, and it is huge and very quiet, that it is OK, acceptable and normal to surrender your individual rights and freedoms to someone else: HOAs, zoning boards, local governments, schools and others. This is wrong. Dead Wrong!!!!! We are loosing more and more individual rights and freedoms everyday. And WE need to stand up and fight this. Unfortunately they are very entrenched. This doesn't mean to start a revolt (which probably won't go well). It means to get involved with these organizations to help them govern the interactions between people and not the step on individual rights and freedoms. They should not be able to tell you that you can't have an antenna (that would be an individual freedom). They can tell you that you have to work to solve interference (the interaction). Or that you can't have an antenna over a certain height because it might fall on your neighbor's property (Safety issue). Other than that, they have no right to tell you that you can't have an antenna or flag of a cockroach or whatever. Have a great day, David, AC7DS
