At 05:20 PM 3/31/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I received many solidly thought out responses to my request for inputs, and
>I am dumping them all to print for a file to study, mark with yellow high
>lighter, and the development of a long range game plan.
>
>Right now, my initial thoughts are to do multiple mailings and drop off
>several short articles to all of the mailboxes in the subdivision. I think
>many short articles concentrating on unique specifics in each case will
>have more impact than one, all encompassing, long winded bulletin that may
>not get thoroughly read.
>
>Having a copy of what is being sought, gives me the benefit of being able
>to drop notes to all of my neighbors pointing out to each of them how they
>are violating the proposed new subdivision rules with their individual
>practices. I'll get everyone pissed off about each and every example of
>aggravation I can develop.
>
>Chip, Chip, Chip..... Erode away the support that might exist with each
>peck of the hammer.
>Divide and conquer.
>Get others to join my side with the many concerns that I can create about
>satellite dishes, house colors, basketball goals, car work in driveways,
>boats, patio designs, roof colors, landscaping restraints, etc., and all
>the little nit picking things that I can think up each and every day over
>the many little things that need not be manipulated in our subdivision, etc.
>
>I will breed mistrust and discontent among the masses over the power that
>the board seeks to obtain.
>
>I'm very irritated by all of this, but I am going to work hard and smart to
>keep these unnecessary laws from being imposed upon my life and my community.
>
>I really do think I will win this one. I am just not going to wait until it
>is too late.
>I will work harder and smarter than the ones wanting to be neighborhood gods.
>Nothing worse than a zealot, and I will become a zealot.
>
>When I bought this house, I obtained a copy of the subdivision rules
>(established in 1968) so as to be sure that my antenna would be allowed.
>After I put the tower up, I received the usual phone calls and notices. I
>went to a meeting of the subdivision, and it was then and there that I made
>my position clear and solidly established. That was 18 years ago. I have
>had no problems or complaints since that time.
>
> Everyone around me and nearly everyone in the subdivision has cable TV. I
>use individual bandpass filters on all transmitters and a total of 5 TVI
>filters in my transmission line that always see a 50 ohm termination via a
>properly adjusted tuner. I run low power whenever possible. I have made
>sure that I cause no problems at all with any of my own house electronic
>equipment, and to the best of my knowledge, I only cause problems to just
>one neighbor who still insists on using an old 1.6 mHz wireless telephone,
>and is not on cable TV. Even at that, I cause problems to him only under
>QRO, and only on channel 2 when QRO.
>
>Now I have a bunch of new neighbors on the board that have the god syndrome
>in their minds. I was here before any of them, and I bought here just
>because I could have my antennas. I have improved my house to a degree far
>in excess of any of my neighbors, and the joint has been mortgage free for
>almost 10 years now.
>
>My wife and I bought 6 acres just outside of town 2 years ago on which we
>plan to build, but I am not going to move and build anew, only to have left
>this poor example of wrong practices behind me, and to haunt my fighting
>spirit in moments of private thought.
>
>I am considering adding a separate section to my home page concerning this
>fight. I will be glad to keep anybody interested informed about the
>progress of my situation as the developments evolve.
>
>73,
>N5RP
>Bob Perring
Good man! Way to go. The eyes of Texas ( and the rest of the Ham community
) are upon you. There is becomming way way to much regulation in our
personal lives.
sorry gentleman ... I will climb down from the soapbox now.
de ... N1MSV
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