Jeff,
Many years ago I owned a home in Lake of the Pines, CA.....CC&R country and
they too had exactly the same restrictions, no RF-producing devices allowed,
but all the fat, rich guys could put up their 3-meter satellite dishes at
will.....anyway, I put up an 80-meter wire dipole which no one could see
then went with a Ringo Ranger vertical tacked to the roof and this is when I
got hassled by the "security police" the CC&R board sent out. Bottom line, I
told them it was a "receive only" antenna and that the burden was on them to
prove otherwise.
I guess now-a-days, cordless telephones and cell phones would be banned from
this subdivision as well, according to their rules?
Good luck.....we moved out of this environment (I will never live in CC&R
country again!!!) and found a place in the County that had none and never
looked back..........73 /k6sdw
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Maass [mailto:jmaass@columbus.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 8:51 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] C C & Rs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-towertalk@contesting.com
> [mailto:owner-towertalk@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Jim Wheat
> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 11:28 AM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] C C & Rs
>
>
> There has been much talk here lately about C C & Rs and how restrictive
> they are.
>
> I am in the market for a new home site south of Houston. I find that
> most subdivisions have banned us hams.
>
> <<Deletions>>
>
> You can even beat that one using small mobile antennas or hidden wire
> antennas but here is one I ran into the other day that is hard to beat.
> " There shall be no RF producing device on any lot in this subdivision
> that MAY cause interference to other consumer equipment". This goes
> on to mention cb but does not mention hams but the way it is worded rules
> out amateur activity as well.
>
> The HOA denied my request for stealth antennas based on the ban on RF
> producing devices.
>
I'll defer to the lawyers and those with experience with HOAs, of course,
but that particular clause would seem to ban cell phones (interfere with my
Sony wireless headphones), "efficiency" lightbulbs, some dimmer swiches,
computers, and a variety of other consumer devices. All MAY cause
interference to consumer devices (especially the poorly shielded crud
consumer devices being produced today). Bluetooth will make the situation
worse, when every appliance starts to be an "RF producing device".
Allowing one such "RF producing device" could invalid the clause, couldn't
it?
73,
Jeff Maass jmaass@columbus.rr.com Located near Columbus Ohio
USPSA # L-1192 NROI/CRO Amateur Radio K8ND
Maass' IPSC Resources Page: http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass
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