> From: N9EN@VOYAGER.NET [mailto:n9en@voyager.net]
> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 9:50 AM
> To: Joe Subich, K4IK; Mike Lazaroff K3AIR; towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Towertalk] deed restrictions
>
>
> At the risk of sounding belligerent, I think that Joe - K4IK,
> needs to do his homework on this issue. I can't remember
> where I saw the article in, whether it was in U.S. News &
> World Report magazine or in a Chicago Tribune newspa-
> per. But where ever it was, the article dealt with the sub-
> ject of "Homeowner's Associations" and how abusive they
> had become.
I have done my homework ... after all, I am vice-president of
the homeowners' association for the community in which I live.
All I'm saying is that K3AIR's painting of all homeowners'
associations as "Nazis" is offensive and wrong.
I happen to agree that the FCC should have preempted antenna
restrictions for amateur radio just as they did for direct
broadcast (satellite) television. In fact, I believe that the
ARRL screwed up when they asked the Commission to extend the
preemption rather than picking an easy test case and going to
the courts using the existing preemption. I also believe that
Congress should legislate the pre-emption since the Commission
seems to lack the balls to do their job right.
That said, there are many homeowners' associations that have
ceased to function, no longer enforce the CC&Rs, or which can
not enforce the CC&Rs because they have failed to enforce them
consistently. That some associations have gone overboard does
not make all HOAs bad any more than all amateur towers are bad
simply because some amateurs overload or fail to install them
properly.
73,
... Joe, K4IK
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