[Towertalk] ABC Home Owners Assoc Expose

Joe Subich, K4IK k4ik@subich.com
Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:18:13 -0400


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Smith
> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 2:22 PM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Towertalk] ABC Home Owners Assoc Expose
>
> Maybe I'm being over-optimistic, but it seems to me that the strong trend
> in state legislatures toward adding PRB-1 type "reasonable accommodation"
> language to state codes, plus the precedent of the statutory Federal
> pre-emption of CC&Rs for one type of antenna, sets the stage for an ARRL
> effort to get Congress to pass a similar pre-emption for CC&Rs that don't
> reasonably accommodate amateur antennas.


Perhaps a more appropriate action is to go back to those same state
legislatures that have adopted PRB-1 type "reasonable accommodation"
language and ask them to extend those statures to apply to private
contracts (CC&Rs).  We know the legislatures are willing to do something -
congress is still an unknown (after all they still haven't adopted the
amateur radio spectrum protection act after several years of trying).

73,

   ... Joe, K4IK