[Towertalk] ABC Home Owners Assoc Expose

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Fellas, Let Technology solve this problem.

Why bother with all the ill feelings, RFI, politics, etc.  There are enough big radio clubs around the Country to lease space on farm land, install great antennas in "quiet" locations where the noise level is ZERO rather than S'9' (like in most urban areas).  

Using an internet remote station such as W7DXX or W4MQ would be a fantasic solution for those hams the can't afford the 40 acres, don't want to cut grass, 
don't want to maintain a stand alone house or are just to old to maintain an antenna farm...

The technology is there...no need to keep beating a dead horse...

I live in a townhouse which is pre-wired for everything imaginable and all of it jumps up and down with as little as 50 watts on 40m into a ham stick on the roof.  Why bother with it.  Now I run 1KW, got big antennas, great listening in a quiet location and all it takes is an internet connection better then 14.4kbps.

Have Fun,
dave
wa3gin
Virginia's First Completely Internet Remote Amateur Rradio station

> 
> 
> > -----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
> 
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