[TowerTalk] a solution for HOA problems?

[Jim Lux]

At 07:55 PM 10/16/2005, Alan NV8A (ex. AB2OS) wrote:
>On 10/16/05 07:14 pm Bob Smith tossed the following ingredients into the
>ever-growing pot of cybersoup:
>
> > disappointed!
> >
> > Gad,,, I really wanted one of those xmas trees, I've got 12 people
> > I'd like to hang from it for xmas right now! ,, hehe
> >
> > and at least the tree would be legal,
>
>If an HOA can have a rule against flying the US flag ad prevail in court
>against a violator, surely an HOA can have rules against trees,
>especially full-size ones that appear overnight.


Sure.. but the idea was that if the objection (from XYL, neighbor, or HOA) 
to antennas is aesthetic, the tree thing can eliminate that objection.


>IAC, some HOAs have rules against radio transmissions -- which of course
>they violate with their cell phones, garage door openers, etc.

I suspect that a rule against radio transmissions, per se, would be tough 
to enforce for a couple reasons:
1) Most HOAs don't have the resources to mount a DF project, and the local 
ham club's T-hunters are hardly likely to be a good resource.
2) While the FCC has stayed away from aesthetic issues, they are pretty 
clear that nobody else is going to be regulating RF exposure. I don't know 
that it's been tested in court, though.

and of course, the "equal protection" or "discriminatory enforcement" thing.