[TowerTalk] RE : Deed _protection_ for antennas using CC&R's

[Donald Chester]

>>Even "remote" doesn't come with any gurantees.  Purchase 20
>>acres, set up a
>>remote with antenna farm, developer sells land around you, large group of
>>fancy homes go up, form a HOA of which you aren't a member.
>>Soooo....they
>>don't like the looks of the antennas. Even though you were there
>>first they
>>file a lawsuit. It's happened to many airports already.  With
>>time and money
>>you'd probably prevail and get your money back...maybe, but they
>>can make it
>>inconvenient and expensive for the moment, maybe years. Then as it's a
>>remote location "things can happen".
>>
>>Roger (K8RI)

I have heard stories about HOA's in new developments trying to bully older 
residents on adjacent property into "voluntarily" joining, but anyone would 
be a fool to do that.  And if you are not a member of the HOA and everything 
about your antennas and towers was legal before they set up shop, what 
grounds would they have for a suit?  I'd tell them to go fly a kite! 
(probably in words not that polite)


>>  The important thing is that you avoid HOA
>>and CC&R controlled communities which usually means avoiding anything
>>build since the early 70's.  Many of the nicest communities around
>>here were built before then.  It's really annoying to me that hams
>>that want antennas are being forced into older neighborhoods and can't
>>buy in new developments or newer cities, but that's the way it is.
>>

Welcome to the Sweet Land of Liberty!!



>>A more likely scenario is that more hams will be required to use club
>>stations.  W6YX and N6IJ are two really good club stations within an
>>hour or so of here.  N6IJ is even planning to support remote operation
>>one of these days.

That sounds exactly like amateur radio in the old Soviet Union.  I used to 
listen to Radio Moscow back in the 50's and 60's.  They would sometimes 
describe amateur radio in the USSR.  First, you had to take out a "listening 
licence" in order to SWL.  Then once you became licensed to transmit, you 
usually operated from a club station.  There were very  few individual ham 
stations located in
personal residences.

Many aspects of life in USA are getting to be more and more like it was 
reported to be in that country we were taught to be afraid of in the 50's.

I'm glad I live out in the  country on 100 acres, where no-one can tell me 
what antennas I can or cannot erect on my own property.

I have a 127' base insulated tower that I use as a quarter wave vertical on 
160, complete with an extensive buried radial ground system.  Also  have a 
110' high 80m dipole.  The shack is outside in an old one-room schoolhouse I 
had moved onto the property.  My only antenna restrictions are to stay out 
of the way of the  farmer that I lease cropland to.

One positive thing I could say about the Soviet amateurs was that operator 
and technical competence were high.  Most stations,  down to the receiver, 
were homebrew.  We need more of that here.

73,

Don k4kyv

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