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How to - Avoid Homeowner antenna restrictions
piccolo:
A lot of people act out of fear. HOAs were created to allay the fears of having a bunch of crackheads move in and drop real estate values.
If you can convince them that it is in their own interests to overlook a stealthy antenna because in an emergency you can let their darling daughter know they are OK, they will support you.
Another sneaky trick in dealing with older people (that want to rat you out) is to find out if they have kids out of the area. Get the kids' phone number and wait. When something happens, ANYTHING a dented fender, (or the highway yellow painting of their house on Halloween ;D) have a friend with a different area code than yours call them with a 'radiogram from a ham operator that lives near your parents' and assure them everything is well after their accident.
Of course, the kids will call home INSTANTLY and report that a local ham yada yada yada.
They will instantly go to the HOA and FIGHT to get you a variance to build a 200 foot tall tower and probably finance it.
The reason for most HOA rules is to protect real estate values.
If you can spin it and change ham radio from being an eyesore into a benefit to the community you are pretty much GTG.
WHen all else fails, put up a 200 foot steel tower, half bury a bathtub near it and put a lighted Virgin Mary statue facing it and tell them it is a religious shrine protected under the First Amendment.
idial1911:
--- Quote from: piccolo on March 11, 2012, 09:23:44 PM ---WHen all else fails, put up a 200 foot steel tower, half bury a bathtub near it and put a lighted Virgin Mary statue facing it and tell them it is a religious shrine protected under the First Amendment.
--- End quote ---
Potentially the greatest sentence in the short history of this website!
"Fine if you want me to take down the tower, YOU go tell the Virgin Mary you want to disrespect her like that!"
spacecase0:
I have seen very good antennas installed in attics,
it is not that hard to do it
for HF,
a center fed dipole with the ends turned down inside the walls seems to work pretty well and is installable in most houses
for VHF / UHF
antennas in the attic work well, you can even put a antenna rotator on them and no one will see them at all.
Sky Pilot:
Different HOAs have different rules.
The Federales passed a steamroller rule that mashed HOA regulations into the dirt pertaining to satellite dishes.
HOAs have to allow them now.
Our HOA allows TV antennas, on a tripod mount, on the peak of the roof, if not over 4 foot above the peak.
Guess what.
There are ham antennas the layman can't distinguish from a TV antenna.
It can even have a rotor, and Rosy Longnose next door won't know the difference!
(Magnet wire is your friend. Whether windom, dipole, delta loop, etc., magnet wire is invisible from a few feet away!)
PLA:
Pic,
Let me be the first to say you are Truley, a sick man. And a valuable asset here.
You definately came to the right place
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