Antennas In An HOA Restricted Community
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- Опубликовано: 12 ноя 2023
- This is my first video in a while. We moved from Maryland to Florida and moved from a nice piece of land with no HOA where I had a 50 ft tower to an HOA restricted community.
In this video I am going to cover how I used the Attic for some antennas, how I hid a wire antenna and some details about by new Flagpole Vertical HF Antenna.
Please ignore the audio issues, I still have not gotten the new studio completely setup and tested.
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Boy I'm glad I grew up and live in the country on 90 acres. My "radio" shack is 30x30 feet with running water, a stove, and a bathroom. Didnt have to get a single permit for me to build it. Dang sure dont pay to ask permission to build and tune my drag truck in the middle of the night much less put something helpful like an antenna up.
I finally moved away from the HOA, putting in my tower order this month
on the long term idea list is a 1/4 wave vertical for 30 meters in the front yard that will look suspiciously like a flag pole, but that is 3 or 4 antennas down the road
When I moved from Maryland to Florida I moved from out in the country where there was no HOA to a community where there is an HOA. I miss not having restrictions. I do have a flagpole antenna from Greyline DX and it works very well. It is a multi band so you could look at that as an alternative to just a 30 meter vertical. It does not require ground radials either.
If the HOA saw your equipment, they would suddenly get headaches from the radio waves.😂
Eff HOA Rules!
1) FCC is Federal, and all federal rules and laws supercedes anything passed by HAO, Local Municipality, and State laws. There has been several court cases of HOAs taking Hams to court about having antennas and radio equipment, and each of the HOA cases the HOA lost!.
2) In case of emergency, when the power and telephone communications goes down, they will be wanting you to save their dumb asses and use your equipment to try to contact friends and relatives. Deny them and tell them that you are in contact with various agencies setting up help for the community. In other words, your equipment is not a pay phone service.
3) What you do in the privacy of your home and business office is your business, not theirs. You being a Ham is none of their business unless they are hams too and want to combine resources with you.
4) If you go out and talk with your friends on a mobile or handheld radio, and they dare confront you about it, you tell them point blank "I have a federal license to do what I do. You have no say in what I can say and do with my license and equipment."
5)They dare call the police on you, have talk with the police about your equipment you have on you, and show them your license (I keep a PDF Copy of mine in my smartphone with easy access to the files (Technician and GMRS).) And then remind them that in case of an emergency, it will be Ham operators like you that will be setting up Coms for the agencies that comes to survey the damage and do the clean up during said emergency. Then shake their hands and make a complaint to them about the HOA harassing you.
Here in NYC I have similar issues they NYCHA because they had a "No Ham Radio Equipment" Clause in their lease. In short 1)They were taken to court and lost, and 2) Most licensed Hams in NYC do not transmit kilo-watt stations; illegal CB'ers do. 3) I do not say what I have so they do not know, but there are a couple illegal CBers and Hams in my area who think they know what I have. I deny everything.
I have six antennas in a lax HOA. They are all in the backyard and cannot be seen from the street. My biggest is an EFHW simple wire antenna that goes from one fence to the 20 foot eve of the house and back down to the other fence. I have three neighbors. They know who I am and what I do. They know if the poop hits the fan, I am the one they want to come and see. They have no problems with my various antenna. I think that if mostly, you keep those antennas hidden, then you are just fine, but like a previous commenter said, we are regulated by the FCC and not some silly HOA. Remember, a good ham is a courteous ham. Don't make the HOA Karen angry.
There are a lot of hams in the villages. The ones that hae privacy fences can get away with antennas pretty easily. The HOA knows about the stealth antennas and if they ae stealth there is not a problem. I told them about the flagpole antenna and they were fine with it and gave me permission. I guess they are not too bad :)
Would love to see details on the flagpole antenna. Main construction and what is insulating the two parts?
There are actually 3 parts. The part the goes into the ground, the short side and the long side. They are isolated by fiberglass pieces. If you go to the website in the description under more, that is my post. You can click on the photo of the flagpole and can see about 4 feet up the break where the fiberglass insert is. That is also where the ladder line comes out and connects to the 2 poles. Sorry, I did not anticipate questions on the flagpole itself.
curious... isn't there OTAR rules from the FCC preventing organizations, such as an HOA, from having certain antenna restrictions? I know there are limits set forth by the FCC around this that have to do with 1 meter or less in diameter, being exclusive use/controlled by home owner, etc... free from any organization's restrictions. Have you researched capabilities afforded to you by FCC?
The FCC does allow for TV and Satellite antennas but I think that is the only ones so far. There has been legislation attempts to allow for ham radio antennas. So far none of them have made it through the process.
@@HamRadioUnlimited well who's to say what the antenna is for? If you put one up, couldn't you just say it's for TV?
HOA should be illegal.
as i see it your a glorified renter when you live in a HOA