JW,

"Clever works. Big mouths don't. And, if you don't like the
rules, either don't move in or once you move in then try to
change them. If a majority of your neighbors agree, it is
changed. That's the way I learned that this country works."

DITTO THAT "JW" !

suyb... ~ RHF
- - - Simply Use Your Brain... Before Using Your Mouth !
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= = = "Stinger"
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Well said, Jim.

-- Stinger

"Jim Weir" wrote in message
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I spent five years on the board of, and two years as the president of, a
721
home development board of directors. We had a few blowhards who, like
many in
here, told us to go to hell and parked cars on blocks and the like.

It wasn't rocket science. We voted a 30 day "take it away or go to
court." We
were impolitely told to go to hell. We didn't go to hell, we went to
court.
Not a big deal. Between the court costs and our lawyer's fees, the
blowhard had
a thousand dollar junk car project to remove. Three or four cases like
that in
the first couple of years and things got remarkably quiet, and we all got
along
like neighbors respecting the wishes of each other.

I took perverse satisfaction in stringing copper tape under the eaves of
the
house, strangely just long enough to make a quarter wave dipole for forty
meters. But it was painted with exactly the same shade that the eaves
were
painted, run with a quarter-gallon with adequate filtering, matched to the
n'th
degree, and worked the world on everything from forty on up. You could
walk
right up to it and not detect that there was an antenna of any sort.

Not to mention the 2-meter groundplane disguised as a chimney strap.
Painted
wrought-iron black and strangely so, 19 inches long. Coax? Run down a
mortar
seam and painted mortar grey. From five feet away, it was
indistinguishable
from the mortar.

I laugh at you blowhards telling us how you will do what you damn well
please
when and where you damn well please to do it. I note that none of you
have
tried it.

Clever works. Big mouths don't. And, if you don't like the rules, either
don't
move in or once you move in then try to change them. If a majority of
your
neighbors agree, it is changed. That's the way I learned that this
country
works.

Jim




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