Scott W. Harvey wrote:
Doug Adair wrote:
"Randy or Sherry Guttery" wrote in message
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Chuck Harris wrote:


I'd sure like to see some references on that one!
Yeah, me to. Where my mother lives (condominiums) they absolutely
prohibit visible antennas of any sort - it's in their association
bylaws. If they put up a dish - they have to camouflage it. The City is
just as tough on other similar stuff...

Better tell her association that lawyers will be knocking on their door
sooner or later with their hands out. I don't know about rooftop
conventional OTA antennas, but associations are absolutely prohibited by
federal law from including prohibitions on DBS dishes in their CCRs or
discouraging their use in any way. Requirements to camoflage are NOT
permitted either. The FCC has made it very clear that they want
competition to cable and have jurisdiction in this matter to achieve it,
so the edicts of cities and "townships" do not apply. If an association
takes it to court they will LOSE.

Scott, that works only if the area the dish is attached to belongs to the
home owner, or is made exclusively available to the home owner.

Condo owners are in a completely different situation.

You can set a dish on your porch, or patio, if the porch or patio is exclusively
yours to use. You can set it in a window, as long as it does not extend past
the window into the air outside of the window.

If you drill holes in the common roof of a town house, or the outside walls,
or drive a spike into the common lawn of the town house, you will lose.
You will also get to pay for the damage you did to the roof, or wall, or
lawn, if any.

Someone recently posted the FCC regs relative to TV, Radio and Ham antennas,
and that fact was made quit clear in their Q&A section.

-Chuck