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PRB-1 and CCNR's
On Mar 13, 10:02�pm, "KC4UAI" wrote:
One can argue that there is a compelling interest in providing "reasonable accommodation" for armature radio. *Should I desire to put up any kind of usable antenna, my options are as follows: 1. Get the HOA to back off by my persuasive arguments about the neighborhood being better off having such communications infrastructure in my back yard. *(Very unlikely) 2. Move to a different house that has less restrictive CCNR's. (Which I cannot find with the same quality/price that I have now) I would argue that lack of CC&Rs is a quality-of-life issue. If I can't do reasonable things with my home, my quality- of-life is reduced. Now of course "reasonable" is the key factor. Putting a 90 foot tower holding several large beams on a quarter-acre lot isn't very reasonable. Putting up a dipole or vertical on the same lot *is* reasonable, IMHO. 3. Put it up anyway and wait for a court order to take it down (and pay the HOA whatever they decide the fines are going to be) *(Which I cannot afford, I'm sure.) 4. Hope for a state or federal law that preempts the CCNR's I feel where forced on me in many ways. How about working for such a law? I'm here to tell you that in Northeast Dallas you are very unlikely to find reasonable housing in the $200K price range built in the last few years that is not CCNR restricted from ham radio antennas. *The builders here simply use the same boiler plate CCNR for all their developments and there is little else to buy here. *It may be different in rural areas, but I'm betting that around larger cities in the US this is standard practice. *This means that #4 is about all I can hope for. A lot depends on the area. Here in suburban Philadelphia, CC&Rs vary all over the place. Many older homes, and there are lots of them, are completely unrestricted as to antennas. You still have to satisfy the building code, but that's a safety issue. With newer homes (less than 40 years old), it's a mixed bag. Some are extremely restricted, some not. It just depends on the builder and the community. Some folks like CC&Rs because they think CC&Rs "protect property values". Yet in every case I've seen in this area, unrestricted houses command *higher* prices and better appreciation than their CC&R'd counterparts. In my case I settled for less house and less land in order to have no anti-antenna restrictions for a given price and community. I could have gotten more for less elsewhere, but there were other considerations as to where I would live. $200K isn't a lot of money for a house these days in many markets. Take a look at realtor.com and/or zillow.com, and see what houses go for in various cities. One thing to look for in the house description is "fee simple". While it's no guarantee of an unrestricted property, anything other than fee simple is almost guaranteed to have lots of restrictions. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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PRB-1 and CCNR's
On Mar 14, 1:47 am, wrote:
On Mar 13, 10:02�pm, "KC4UAI" wrote: 4. Hope for a state or federal law that preempts the CCNR's I feel where forced on me in many ways. How about working for such a law? Aside from writing my congressman and advocating that others with my same views do the same, what else can one do? The last house bill got introduced and quickly referred to a committee where it died. How can we get it out of that committee with a recommendation that it be passed? The FCC in it's latest ruling on this specifically states that if the Congress tells them to do it they will expand PRB-1 to include CCNRs for ham radio. How do we get Congress to do that? After all, there are but 600K or so hams who one could argue might be interested in this, and few others outside that group who would care. I actually think this is as important as the spectrum protection stuff we do. Spectrum doesn't mean a thing, if you cannot build an antenna to use it. -= bob =- |
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