On Feb 18, 7:09 am, Art Clemons wrote:

4th, the ideal solution would be for Congress to direct the FCC to exempt
amateur installations from most such contractual obligations, and then ha
ve
the FCC do so, as it did for TV antennas and dishes less than one meter i
n
diameter. I don't see that happening in the near future, but we as hams
can
always hope.

Which is pretty much the intent of HR 2160, albeit in a round about
sort of way.

http://www.arrl.org/?artid”29

I'm guessing that this bill will never make it out of committee, and
even if it did, there is no real hope of it directly helping this
situation unless the report it commissions spurs congress to act.

We've had some efforts at the Texas state level to make a state law
that applies the PRB-1 language to private contracts and CC&R's but
these usually never make it very far. Other states may have had more
luck with this, I don't know. In Texas they where strongly opposed by
the HOA management company lobby and I suspect that the same folks
would come out of the wood work to oppose any efforts at the federal
level.

Best we can do at this point is to try and lobby our congressmen to
support HR 2160 and senators to support SB 1755. See the ARRL’s
information http://www.arrl.org/govrelations/ page for details on how
best to help.

Even if you don’t have CC&R problems now I would recommend any ham (or
other interested party) urge your elected officials to support this.
I would love to have a better legal position when trying to talk the
HOA into letting me put up some antennas. Right now I have to pretty
much beg and take what they give me.

-= Bob =-