Re: Outwitting Home Owner Associations/Condo Associations Regarding Antennas

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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
= = = Wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... 
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> Well said, Jim.
> 
> -- Stinger
> 
> "Jim Weir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 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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