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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>I’d like to see this happen, though I can easily see both sides of the argument. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>One very active person in our DX club specifically bought a home in an older subdivision that had no restrictions, only to find that when he installed the tower with county permits, the association changed the rules and got a court order to have him remove it. It wasn’t even visible from the road due to the abundance of tall trees. Pretty much the same thing happened with a local physician who ended up moving again after building a home putting up a tower and was basically run out. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>I can’t tell you how many people I know that are no longer in Amateur Radio due to their moving to an area that has restrictions. If you want to build a new home, you really don’t have much choice unless you go for the country as 99% of new additions have their antenna rules in the C&R’s. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Jim – KR9U<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Tacos [mailto:tacos-bounces+jbwolf=comcast.net@amrad.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Terry McCarty - WA5NTI<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 08, 2015 9:29 PM<br><b>To:</b> AMRAD reflector<br><b>Subject:</b> H.R. 1301 - Bill to ease antenna restrictions for ham radio antennas<br><b>Importance:</b> High<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>*** QST QST QST ***<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>TO: All club members! <br><br>The Federal H.R.1301 bill, if enacted, will make it easier for us to put up ham radio towers and antennas by relieving restrictions on licensed amateurs - similar to what was done for the satellite industry and their satellite TV dish antennas. <br><br>What is being proposed here is worth looking at and writing a letter to support the bill's passage.<br><br><b><u>The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015 -- H.R.1301 -- was introduced on March 4th in the US House of Representatives. The measure would direct the FCC to extend its rules relating to reasonable accommodation of Amateur Service communications to private land use restrictions.</u></b><br><br>HR 1301 will <b><u>require</u></b> the FCC to amend its Part 97 Amateur Service rules to apply the three-part test of the PRB-1 federal pre-emption policy <u>to include homeowners' association regulations and deed restrictions</u>, often referred to as "covenants, conditions, and restrictions" (CC&Rs). <br><br>All licensed hams are urged to contact their US House of Representatives members asking them to sign on to and support the bill as a co-sponsor.<br><br>Full information can be found at: <a href="http://www.arrl.org/hr-1301">http://www.arrl.org/hr-1301</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>*** QST QST QST ***<br><br>73 de<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre> Terry McCarty<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> <a href="mailto:3t3@comcast.net">3t3@comcast.net</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre> wa5nti<o:p></o:p></pre></div></body></html>