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Originally Posted by greenmaji
How does a HAM opperator get his 80m anttena past the home owners association? Im sure there are some FCC rules that help you guys out. |
Umm.. no, there's no "hard and fast" rule from the feds that guarantee anything (yet, anyway). I rent this place, and the owner (and former tenant) is also a ham -- and he approached the homeowners association several years ago and gave a whole presentation about ham radio, and the sorts of antennas, etc... and (much to his own surprise, I'm sure) left the meeting with the blessings of the association to install any/all antennas he desired/needed, so long as none are any larger than a 20m quad!! ** [oh, yes... he definitely had all the measurements and diagrams, I dunno if they read them, but he handed 'em out!] Now, he never intended to install a 20m quad, of course, nor did he ever install one... but he _could_ (or, now, I could... :mozilla_wink: ).
Anyway, when I moved in, he left up the 40m delta loop and his 80m dipole. The side-effects of hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan & Jeanne in the summer of 2004 conspired (amongst them) to destroy the 80m dipole. I hoisted a pulley up in it's place, and used that to pull up a new (home made) 80m dipole. With the pulley arrangement, I can untie one anchor rope and have the antenna on the ground in a few minutes. :mozilla_smile:
After the hurricanes of 2005, the tree in the far back side of my lot dropped a couple large branches, including the one that was holding aloft the northernmost corner of the 40m delta loop -- I haven't (yet) repaired that antenna (because, with an antenna tuner, I can just as easily use the 80m dipole on 40m), but I'm using it as a "random wire" recieve-only antenna for the Kenwood R-5000 receiver.
- briand (AI4AI)
** for the non-amateur radio enthusiast/operator in the audience: a 20-meter quad is a fairly large antenna -- imagine a wire-frame box, approximately 18.5 feet x 18.5 feet, around 26 feet long. Then, put that on a tower, so you can rotate it in any direction... trust me, it takes up some real estate!