FCC OTURD Laws

[kenglish]

I'm in an apartment, not under an HOA. The lack of maintenance is all the management's responsibility.

I've been there for almost 30 years. I have no clue who the new manager is...always had a good relationship with the previous ones, but haven't met this one yet. One manager, many years ago, let me install a feed-through conduit from the balcony. That was after I had to pay $80 for new glass in my sliding patio door, after it cracked from trying to wedge an additional coax behind it.

I've almost always had several TV and radio antennas, plus a sat dish or three, out there. The dishes were kept as invisible as possible, and the TV and radio antennas were always inside the balcony perimeter.

Kinda sux that I can't monitor my own station from home any more. Also, the nearby County park has gotten so noisy that you can't monitor anything there, and they (supposedly) have a curfew, too. They even built a "McDonald's Playland"-style of kids thing where I used to put my antenna. The also have carnivals and Farmer's Markets there nearly every day.

If an engineer can't listen to the radio any more, why should the FCC/NAB/Stations expect a regular-person listener to?
We need to start a petition to include radio in OTARD. If the broadcast industry even cares any more.

 

[trusty]

The assistant at the rental office was nice about it, said "maybe" I could sneak something back up in a few weeks, after the potential buyers tour the complex. But, she said the manager would like them "permanently removed".

I wonder why a skinny piece of 14 AWG wire, 30 feet off the ground, caught their attention, but not the big-honkin' DirecTV triple-stacker dishes with multiple LNB's, bolted to people's windowsills, did not?

OK. You have a problem, and every problem has a solution. It looks like you've had no trouble until the present managers wanted to sell the place. Phone books can be picked up; sat dishes are commonplace, grass can be mowed, but that piece of long wire?

To a potential buyer it's not an antenna; it's a lightning catcher - a safety hazard - something not covered in the building's insurance - wouldn't meet code - etc. Can't sell something like that.

Sometimes it's all about appearance.

Wait until the new management takes over and talk to them about the joy/challenge of DXing and "novelty" of the complex having its own station (while you show them how you grounded your antenna so well). Show them how your setup has BENEFITed the complex for the past 30 years (and maybe how their refusal just might cost them a tenant). Be positive and creative. They may be holding your signature on the HOA agreement, but you're holding the rent money.

And, in your spare time, look for a better place to live in the current buyers market - one that has a nice quiet park nearby.

 

[nocomradio]

To a potential buyer it's not an antenna; it's a lightning catcher - a safety hazard - something not covered in the building's insurance - wouldn't meet code - etc. Can't sell something like that.

Hmmmmm, I guess large aluminum light standards, satellite dishes, and metal railing around each balcony aren't hazardous in that way?

I see your point, but honestly, I can't see any of those things coming to fruition or anyone having a good argument other than for something not being up to code.