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Re: hurricane sandy destroys ham radio

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mark morgan

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Nov 21, 2012, 5:15:18 PM11/21/12
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radio...@yahoo.com wrote:
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> At least one guy's tower fell down, although that issn't what I'm talking about.
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> sandy destroyed most of the east coast, including peoples' homes.
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> Now they have to rebuild new houses where their old houses once stood.
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> Unfortunately, most of the states and states' jurisdictions affected by it have laws requiring all new homes in the county to have cc&r's requiring to join a hoa and prohibiting ham antennas (even if the previous house on the land was a non-hoa non-cc&R house) and requiring the owners to join a hoa prohibiting ham antennas.
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> So now a bunch of previously non-hoa non-CC&R houses and land are and will now be encumbered with hoa-mandatory houses.
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> prohibing ham antennas and cb antennas.
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> ham radio is dead on the east coast. Or soon will be.
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> Portables need working base stations to be effective in an emergency situation.
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> Without antennas on hoa-encumbered houses where there was once non-hoa houses, effective emergency relief can't be effectively done.
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> So the next big hurricane to strike there, if there's one, will leave them defenseless without effective communications. and jeopardize their safety.
> where they might even die when they otherwise wouldn't have.
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> All thanks to the laws requiring hoas with antenna restrictions on ALL new houses built within the states even if the previous house on the very same land was non-hoa non-CC&R.

calm down


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