[amsat-bb] Another Condominium Story (was: Re: misinformed posters on qrz.com)

[Dan Schultz <n8fgv@xxxxxxxxx>]

My parents are shopping for a condominium since the house that I grew up
in is a bit too large for them. They were talking with a loan officer at
their bank, and expressed reservations about living in a place with so
many rules and regulations. The loan officer replied something to the
effect of  "Well, you really need these regulations to protect you,
otherwise some ham radio operator might move in next door...".

So much for our public image....

Dan Schultz N8FGV


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Robert Oler WB5MZO Houston TX wrote:

>We just recently in the community association where I live managed
>to change the rules regarding amateur radio antennas.  Those of us
>who had had them for along time would have been able to have
>kept ours but under some new laws no new ones could have come.
>Well we (a bunch of hams here in CLear Lake Houston TX) have
>spent a lot of time changing that and now ham radio has a safe
>home in our Community association.

>During that effort I found a lot of people just simply didnt know
>what the hobby was and as a result accepted a lot of "myths" that
>some perpetuated.  Now those people, the ones who were
>pushing things as gospel that they either knew were untrue or had
>intentionally made up I have great disdain for.  The others I found
>it a pleasure to educate.

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