If the HOA tries to fight you, just get the ACLU involved and the HOA will go bankrupt from legal fees!

    It's difficult for them to restrict flag poles, because then it becomes a federal issue.

    Make your own flagpole from wood, pipe or PVC.  Get it up nice and high!  Get the wife a fancy new dress.

    Start out with a long wire antenna draped in the attic, or get one outside around rhe house if you could.  You can then construct regular or coax attic dipoles for specific bands.

    Any restrictions on "flagpoles"?  How about putting up an artificial tree with an antenna inside?

    You may be able to change the outcome with more legal actions, but it could become quite costly.

     Don't worry.  If they make you take it down there are plenty of stealth antenna options you could use to stay on the air.

    For an exact match, take the unit to a lab and have an analysis done to obtain the exact frequency of the reflected color.  You can then have the exact color custom made from the data.

    You might find it in the land records office for your county.

   Contact the Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club in Nassau County.  They have hams from all over LI and NYC as members.  You can just Google their webpage.

   Check out the old Heathkit CW and AM tube transmitters.  They are popular and fun to work on and play with!

     Better off to do it stealth using a "satellite dish" and "connecting wires".  The less they know, the better off you are!

   Try explaining to them that an antenna tower will INCREASE the value of the property to potential ham buyers!  One man's eyesore is another man's thing of beauty.

    OK...  here's a new twist on beating that dreaded HOA and CC&R gestapo!  How about a homebrew vertical that doubles as a sprinkler and can be put out in the yard and taken in whenever the airwaves need "watering"?  It's basically a garden hose running to a base which supports a vertical rod.  The vertical consists of a hollow metal tube with holes in it at various points, which squirt out water in diferent directions along its length.  The "base" of the sprinkler is a round sort of thingy (sort of like a Christmas tree base) with a bunch of metal rods coming out a various points and lengths (radials) to support the vertical part of the "sprinkler".  What's funny is that it makes a pretty darn good sprinkler to boot!  

    Looks like ham real estate will definitely soon go up in value in that area!