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!

   If you have trees on your property that are a lot taller than 35 feet, why not just put antennas on them?

W2DIP...  How long of a wire did you slip through the hole in your roof?

    The thing about boatanchors is that they bring you back in time.  Unlike rice boxes which are difficult to work on, boatanchors can be opened up, repaired and modified by hams who have the skills.  There is also something magic about a big metal radio that has glowing tubes and smells like heated dust!  It's nice to sit at home behind one of those in the middle of the night in a blizzard, with the rig helping to warm up the room.  It's something that one really can't understand untill you experience it.

    How about a vintage D-104?

    Set up a multitude of resonant dipoles for all frequencies in many directions.  You can erect slopers or inverted V dipoles to reduce your tower's height requirements.

    You can get sued and even thrown out of your community.  The good thing is that they have to let you put up a TV antenna or satellite dish, so you can easily disguise your ham antenna as one of those.  Also, you can hide antennas in trees, bushes, flagpoles, lamposts and the like.  They even make ham antenna that look like vent pipes that you can install on your roof!

   Sounds like the internet!

    Sure!  Experiment all you like with various wire radials attached to the bottom of the antenna.  You may be surprised at how well it could perform on various frequencies!

    A huge tower supporting various verticals, beams, and dipoles resonant on all frequencies!

   Just tell them it has something to do with your computer.  That usually works great!

    There are a lot of companies now making artificial trees for cell phone antennas that can be found on the net.  Some of the trees are so real looking, that it hard to even tell that they are man made!  They are a bit on the pricy side however.

    Can I obtain or make a VFO to replace the transmit crystals in an old tube CB?  I know that many of those old radios used tuneable receive for 11 meters.