Sadly, the World is becoming more and more burdened with the infestation of HOA Marschstiefels,
and every HAM should consider it his Patriotic Duty to Protest the Rising Tide of General Conformity to HOA Marschstiefel "Norms",
Support the ARRL, and Worship Hiram Percy Maxim for the God that he is.
In HOT (HOA Occupied Territory) You might consider a Half Square Antenna. Especially if you have a second floor.
You can google it here: https://dailyantenna.blogspot.com/2019/03/work-low-band-hf-dx-with-half-square.html
With its low take-off angle and increased gain, this makes for a pretty decent DX Antenna.
You can see it better than how I describe it here, but essentially: You have a half-wave,
with a quarter-wave hanging down from each end, and you feed it from the corner.
This might fit right across a roof or attic, with the ends just hanging down (but above where "busy" Humans might come in contact with it.)
Or if your situation is heavy, hidden entirely right inside the walls and attic.
OR the top might fit right above your second-storey windows, and the ends come down and are hidden inside moulding,
or caulked into the edges of nonconductive moulding, and you feed it right from the corner of one of those windows,
OR it goes on the SIDE of an HOA Townhouse. Or: INSIDE the SIDE: Haha!
You might even use coaxial cable to make your half-square with some of the parts, with the whole thing mounted with the same little plastic brackets that the local CATV uses... Just solder the shield to the centre conductor for the elements, and it's just a wire that looks like a coax. And the feedline part IS: Actual, Real Coax! :-)
No matter what: This is a cheap antenna, and you can do this up big or small, depending on your situation.
You can easily put up and take down a temporary one. Or make it a more permanent installation.
There may be a ladder or two involved, but no tower climbing, ever, and no towers to blow over in a Florida Hurricane.
Just "Hanging and Pulling" from your windows means no climbing whatsoever, and this will keep you off that Silent Key Page,
well for at least a little while longer. (But you know what I say about the Silent Key Page... No matter how many times you leave it:
You're always coming back! But let's just SKIP on the Whole Silent Key Candidate Thing for TODAY...
Safety First!)
This will work well in a Florida "Townhouse" kind of Condo situation,
where the Disgusting "Left-Side of the IQ Bell Curve" HOA Marschstiefels are especially brutal to nonconformists.
Oh yea, I almost forgot: It will also work in the near vicinity of an overpriced Clanton Park Toronto Suburb, too...
Where someone will never have to deal with a Frozen Antenna Rotor on the roof of the building again, ever,
that's not supposed to be near anyway, because they just yanked the wires.
And moved on "up" to The Beaches and a proper Half-Square Antenna!
Best of all, the Half-Square starts getting practical dimension-wise for 40 Metres right on down to 10 Metres.
For 20 Metres, here's your low angle Dx Dream. And Gladys Cravitz won't see it, nor will the HOA Marschstiefels find it.
You MIGHT even be able to pull off an 80 Metre (or More!) one, though I've never actually heard of one:
Remember, once it's up, you only worry about the corner where you feed it and operate it!
If a couple of "Non-Resident" Brother Hams show up with a plain white van or panel truck,
and wear the correct attire including hardhats (sans callsigns!) and carry clipboards, the HOA Security Guy
driving around in the Golf Cart (With the stick-on "Security" letters that are half falling off)
might not even ask them what they are up to.
If the van has proper fibreglass ladders lashed to the top of it,
even if you don't need them but you might?
Well, that makes that van an OFFICIAL Van.
This is Best done if the Resident Ham isn't home, but one of his older "kids"
(who is not his kid but is a fellow Ham) is at home to open the door,
and the Condo Office has just closed up shop for the day. And the "Kid" can be busy inside with doing up the feedline stuff,
while the Outside Crew do their thing...
But if he DOES ask them, as is sometimes known to happen and Security Man has a drink in hand and a cooler?
Then (and only then) it's OKAY to take up his offer of a couple of cold drinks for the "Construction" Crew.
Remember, setting the HOA Man Aside, we're all just Happy Happy Little Worker Bees, and we don't ask why:
We just do what's on the clipboard because someone told us to and they pay us, right?
There are LOTS of CATV Subcontractors and such,
and those trucks don't have official logos anyway.
Stickers on your VOM's and antenna analyzers with names and callsigns
are not a good idea. Replace them with temporary "new" labels.
Also, cover the "Antenna Analyzer" name with a sticker that says "company property" or something.
And NO "Home Brew" Stuff! remember you're OFFICIAL!
The "Crew" just needs to get in, try to look "official"...and not like they're not having a good time.
(That comes later when you are On The Air and can Gloat Like a 'Mutah!),
Don't even think of touching any "common" areas, get the job done, and get out.
And remember, next weekend, it's YOUR turn to be Hardhat Builder Guy at YOUR BUDDY'S Place of HOA Imprisonment.
And I HIGHLY recommend that this kind of "Stealth" Antenna Raising party makes for a GREAT Summer Vacation Activity.
Just REMEMBER to do your Homework FIRST and check out the situation and you'll have your MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! ;-)
Caveat Emptor!
73 DE W8LV (and sometimes W8LV/VE3) BILL