HOA Logic: "We can't allow you to do that, because if we do, then someone will want to do something ELSE."
So: Nobody gets to do anything.
Because they said so.
So There!
Enjoy your Piece of Mind!
That might be, but isn't necessarily true. It is not a black and white type of thing. There's a lot of gray areas in there.
You can still play radio when living in an HOA, as others have posted in this topic.
You might not be able to do it the way you would with not living in an HOA, but you can still do it.
You just have to adapt to your surroundings a bit.
This is EXACTLY why we need to get the HOA out of the "decision making"
Process.
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Do you know what is the best part of beating your head against a brick wall? It feels so good when you stop.
There is no way you'll ever get HOAs out of the "decision making process" so to speak in areas where they exist. It just isn't going to happen. Like it or not, HOAs do have a valid purpose, and reason for existence. It is what it is. We as hams, are a fairly small and insignificant (to most people) component of the population. If there are 300M people in the US, and 700K of us, that works out to 0.2% of the overall population, more or less. Nobody is going to bend over backwards for two people out of a thousand. Expecting that to change is unrealistic at best. And although we think it should be otherwise, in the grand scheme of things we just aren't that important to 99.8% of the population.
Let the 99.8% of the people have their peace of mind. That's great! It just makes it easier for me to fly under the radar and do what I want to do anyways.
The worst thing I could possibly do, is make a big stink about it. That would really mess up my ability to stay under the radar and keep other people's noses out of my business.