"can you legally increase your FM field strength, as an example, to cover that private land (and to make matters simple, only that private land)? Seems to me I've read something about special circumstances for university campuses - as long as your field strength at the edges of the campus doesn't go over the legal limits, you're OK. Or am I all wrong?"
NO. This applies ONLY to an AM carrier current system or an antenna on an educational campus.
The rule your referencing is 15.221. There is no such provision in 15.239.
Now what has not been tossed here for situations like a mobile home park for FM coverage is using a leaky coax system.
The same rule applies for 250uV @ 3 meters from the coax, but you can have as long a leaky coax you want. This is the ONLY similarity to an AM carrier current system feeding a power line or neutral, in where as that signal cannot exceed a certain distance FROM that power line or neutral.
But that signal can go as far down that power line or neutral or leaky coax as far as the power line, neutral or leaky coax runs.
Making a leaky coax is not all that difficult to do, and can be done with cheap cable tv coax. Just string up a single run of it, slice into the outer braid every 1/2 wavelength along the total length of the coax, seal up the sliced areas to weatherize, terminate the end of the coax with 75 ohms, fire up and adjust TX power till you achieve the 250uV @ 3 meter point, or close proximate it by using a receiver with an S meter, then later get someone with an accurate meter or communications monitor and check it for compliance.
RFB
be creative. get that part 15 am and install it how it is in diagram and disguise the antenna somehow. like maybe an elevated bird feeder or flag pole. i believe it is now federal law that you are allowed up to a 20ft flagpole regardless of any CCR's or property restrictions ultimately to do anything substantial with fm and still be legal he would need to enlist the cooperation of the park. it seems that is not likely to happen from reading his postings.
"i believe it is now federal law that you are allowed up to a 20ft flagpole regardless of any CCR's or property restrictions""
I would not break out the victory whiskey and wine glasses just yet on this, the issue is still not clarified as to "private" and "common" property under HOA/CCR situations.
Also the provision of right to display the flag does not specify exactly how one may rightfully display said flag in regards to how the flag is flown.
Also there are state level and local level considerations. Think about this. If every state and every local authority were to set aside their rights to set policy for their states and local regions, your that much closer to a one world government type environment.
States do have the right to enact and enforce their own laws, and even have the right to dispute and reject any Federal level law that goes against the state level authority and sovereignty of empowerment over their state or county or city.
Does not mean the green light to outright rebellion or anything like that, but government cant just waltz in and dictate what is what making anything else null and void. I think you would agree if government were to just waltz in to your home and dictate to you that you cannot cook at 5pm so as to save energy, or dictate to you how to run your home, or what rules to set down, or when to hoist up the flag or wave it a few times or nail it to the porch railing.
The HOA's and CCR's are not gonna sit idle by and let the fed, state, local levels just waltz in and dictate thou must put up mast and hoist flag.
Perhaps reading through HOA TALK and the links provided within might give some added insight.
A bunch of nonsense if you ask me. And a complete waste of time too...not to mention money no one seems to have...but someone is digging deep to keep this endless battle going.
Would be a whole lot easier if HOA/CCR and the stuck up residents just bend a little. In creating their fake Andy Griffith perfect neighborhood world, they are the cause of their own roadblocks when they want to do something. How ironic..and quite funny to boot.
What is the old saying...can't have your cake and eat it too. Keep that in mind people when your sitting in the HOA office about to sign your right to sovereignty to your own property away.
RFB
OK, so IF your FM signal only covers private land, and effectively goes down to 0 field strength at the borders, how can the FCC even measure it? Are they allowed to arbitrarily enter private land to measure field strength?
And realistically, how would they even know you're there?
RFB's take on the "right to have a 20-foot flag pole" sounds like a more reasonable point of view. If putting up a 20-foot pole was the right of every citizen there could be a lot of poles in some places.
Also, if the feds allowed a 20-foot pole they would REQUIRE that a flag be hoisted a certain amount of the time. They would not allow flagless poles.
They might also specify that the pole be metal, and maybe we would want our pole to be wood or fiberglass with the antenna attached.
They do not need a strong signal from your TX sitting in the middle of a 100 acre plot and that signal never reaches the boundaries of that 100 acre plot.
They have directional antennas with a good amount of gain and incredibly sensitive receivers to play with. They will find your signal without having to step onto the property at all.
But if the signal is not even reaching the outer boundaries of your property...then that pretty much eliminates any threat of a complaint from someone..they wont hear anything anyway to complain about!
But even with that, the rule is the rule..250uV @ 3 meters. If the FCC sees it necessary to go onto your property, they can and will and do not have to ask you ahead of time. They are acting under official authority to conduct an investigation, which that right there gives them the right to enter your property.
RFB