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They hounded this guys flea powered station off the air. (this makes you want to tar & feather HOA busy-bodies and neiborhood squealers!!!)
They hounded this guys flea powered station off the air. (this makes you want to tar & feather HOA busy-bodies and neiborhood squealers!!!)
Oh, btw: someone is Hosting and maintaining J. Smicks Part 15 Master List 🙂
http://home.earthlink.net/~tocobagadx/flortis.html
100.7 MHz (LPR) “WJND-LP MegaMix 100.7”, Ocala; according to their website (see also 95.3, 95.9 and 96.3 MHz “MegaMix entries). Note: a licensed WJND-LP now reportedly on this channel. Update via the Ocala.com, written by Christopher Currry and posted there on November 6, 2007: James Dispoto played dance and Top 40 tunes on MegaMix 100.7, the low-power FM radio station he operated from his home. Dispoto didn’t get the county regulatory approval he needed to run the station and erect a tall radio tower. An appellate court has sided with the county. There was a time when perhaps the highest point in the High Pointe neighborhood southeast of Ocala was a radio tower in the Dispoto family’s backyard. Starting in 2003, the tower broadcast the signal of MegaMix 100.7, a low-power FM radio station that played dance and Top 40 music. James Dispoto, who went by the on-air moniker “DJ New York,” was the station manager and main disc jockey. After complaints from some neighbors along Southeast 60th Street, a battle ensued with Marion County. The county prohibits the operation of radio stations in residential neighborhoods without a special use permit and the construction of a radio tower in excess of 50 feet without required zoning approval. The family previously said the tower stood at 100 feet; the county estimated it stood 130 feet high. The Dispotos’ argument was that, because James Dispoto’s mother, Elaine, has an amateur radio license, county officials would violate Federal Communications Commission regulations if they ordered the tower down. The tower is down, the radio station is silent, and the legal battle has played on. But on Friday, the county scored another win. In a 3-0 ruling, a panel of judges from the 5th District Court of Appeal upheld the temporary injunction that a circuit judge had issued ordering the Dispotos to take down the tower. The appeals panel rejected the argument that the county violated an FCC regulation “requiring state and local governments to make reasonable accommodations for antenna structures related to amateur service communications.” The opinion said FCC regulations “gave no specific height below which a local government may not regulate” and provided no detail about what state and local governments had to do to make “reasonable accommodations.” The ruling also said the FCC does not require local governments to make any accommodations if a residential neighborhood’s covenants and restrictions prohibit ham radio antennas. That is the case in the Dispotos’ neighborhood for any antenna that “extended more than 10 feet above the building it served,” according to the ruling. Elaine and James Dispoto declined comment Monday. They said they did not know the appeals court had issued a decision and had not had a chance to talk with their attorney. Marion County zoning director Mike May could not be reached for comment.
Total posts : 45366What was he needing a 100 foot tower for? Part15? I think not! He must have been a pirate.If you choose to live where there is a CC&R against antennas,you are doomed! Even a ham license and PRB-1 cant help you there because you signed away those privelages when you bought your home in that community. I’d say he got was was due him. Even if it was a licensed low power FM,it does not belong in a residential neighborhood. Zoning laws are there to protect the public,you and me,from having to deal with undesirable conditions. A 100 foot tower would require at least a 100 foot backset from adjoining properties and all structures for the safety fall zone,I doubt he had that luxury. What if I put a junkyard or truck terminal next door to your house? You wouldnt have it. Why should they?
Regards,Lee
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Total posts : 45366HOA’s should have a requirement that any of these so called deed restrictions can not be any strictor than what the local planning board has. there is a difference between a 100ft ham tower and a 200ft cell tower, truck stop, or junk yard. and this need to be looked at since most states now require that all new developements have a HOA to save the taxpayers the maintenance burden of the roads, grounds and utilites infrastructure.
Every time i see a pinko commie HOA complaining about 16ft flag poles, because some ham has figured out how to hide an HF verticle inside the mast. I get pissed.
The USA has been sold to globalism and corporations. Johnny Q public has no more rights unless he has the financial backing to buy those rights.
There may even be a deeper darker purpose for HOA’s.
Granted the 100ft tower is a little over the top, but they got shut down for running a radio station in a residential area, not the tower. Which can be applied to Mr. JQP running his/her Hamilton Rangemaster.
This is my little peive. I see this as the slippery slope into communism in the name of property values. We have no deed restrictions here in glen gardner, and let me tell you, it has done absolutely zero to hurt property values.
Every time I see this type of stuff, I will let people know. Hopefully the Amerikan Sheeple will wake up to what is going on and finally tell the politions we have had enough.
Thank You,
Rev. Robert P. Chrysafis
Universal Life Ministries
http://www.ulc.orgModerator Hunterdonfree
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Total posts : 45366HOAs here are not required by civil governments, at least not here. They exist because the original property developer established them before the property was developed and established design and usage rules. The deed covenants were then passed on to the subsequent owners (including the builders). There is no advantage to a taxing authority since the roads remain public and the city maintains them and provides all the usual city services. Your comments about saving money might apply to so called private communities with undedicated streets but they do not apply to a neighborhood simply because they have a HOA.
There is a big difference between HOAs and “communism” in that the HOAs are not state institutions and no one is forced to purchase property and reside in a HOA neighborhood against their will.
Many believe HOAs protect or add to property values. Right or wrong, it is up to the individual to make that determination and choice when purchasing the property. Why is it a surprise when a person agrees to the covenants and restrictions upon purchase and then finds something they don’t like in the restrictions? They complain about infringement of their property rights when they knew in advance about the restrictions and agreed to them. This complaining does not wash with me.
If a person doesn’t believe that their word is their bond and does not like the restrictions then they should purchase elsewhere.
Neil
Total posts : 45366The town he lives in offered him space for his antenna and transmitter on one of the town’s towers, water tower, or something like that. He tried to hide behind his mother’s amateur radio license to defend the tower construction, and I didn’t notice extra antennas on the tower in a picture I saw. The tower was, I believe, the original infraction the town went after him for. Running a radio station in a residential neighborhood was insurance.
There were some other details, too, but I can’t recall off-hand what they were. He lost all my sympathy once I heard all the facts.
I know he wasn’t running Part 15, but the coverage from a tower-mounted Part 15 FM transmitter would be helped by being located atop a 100′ tower, wouldn’t it? 🙂
Chris
Total posts : 45366Well if he was offered a suitable alternative by the town and he is still putting up a fuss then he is just being a nimrod.
I go off when i here about busy body neibors and HOA’s. This crap is popping up every where around herer at an excellerated rate. they are paving over every bit of farmland they can to squeeze in these busy body cackling hens and SUV driving Socker moms while forcing their illegal immigrant slave force into a row of three apartment complexes who stack them up to 20 to a 1br apartment and pay them at or below minimum wage.
At the rate they are going in ten years you will have a choice HOA, HOA, or HOA or Rental Units.
And the neibors are PC. they won’t Nark on the immigrants or the muslims, but god forbid you put up a basketball hoop or an antenna or a flagpole with an american flag on it.
They will be stepping all over each other to turn you in.
And you can’t tell me any more that this is not going on. Read the news. not the watered down drivel from fox, but the uncensored, trust worthy news sources found on the net.
and i have lived near busy body neibors who were so far up my rectal cavity that i could not fart with out getting the cops called all because i lived with a black woman and we had kids together.
So yes to neil this crap really burns me up. I see you ten years from now and see if you still feel the same in your beleifs.
I hope this stuff reaches a critical mass and the amerikan sheeple wake up and finally decide they don’t want this crap any more and decide to take their country back.
I’m going to shut up because i will ramble on and pi$$ a lot of the PC crowd off.
Mods DON’T delete this please. it’s about time somebody has the jewels to air this in public and that we gets some debate on the subject.
Thank You,
Rev. Robert P. Chrysafis
Universal Life Ministries
http://www.ulc.orgModerator Hunterdonfree
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Total posts : 45366Rev.,
From your post, I believe I understand and share your concerns and frustrations about the expanding encroachment on personal liberty and freedom. But I think I should, at least in this thread, stay on the topic of HOAs keeping in mind their possible effect on part 15 operators regarding antennas.
I live in the largest metropolitan area of Ohio and am well aware of the loss of farm and rural land to “sprawl”. There’s a saying here that “People move to the country to get away from the city and they bring the city with them.”. I have lived in rural, urban, and suburban areas so I know well the characteristics of each. When population density is low (rural) one’s activities have little impact on one’s neighbors, but as the density increases and people live closer together some activities (hunting for example) need to be restricted to ensure harmony and safety. I would prefer to live in the rural areas but I was constrained to suburbia with its HOA due to practicalities of my travel to work. Here’s my key point: I felt constrained to live here but it was my choice and I knew from the start that there were restrictions and for the most part I felt they were to my benefit. They were in place before I moved here as opposed to being imposed on me after the fact, I agreed to be bound by them, and they have not in any way prevented me from using my land to suite my purposes. Also, township zoning boards do restrict land use in rural areas so it is everywhere.
You may well be correct regarding sprawl and choices as you look ahead ten years and God willing you and I will be here then to compare notes.
I would ask you if you are now included in a HOA or perhaps you are reacting to the loss of personal choice and liberty in general and see the HOA restrictions as another tool for this? Concerning your mention of my beliefs, I do oppose more restrictive laws which limit freedom and have been active both with time and money to fight this, but HOAs are really low on my list of threats.
Neil
Total posts : 45366I wholeheartedly agree with you, Reverend. I hate HOA’s with a passion. I know they ALL aren’t bad, but it’s the bad ones that get the press. 🙂 It’s not right that someone else can dicatate everything you can or can’t do with your property. Luckily I don’t live in an HOA-governed area. I received a letter from a real-estate in the area about 3 or 4 years ago. The real-estate agent is also a ham, and in his letter said that he could assist in locating ham-friendly properties. I kept that letter and contacted him a year later when my wife and I were ready to purchase our first home. That real-estate agent is now a good friend. He was able to obtain written permission for another ham to erect a tower at a condo he wanted to purchase!!! I would call that an accomplishment.
I operate casually here and there, but certainly not on a regular basis. Although I could get away with installing whatever I want on my property or in my yard, I choose to keep things fairly stealth and low-key. My only antenna, at this time, is a full-wave loop that is up around 30 feet. I installed it while my neighbors were on vacation. 🙂 I get along just fine with my neighbors; I just like to maintain a low profile. The 450 ohm window line is visible from the front yard this time of year with no foliage in the trees, but you still have to kind of look up there for it. It’s completely visible from the back yard all year round. Nobody has mentioned it. Nobody has said anything to me about it, so I am completely unaware of any interference I might be causing. I do know, however, that I haven’t interfered with ANYTHING in my own home since installing the loop antenna.
I ordered an AMT3000 transmitter yesterday. I planned on building the base-loaded antenna and install everything on my roof, but I am seriously considering putting up a tilt-over mast at the back of my property just to keep with the stealth “theme”. I’m going to start another thread about what I want to do and ask for input.
Chris
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