edders

Thanks for posting the particular rule. I was aware of this and tried to pass it on earlier but did not go back and look up the FCC ruling.

We purchased a nice new home in Vegas about seven years ago. The HOA claimed we could put up a Sat Dish ONLY if it was out of sight and that no other antennas at all were allowed. I was mostly interested in a good long range FM antenna, their attorney interpreted the rule to mean that we were allowed a TV antenna but not a FM antenna...like there is really a difference there. We pointed out that many of the Sat Dish's installed in that development had the ubiquitous little radio shack loop antennas at the top which could be used for receiving TV AND FM. They had to concede the point and while we won the battle it stirred up such a fuss in the community we wound up dropping the idea and getting Satellite Radio. It's not pleasant to have people claim their property will fall 50k because I put up a single FM antenna. Some people hollered that we were trying to drive the property values down...reason unstated! The darned part of it is ... that there are NO, I repeat, NO new developments in Vegas without the exact same HOA ban on antennas, legal or not! And in our case, due to a bad title company, we were not given the HOA rules until the hour of signing...OK I RANTED ENOUGH

Anyway...it is hard to deal with HOA's even when the rules are on the books. It takes a lot of work to win. You might have to develop a very hard shell.

Ed