Nationwide HOA Approvals and Antenna Zoning For the Radio Amateur

by Greyline Performance 3月 27, 2019

Hello Ham Radio Friends,

Requesting radio antenna HOA approval stories! Please share and let's get our friends back on the radio waves with us!

Do you have any HOA approval stories of your ham radio antenna that you can share with our radio community?

Please send us an email. Thank you.

We're looking for a few good HOA success stories that point out the basic process and approach taken to gain approval for your antenna in the HOA deed restricted neighborhood. This would be so helpful to our community at large.

Let's help our radio community to see how reasonably simple it is to gain approval and get back on the air.

Offering a Ham Radio service to our peers is an honor and is so fun for us. We hear from 'all types' as we are a large global fraternity of ham radio operators. That said, we receive colorful and often times very funny emails from the WWW that poke fun at the DX Flagpole and the idea some need an approval to put up a DX Flagpole in an HOA community. Deed restrictions are present all over the world and yet our ham radio operator friends are gaining approvals and returning to the airwaves with real DX Confidence.

Do you know someone that could use a boost to get back on the air? Please, pass it on!

Thank you, for the opportunity to serve you in this manner.

The common theme of our day are the stories of people around the world getting back On the Air with a real signal, with a real zest for the hobby once again, some for the first time in 20 or even 30 years!

Did you hear about Bill who replaced his stealth wire loop with a DX Flagpole HF Radio Antenna? Bill is a customer that is likely on his radio right now! He told us about his adventures on the low bands and couldn't be more thrilled to be working his friends literally all around the world once again (and at the time of writing here the conditions are not that great this time of the cycle!) on his Ham Radio with a 20' DX Flagpole Antenna, from his HOA restricted QTH! See Bill's vertical dipole antenna here.

Like what you see? Consider one of our Greyline Performance DX Flagpole Antenna bundle packages for your QTH or consider telling a friend about these No Radial OCF HF antenna systems that get you on All Bands between 80-6M on one pretty vertical dipole, a real Flagpole! Yes, even in your HOA community! Your XYL will know the neighbors see a Flagpole, you'll see a ticket to the Bands.

That reminds me, there is a gentleman now ARRL New England Division Director who wrote the book on "Antenna Zoning for the Radio Amateur" that is helping direct radio ops like us get back on the air again too.

Want to put up a tower and not sure about what's ahead for you or just need a little more security when applying for HOA approval for your DX Flagpole Antenna?

Introducing Fred, K1VR. A snippet from his website that provides even more information on how to find and buy Fred's content-rich book... you'll be glad to have that reference in your library.

Amateur Radio - Antenna Zoning Book

Antenna Zoning for the Radio Amateur
Second Edition

-- By Fred Hopengarten, K1VR

Everything you and your attorney need to know to obtain a permit for your antenna-support system.
What to do when things turn ugly after your antenna system is up.

Don't let the confusing tangle of ordinances and by-laws keep you from installing the antenna you need in order to communicate effectively! In recent years, many cities and towns have enacted ordinances designed mainly to regulate cellular antenna structures. Unfortunately, hams have sometimes been caught in the backlash of regulatory overkill. This book describes proven techniques and strategies that a ham and his or her attorney can use to obtain an antenna-structure permit (also includes material on Canadian law and regulation, by VE6SH). You will learn ways to respond to a wide variety of complaints after the permit has been obtained, if the town, or your neighbors, turn sour.

Antenna Zoning for the Radio Amateur has been updated! The Second Edition, with about 65% new text and 80% new information on the CD, including a whole lot of new ideas on CC&R situations, is available from the ARRL Bookstore (http://www.arrl.org/arrl-store, order no. 1192), or ARRL publication dealers (http://www.arrl.org/arrl-publication-dealers). HRO and Array Solutions have the book in stock, ready to ship.

Let's get you and your friends back on the air again. Please send in your story about how you gained HOA approval for your DX Flagpole Antenna.

We'll see you on the bands very soon!

73 Greyline Performance
www.flagpoleantenna.com

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I am providing my first impression report regarding my 24FT HOA antenna. Installation was easy once I was able to figure out the instructions. The twin lead spacers were missing so I inserted a section of PVC into the lower section to insulate the twin lead. I’m using an IC7300, MFJ 993brt remote tuner, Balun Design, Inc model 117t balun which takes coax as input and twin lead as output. I then feed it through an Array Solutions model AS309H arrestor which takes twin lead as both input and output. With the remote tuner: SWR readings are 1.2 in the cw portion of 40 meters and 1.5 in the ssb portion SWR readings are 1.1 all the way across 20 meters (my favorite band) SWR readings are 1.2 in the cw portion of 15 meters and 1.4 in the ssb portion I am a cw guy and have worked all over Europe and South America as well as New Zealand and am getting very good signal reports. Needless to say, I am very pleased with this antenna so far. It works way better than I expected I haven’t yet had to operate in windy or rainy conditions so there is more to learn. Howard Glassman K4OBC

Great pole, excellent service and communications.

I purchased the pole without the antenna and am very happy with the quality and ease of installation.

Great addition easy install

Added this to my 20ft flagpole for 160 m work. Able to make contacts, looking forward to up the power. Great flagpole!

DX and the Greyline antenna

What a wonderful Antenna I have made contacts in over 50 country's so far in less than three weeks easy to assemble and works.

24' Flagpole does the job.

I purchase a 20’ Flagpole antenna that also included the 4’ extension. I installed the flagpole the end of January here at my home in central Florida. The install was easy with only a couple of small issues that were easily resolved by just thinking things through. I installed the antenna in the back yard in the HOA and have not had any complaints.

The performance of the antenna has been very good. The SWR on most band has been =< 1.5 except the 12 meter band. The SWR is just under 2.0. The DX into Europe and Africa has been good. Have done a lot of FT4 and FT8 with good reports. SSB has been good with good signal reports depending on propagation. All of my contacts have been made on 70 – 100 watts. I am using a SGC 230 tuner mounted at the base of the antenna

Most of my contacts have been 10 MHz – 28 MHZ. I have done some work on 40 meters but not much. Not much of an night owl so I don’t get very much of a change to use the antenna on 40 – 160 meters. The SWR is on these bands is 1.0 – 1.3, so I would expect good performance if I had more power.

At this point in time the only negative I have to report is the flag. It has been flying on most days in 5 to 15 MPH winds. I have taken it down when we had higher winds had exceed the 15 MHP. I noticed this morning the flag was torn and shredded. I took the flag down and noticed the flag was made by Anley and it was manufactured in China. I wouldn’t expect a flag to be in this condition after 3 months. I had USA made flags last over a year flying in much stronger winds that this one.

I'm only giving a 4 because of the flag issue. I will reach out to Greyline to see what they have to say.

We are so glad to hear that your Antenna has FB SWRs from 160-10M and congrats on the great DX! Fun... We buy our flags from several USA companies one of which is Anley, Inc., which is also a US company based in California. We are happy to replace the flag.

US GOV reports 90-days is the expected Flag lifespan. 'The U.S. Government generally expects a nylon or cotton flag to last 90 days based on being flown daily from sunrise to sunset - but not during periods of inclement weather. Tests have shown that, in some cases, a flag flown 24 hours a day will last only one-fourth as long as one flown only during the daylight hours.' - again, happy to help and we will contact you directly for a replacement.

Remember, Ham Radio is fun again, Please pass it on to your friends and family. - 73m Greyline Performance

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