Our home owner association is currently deconstructing the landscape with most of the trees reduced to firewood. One of those trees more or less hide my vertical antenna from the common area visual impact. Instead, with the loss of natural camouflage, nearly 25 feet of naked aluminium stood out like really bad modern art. My vertical is horizontal as we await the the new landscape.
I understand Newington has engaged Washington specifically the Federal Communication Commission about antenna regulation in communities such as mine and contracts between individuals living in such communities. This particular issue, at least in my mind, is about contract law and not about emergency communication capability. However, you cannot keep a good ham radio operator down and I have Buddipole to bridge my antenna gap.
I'm reading a lot about magnetic loops inside apartments and inside attics. The new antenna location on the first floor terrace may not and is not ideal although part of the hobby is adapting to change. I have a chunk of the Pacific Ocean to point the Buddipole toward its radio horizon. Who knows what outcome will follow given this challenge while living inside my home owner association agreement?
Life is wireless.