[ARRL-OK] [SPAM]Re: [OKtraders] Fwd: Special Notice on HR4969 September 2014

[Billie Walsh]

On 09/05/2014 10:26 AM, DC Boyer dc_boyer at yahoo.com [OKtraders] wrote:
> But, as several have pointed out, like my home in a neighborhood with 
> a HOA, I can just leave if I don't like it :)

Even if your stuck with an HOA you can still enjoy the hobby. My friend 
that turned his attic into a faraday cage lives on a large lot with some 
nice big trees on the back side so he strung a longwire through the 
trees. I've heard of people that used a wire fence as an antenna. 
Probably one of the strangest I ever heard of was someone that tapped 
into a tree and used the tree for an antenna. I guess it could work if 
the sap was up. Metal gutters on the house.

Where there's a will, there's a way. Hams are supposed to be 
resourceful. Remember, with a tuner to keep your radios finals happy 
just about anything metal can be used. In one of the FEMA EMI classes I 
went to with another ham the instructor made a big point of commenting 
that he was delighted to see ham radio operators in the class. He told a 
story about how a ham had saved an exercise that was about to collapse 
when standard communications went down. He said that no matter what hams 
would get the message through. The "first responders" that were in the 
class had given us a look when we came in but after his comments they 
didn't consider us such outsiders.

Actually, where theres a will I want to be in it. But, that's another story.

-- 

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must. like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.-Thomas Paine

_ _...  ..._ _
_._  ._  .....  ._..  ...  .._