[CW] Radio without antennas

[D. Chester]

>   One other possibility is joining a local HAM club * that has a clubhouse 
> or
> talking a local HAM club into getting a clubhouse, filled with equipment 
> and
> antennas.
> * possibly a contest group that you can operate when there is no contest
> -- 
>    Ron  KA4INM

I hear complaints about antenna restrictions ever more frequently. 
Fortunately I live in the country with some acreage, so I can put up all the 
towers and wire antennas I desire, and there is no-one to tell me what I can 
and can't erect on my own property.  To me if I "owned" property but had to 
live under all those nit-picking  restrictions, I would essentially be a 
tenant, not a landowner. The only restrictions I face here is that I have to 
keep my antennas out of the way of the farmer I lease cropland to.

Regarding the ham club,  I'm not sure if it is still the situation in 
present day Russia or not, but in the old Soviet Union, amateur radio 
operation was almost entirely connected to radio clubs.  Very few Soviet 
amateurs were able to have stations in their homes.  The local club had a 
clubhouse with equipment and antennas, and the operators used the club 
station's facilities under their own operator licence.  If the antenna 
restrictions we have in the US to-day continue to increase in their 
pervasiveness, that may be the future for amateur operation in this country.

Don k4kyv