ARRL Members Needed to Help with CC&R Effort
September 17, 2001 -- Have you ever been denied the ability to put up an antenna, or to operate a radio transmitter, or had any other restriction on your Amateur Radio activities because you live in a housing development or condominium complex governed by private land use regulations? (These are often referred to by lawyers and real estate professionals as CC&Rs.) As a result of requests from members, the ARRL Board of Directors, at its July meeting, adopted a goal of trying for legislative action that helps overcome the unreasonable restrictions of CC&Rs that prohibit or restrict Amateur Radio antennas.
Like any other telecommunications issue, this one, upon closer inspection turns out to quite entangled with many issues affecting a wide range of commercial telecommunications services. These include wire-line telephone, cellular and PCS phones, and over-the-air-receiving-devices, all seasoned by the politically hot-pepper issue of private property rights, and, of course, a great deal of confusion on Capitol Hill over the whole thing.
In order to build awareness in Congress that CC&Rs really have become a problem for many in the Amateur Radio community, and to backstop our efforts to meet with elected representatives and their staff on Capitol Hill, letters from ARRL members to their representatives have become increasingly important. In the meantime, we continue to prowl the halls of Congress in search of supporters!
If you are affected by a CC&R, or know someone in your Congressional district who is, and you want to help out, please adapt our sample letter to your own situation and consider sending it to your member of Congress. By the time you read this, there will be a sample of the letter on ARRLWeb to save you some time. If you decide to write to your member of Congress, it would help ARRL's Office of Legislative Affairs to receive a copy of the letter you send. To find your Senator's mailing address check the following URL: http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index.cfm. To find your Representative's, check this URL: http://www.house.gov/writerep/.
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