The Ham Radio Parity Act Unanimously Passed By US House (arrl.org)

This week the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed "The Ham Radio Parity Act" -- a huge victory for grass-roots advocates of amateur radio. Slashdot reader bobbied reports: This will allow for the reasonable accommodation of amateur radio antennas in many places where they are currently prohibited by homeowner associations or private land use restrictions... If this bill passes the Senate, we will be one step closer to allowing amateur radio operators, who provide emergency communications services, the right to erect reasonable antenna structures in places where they cannot do so now.
The national ham radio association is now urging supporters to contact their Senators through a special web page. "This is not just a feel-good bill," said representative Joe Courtney, remembering how Hurricane Sandy brought down the power grid, and "we saw all the advanced communications we take for granted...completely fall by the wayside."

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Chimneys, satellite TV or ISP dishes, HDTV antennas, wind vanes, flag poles, roof-mounted security lights, rain gutter systems, skylights, solar panels.

You forgot these things we should also get rid of, just to be fair.

But not the lawn jockeys. I love the lawn jockeys and garden gnomes. They can stay. ]

I especially hate the roof-mounted security lights. I lived in a neighborhood with zero crime. I mean, the place was stupidly safe, because a Chicago alderman and the chancellor of the University of Illinois lived on the block and we were two blocks from the police academy, so there were constant police patrols, and even an unmarked at the end of the alley behind the chancellor's house. But one of my neighbors still had to put up one of the motion-controlled security lights because he was a jagoff. I verified he was a jagoff because he had a sign on his door that said, "This house protected by Smith & Wesson", even though nothing and nobody was ever going to threaten the sanctity of his house. I mean, I'm all for responsible gun ownership, and I'm a gun owner myself, but to put a sign up to announce it just means you're a raging asshole, which is his right as an American (Trump 2016). Anyway, I'd be walking the dog at night and coming home down the alley and his fucking klieg light would go on, blinding me and scaring the ever-loving shit out of my dog. I lived in the neighborhood for 25 years before this guy and his klieg light and Smith & Wesson sign moved in. All of a sudden he's got to make the place unpleasant. Fuck him. I hope on Halloween he goes out in black face and brings a gun and one of the cops in the neighborhood shoots him, thinking he's guilty of actually being black.