October 6, 2025 • 11 mins
Discover the latest on the ARRL's Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act with our in-depth breakdown of H.R. 1094 and S. 459. Learn how these bipartisan bills aim to protect ham radio operators' rights against restrictive HOA antenna rules, ensuring vital emergency communications during disasters like hurricanes. We cover the bill's key provisions, ARRL's nationwide grassroots campaign, and why this legislation is crucial for amateur radio enthusiasts. Whether you're a licensed ham or just curious about radio parity, watch now to join the push for passage and safeguard public service radio! #ARRL #HamRadio #HR1094 #S459
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Day twenty five, Day twenty five, thirty days of Ham
Radio Project. We are five days away from the end. Guys.
This has been a wild ride. I've very much enjoyed.
It's been a lot of work. I got up this
morning and I didn't want to record a video. I
think that's the first time that's happened since this series
started out as like ah God, but this is a
good topic today. Today we're going to talk about the
(00:21):
HOA legislation that the ablerel is trying to get passed. First,
I want to say that the best videos I've done
to date, the most popular videos that you guys have
watched to date is the VHF contest station, the two
meter single sideband net that we did on a Wednesday night,
and the APRS video. All of those have been really popular,
(00:43):
which tells me that you guys want to see more
videos like that. Some close runner up. The PODA video
was pretty good, The lighthouse video was pretty good, The
two meter repeater video was pretty good. So we'll do
some more with that as well. All of the new
stuff that I've done, and all of the stuff that
I've been talked about and categorized in different ways it's
really given me a good insight about the new stuff
(01:03):
you guys want to see. So thank you for your support,
Thank you for all you've done. Remember that we are
doing this entire effort to support the A dobleurl Teachers Institute.
Go to a dobleurl dot org forward slash thirty Days
you will see this page right here. You can donate
in honor of or in memory of by using the
drop down memory here. You can sign your name to
(01:25):
it or do it anonymously. And if your company doesn't
employer matching gifts, you can use that right there. But
that's what we're doing. We're trying to support the ABLEL
Teachers Institute to fund the efforts to get teachers up
to Connecticut trained in amateur radio and take amateur radio
back into their classrooms. So today we're going to be
talking about something totally different from the A DOUBLEL. This
(01:46):
is an email that I've got a few days ago,
and I originally I wasn't going to do this as
part of my thirty day videos because I already had
that laid out. I started planning all the topics for
the thirty Days about two months before I hit record
on the first video. This has come up recently. It's
been talked about quite a bit. I've gotten emails from
multiple sources. So the A Double RL is trying to
(02:06):
get an HOA, a HAM friendly HOA bill campaign passed. Okay,
this is sent to me my Steve Lot. He is
my North Texas section manager for A Double ORL, and
it says this can become law if we, as fellow amateurs,
sign the request for it to be so. Read more
here and he gives a link. So I'm not gonna
afford anyone this email, but this is a link to
(02:28):
his own blog spot website and basically this all this
information right here is what he put in the email.
A few minor changes, but basically the same thing. So
I'm going to read this guy this to you, and
I will link to this blog post in the description blow.
You guys can go check that out. I'm not gonna
read the whole thing today, but I'm gonna read part
of it. Change the legal rights of American hams. The
(02:50):
A Double L is focused on reducing legal restraints on
the ability of American amateur radio operators to engage in
the active practice and enjoyment of amateur radio one of
the most insidious and increasing threats to the survival of
amateur radios, our ability to serve our communities as a nation,
as we are required to do by federal regulation. Required
(03:11):
to do by federal regulation. I read that, and I'm like,
is it a requirement. There's verbiage in the HAM radio
licensing that says, yes, we will help in times of
InCom No one's gonna come knocking on your door and say, well,
you didn't help during the tornado last week, so we're
gonna have to inspect your station or take away your license.
It's kind of it's not that way. It's not that way.
So that's a little bit required by federal regulation. Yes,
(03:34):
hams in general are required, but each of us individually,
it's not. It doesn't fall on everyone's shoulders. This is
the proliferation of private land use restrictions that prohibit the
installation of outdoor intennas that sometimes actually deny federally licensed
amateurs from operating from amateur radios, regardless of where their
intendas are located in their attics, hidden en trees, or
mounted to their vehicles. And this is a part that
(03:56):
I This is a part that I heard recently, which
I already kind of knew that, but this articulates it
a little bit better. Federal law since nineteen ninety six
has guaranteed to every American accept US accept amateur raded
operators the right to erect antennas outside are on their
residences for the purpose of TV reception, satellite TV, and
Internet access, wireless internet access, and even wireless internet redistribution. So,
(04:19):
in other words, if you live in an hoa restricted
area kind of out in away from town, and you
don't have good Internet, you're allowed to put up a
tower with a wireless Wi Fi or wireless Internet reception
dish so that you can get Internet to your home.
(04:39):
That's not even in question in most places. I guess
probably all hoas are a little bit different, but there's
a According to what Steve is saying here, federal law
since nineteen ninety six guarantees the right that you can
put up a tower to receive either satellite TV or
internet to your home if you don't have it hardlined,
if you don't have a way to get it hard
lined in and in that regard, m to RADO operators
(05:02):
are not afforded the same right to put up towers
for what we do for emergency communications and whatnot. Now,
some of you have commented on one of my last
two videos saying, where's the interview you did with David Minster?
Where's the interview you did with the AWL CEO. Guys,
I didn't do that. That was Josh. I know both
of our names start with Jay. It's very confusing. So
go out and watch this video on Josh's channel. He
(05:24):
did a live stream interview the other night with David Minster,
CEO of a Doblerel and they talked about this very thing.
They talked about this regulation that restricts amateur radio operators
more than it does people who want to put up
a TV dish or a flag pole or something to
get Internet to their own home. So it's not an
even playing field so far, and this bill is going
(05:45):
to try to fix that problem. This letter goes on
to say, since two thousand and five, federal law has
also guaranteed to every American the right to probably display
the American flag. Despite that right to install vertical poles
in our yard, American radio amateurs are denied the right
to use those vertical flagpoles as vertical intennas. One of
the very first antenna I ever used on a PoTA
(06:08):
activation was a flagpole antenna, the SFP one oz two
intenna from T and zero seven. It's a thirty one
foot flagpole intenda. He even gives you an American flag
to put at the top of the pole if you
want to. And then inside of that fiberglass mast is
an antenna. It's just a vertical wire antenna works great.
I've used it on many activations. I took it to
Costa Rica one time. It was a very good intenna.
You can hide antennas like that certain HOA restricted areas.
(06:32):
Let's move on. We believe the denial to licensed amateur
radio operators of the rights guaranteed to all non amateur
radio licensed American homeowners the right to install antenna's on
land they own is without justifications, should not be permitted.
A few other paragraphs here. We need your help to
pass this legislation. How can you help by sending a
letter to your representative and signator asking that they co
(06:53):
sponsor and support Hr ten ninety four and S four
fifty nine. How can you send these letters? It's easy,
go to send a dash letter dot org Ford slash HOA,
which is this page right here. Now, I've already done this,
already done this. I did this right before this, but
right before I hit record. And all it does is
it says thank you. In fact, I guess I can
(07:14):
do it again. I don't know. So it populate you
put in your call sign, It populates your name address.
That's my mailbox, mailing address, my email address. Right there.
It tells me what my district is. I'm in Texas
State District twenty four. Representative is Beth Van. Beth Van,
Dwayne Douin and Senators John Corwin and another Senators Ted Cruz.
(07:34):
Yay for Ted Cruz. So Bethvan, I forget how to
say her name. She's fairly new. I think John Cornyn
and Ted Cruse have been around a long time. I'm
very familiar with them. So and then you click on
send my letters, click the red button and it comes
back and it says thank you, and it tells me
the call sign has already been submitted to the site
(07:55):
and we'll send them proper representatives. So if you do
it the first time, it's gonna say thank you, we
will send your letter. That's all you got to do.
That's all you got to do is click the red
button and it sends the letters, and then you can
go back in here if you want to, and you
can say, well, what does the letter say? You can
click on this link right here and it will tell
you you can read through this and it talks about
(08:16):
HR ten ninety four and S four fifty nine, and
it auto populates those fields depending on your location. So
one thing that I think it's also important to note
is that you do not have to be an ablel
member to do this. All licensed amateur radio oppertors inside
of the USA should be doing, should be clicking on
(08:37):
these steps, whether you have an HOA or not, Okay,
because in my opinion, now I don't want to get
into a big thing here, but in my opinion, hoa's
were unconstitutional. Yeah, you probably signed a paperwork, you bought
a house in a neighborhood that with an HOA, you
knew it was there beforehand. I get it. I get that, okay.
But at the same time, some neighborhoods in some areas
(08:57):
just don't have any options at all, ext neighborhoods with hoa's.
If my wife and I ever moved to Galveston, which
we've talked about doing. There are very few, if any
neighborhoods down there without an HOA. Okay, but I've lived
in grape Vine for the last twenty two years, in
this neighborhood, in this house and never had a nature AA.
And we don't have people with boats in their yards
and no trailer. We don't have people who mow their
(09:17):
yard to find their car. So we live in a
very nice, pleasant neighborhood. Because inn HA shouldn't have the
right to tell you which you can and can't do
on your own property. So that's where I'm going to
leave that I could get into a whole thing on
that I don't want to do that right now, not
the purpose of this video. But as a licensed amateur
radio operator inside of the United States or anyone with
the US call sign, I highly recommend that you go
(09:39):
out here, follow the links in the description below, send
the letters to the representatives in the House and in
the Senate, and let's get this bill passed so that
we can take away restrictions from amateur radio operators the
way they've already been taken away from people who want
to put up towers for Internet TV and flag Poles.
So that's day twenty five. Thank you for watching this
(09:59):
series so far, and thank you for your donations. Update
as of last night, we are up to five thousand,
forty eight dollars. We broke that five thousand dollars mark. Again,
my goal was thirty thousand dollars, so we're not even
close to that, and I really want to get as
close to that as we can. We've only got five
more days, but I am going to do a live
stream probably the first weekend of October, going to try
to get Steve good game on here. We're going to
(10:21):
do some talking about what more detailed conversations about what
the Teacher's Institute is. So if you're waiting till the
last minute, then okay, that's cool. But thank you to
those who have donated so far, five thousand, forty eight
dollars today with a total of ninety four donors. The
latest donations that we raised one hundred and twenty five
dollars yesterday with three new donors. And the notes from
(10:42):
the notes that were left yesterday was in honor of
myself W nine EGL and my son KQ four ITQ
who got me into all of this. So the son
got his father into it. This was cool, he says Jason,
I observed my seventieth birthday today as I as a
semi new amateur extra operator. I met you, Josh Frank
and many other YouTubers at the twenty twenty five Huntsful Hamfest.
(11:05):
Thank you for the inspiration. Hey, thank you, thanks for donating.
Good to meet you at the hunt Hamfest this year.
Come back next year. It's a fun time at that
PoTA event on the Friday before the Handfest in Huntsville
every year. Really appreciate your support and the note that
you left in the in the donation page. Guys, aburl
dot org forward slash thirty days. We've got five more
(11:25):
days of this twenty six, twenty seven, nine thirty and
it'll wrap up this project. I've had a lot of
fun with this. Looking forward to the next step seventy
three and we will see you guys tomorrow
Day twenty five, Day twenty five, thirty days of Ham
Radio Project. We are five days away from the end. Guys.
This has been a wild ride. I've very much enjoyed.
It's been a lot of work. I got up this
morning and I didn't want to record a video. I
think that's the first time that's happened since this series
started out as like ah God, but this is a
good topic today. Today we're going to talk about the
(00:21):
HOA legislation that the ablerel is trying to get passed. First,
I want to say that the best videos I've done
to date, the most popular videos that you guys have
watched to date is the VHF contest station, the two
meter single sideband net that we did on a Wednesday night,
and the APRS video. All of those have been really popular,
(00:43):
which tells me that you guys want to see more
videos like that. Some close runner up. The PODA video
was pretty good, The lighthouse video was pretty good, The
two meter repeater video was pretty good. So we'll do
some more with that as well. All of the new
stuff that I've done, and all of the stuff that
I've been talked about and categorized in different ways it's
really given me a good insight about the new stuff
(01:03):
you guys want to see. So thank you for your support,
Thank you for all you've done. Remember that we are
doing this entire effort to support the A dobleurl Teachers Institute.
Go to a dobleurl dot org forward slash thirty Days
you will see this page right here. You can donate
in honor of or in memory of by using the
drop down memory here. You can sign your name to
(01:25):
it or do it anonymously. And if your company doesn't
employer matching gifts, you can use that right there. But
that's what we're doing. We're trying to support the ABLEL
Teachers Institute to fund the efforts to get teachers up
to Connecticut trained in amateur radio and take amateur radio
back into their classrooms. So today we're going to be
talking about something totally different from the A DOUBLEL. This
(01:46):
is an email that I've got a few days ago,
and I originally I wasn't going to do this as
part of my thirty day videos because I already had
that laid out. I started planning all the topics for
the thirty Days about two months before I hit record
on the first video. This has come up recently. It's
been talked about quite a bit. I've gotten emails from
multiple sources. So the A Double RL is trying to
(02:06):
get an HOA, a HAM friendly HOA bill campaign passed. Okay,
this is sent to me my Steve Lot. He is
my North Texas section manager for A Double ORL, and
it says this can become law if we, as fellow amateurs,
sign the request for it to be so. Read more
here and he gives a link. So I'm not gonna
afford anyone this email, but this is a link to
(02:28):
his own blog spot website and basically this all this
information right here is what he put in the email.
A few minor changes, but basically the same thing. So
I'm going to read this guy this to you, and
I will link to this blog post in the description blow.
You guys can go check that out. I'm not gonna
read the whole thing today, but I'm gonna read part
of it. Change the legal rights of American hams. The
(02:50):
A Double L is focused on reducing legal restraints on
the ability of American amateur radio operators to engage in
the active practice and enjoyment of amateur radio one of
the most insidious and increasing threats to the survival of
amateur radios, our ability to serve our communities as a nation,
as we are required to do by federal regulation. Required
(03:11):
to do by federal regulation. I read that, and I'm like,
is it a requirement. There's verbiage in the HAM radio
licensing that says, yes, we will help in times of
InCom No one's gonna come knocking on your door and say, well,
you didn't help during the tornado last week, so we're
gonna have to inspect your station or take away your license.
It's kind of it's not that way. It's not that way.
So that's a little bit required by federal regulation. Yes,
(03:34):
hams in general are required, but each of us individually,
it's not. It doesn't fall on everyone's shoulders. This is
the proliferation of private land use restrictions that prohibit the
installation of outdoor intennas that sometimes actually deny federally licensed
amateurs from operating from amateur radios, regardless of where their
intendas are located in their attics, hidden en trees, or
mounted to their vehicles. And this is a part that
(03:56):
I This is a part that I heard recently, which
I already kind of knew that, but this articulates it
a little bit better. Federal law since nineteen ninety six
has guaranteed to every American accept US accept amateur raded
operators the right to erect antennas outside are on their
residences for the purpose of TV reception, satellite TV, and
Internet access, wireless internet access, and even wireless internet redistribution. So,
(04:19):
in other words, if you live in an hoa restricted
area kind of out in away from town, and you
don't have good Internet, you're allowed to put up a
tower with a wireless Wi Fi or wireless Internet reception
dish so that you can get Internet to your home.
(04:39):
That's not even in question in most places. I guess
probably all hoas are a little bit different, but there's
a According to what Steve is saying here, federal law
since nineteen ninety six guarantees the right that you can
put up a tower to receive either satellite TV or
internet to your home if you don't have it hardlined,
if you don't have a way to get it hard
lined in and in that regard, m to RADO operators
(05:02):
are not afforded the same right to put up towers
for what we do for emergency communications and whatnot. Now,
some of you have commented on one of my last
two videos saying, where's the interview you did with David Minster?
Where's the interview you did with the AWL CEO. Guys,
I didn't do that. That was Josh. I know both
of our names start with Jay. It's very confusing. So
go out and watch this video on Josh's channel. He
(05:24):
did a live stream interview the other night with David Minster,
CEO of a Doblerel and they talked about this very thing.
They talked about this regulation that restricts amateur radio operators
more than it does people who want to put up
a TV dish or a flag pole or something to
get Internet to their own home. So it's not an
even playing field so far, and this bill is going
(05:45):
to try to fix that problem. This letter goes on
to say, since two thousand and five, federal law has
also guaranteed to every American the right to probably display
the American flag. Despite that right to install vertical poles
in our yard, American radio amateurs are denied the right
to use those vertical flagpoles as vertical intennas. One of
the very first antenna I ever used on a PoTA
(06:08):
activation was a flagpole antenna, the SFP one oz two
intenna from T and zero seven. It's a thirty one
foot flagpole intenda. He even gives you an American flag
to put at the top of the pole if you
want to. And then inside of that fiberglass mast is
an antenna. It's just a vertical wire antenna works great.
I've used it on many activations. I took it to
Costa Rica one time. It was a very good intenna.
You can hide antennas like that certain HOA restricted areas.
(06:32):
Let's move on. We believe the denial to licensed amateur
radio operators of the rights guaranteed to all non amateur
radio licensed American homeowners the right to install antenna's on
land they own is without justifications, should not be permitted.
A few other paragraphs here. We need your help to
pass this legislation. How can you help by sending a
letter to your representative and signator asking that they co
(06:53):
sponsor and support Hr ten ninety four and S four
fifty nine. How can you send these letters? It's easy,
go to send a dash letter dot org Ford slash HOA,
which is this page right here. Now, I've already done this,
already done this. I did this right before this, but
right before I hit record. And all it does is
it says thank you. In fact, I guess I can
(07:14):
do it again. I don't know. So it populate you
put in your call sign, It populates your name address.
That's my mailbox, mailing address, my email address. Right there.
It tells me what my district is. I'm in Texas
State District twenty four. Representative is Beth Van. Beth Van,
Dwayne Douin and Senators John Corwin and another Senators Ted Cruz.
(07:34):
Yay for Ted Cruz. So Bethvan, I forget how to
say her name. She's fairly new. I think John Cornyn
and Ted Cruse have been around a long time. I'm
very familiar with them. So and then you click on
send my letters, click the red button and it comes
back and it says thank you, and it tells me
the call sign has already been submitted to the site
(07:55):
and we'll send them proper representatives. So if you do
it the first time, it's gonna say thank you, we
will send your letter. That's all you got to do.
That's all you got to do is click the red
button and it sends the letters, and then you can
go back in here if you want to, and you
can say, well, what does the letter say? You can
click on this link right here and it will tell
you you can read through this and it talks about
(08:16):
HR ten ninety four and S four fifty nine, and
it auto populates those fields depending on your location. So
one thing that I think it's also important to note
is that you do not have to be an ablel
member to do this. All licensed amateur radio oppertors inside
of the USA should be doing, should be clicking on
(08:37):
these steps, whether you have an HOA or not, Okay,
because in my opinion, now I don't want to get
into a big thing here, but in my opinion, hoa's
were unconstitutional. Yeah, you probably signed a paperwork, you bought
a house in a neighborhood that with an HOA, you
knew it was there beforehand. I get it. I get that, okay.
But at the same time, some neighborhoods in some areas
(08:57):
just don't have any options at all, ext neighborhoods with hoa's.
If my wife and I ever moved to Galveston, which
we've talked about doing. There are very few, if any
neighborhoods down there without an HOA. Okay, but I've lived
in grape Vine for the last twenty two years, in
this neighborhood, in this house and never had a nature AA.
And we don't have people with boats in their yards
and no trailer. We don't have people who mow their
(09:17):
yard to find their car. So we live in a
very nice, pleasant neighborhood. Because inn HA shouldn't have the
right to tell you which you can and can't do
on your own property. So that's where I'm going to
leave that I could get into a whole thing on
that I don't want to do that right now, not
the purpose of this video. But as a licensed amateur
radio operator inside of the United States or anyone with
the US call sign, I highly recommend that you go
(09:39):
out here, follow the links in the description below, send
the letters to the representatives in the House and in
the Senate, and let's get this bill passed so that
we can take away restrictions from amateur radio operators the
way they've already been taken away from people who want
to put up towers for Internet TV and flag Poles.
So that's day twenty five. Thank you for watching this
(09:59):
series so far, and thank you for your donations. Update
as of last night, we are up to five thousand,
forty eight dollars. We broke that five thousand dollars mark. Again,
my goal was thirty thousand dollars, so we're not even
close to that, and I really want to get as
close to that as we can. We've only got five
more days, but I am going to do a live
stream probably the first weekend of October, going to try
to get Steve good game on here. We're going to
(10:21):
do some talking about what more detailed conversations about what
the Teacher's Institute is. So if you're waiting till the
last minute, then okay, that's cool. But thank you to
those who have donated so far, five thousand, forty eight
dollars today with a total of ninety four donors. The
latest donations that we raised one hundred and twenty five
dollars yesterday with three new donors. And the notes from
(10:42):
the notes that were left yesterday was in honor of
myself W nine EGL and my son KQ four ITQ
who got me into all of this. So the son
got his father into it. This was cool, he says Jason,
I observed my seventieth birthday today as I as a
semi new amateur extra operator. I met you, Josh Frank
and many other YouTubers at the twenty twenty five Huntsful Hamfest.
(11:05):
Thank you for the inspiration. Hey, thank you, thanks for donating.
Good to meet you at the hunt Hamfest this year.
Come back next year. It's a fun time at that
PoTA event on the Friday before the Handfest in Huntsville
every year. Really appreciate your support and the note that
you left in the in the donation page. Guys, aburl
dot org forward slash thirty days. We've got five more
(11:25):
days of this twenty six, twenty seven, nine thirty and
it'll wrap up this project. I've had a lot of
fun with this. Looking forward to the next step seventy
three and we will see you guys tomorrow
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