[srmanuel]

I was sort of forced into it, I live in a neighborhood with a HOA, I didn’t want to fight them, so whenever I want to operate, I setup in driveway and get on the air.

Depending on the conditions I can get Europe on occasion, but routinely get up and down the eastern seaboard and into the Caribbean, I live in NE Florida, so I’m good with that, especially without a more elaborate antenna.

[Rodm]

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[backwoods-engineer]

Lived in an HOA for 5 years. Had an HF antenna almost the whole time. An insulated-wire dipole along the peak of the roof, with the coax coming in through the roof vent. Worked many foreign countries with it. Neighbors never knew. I told them when I was moving out. They were surprised.

[PUGACHEV]

I live in Northern Virginia, where the courts have strictly limited HOAs to the language in their DCCRs. My HOA bans “roof top antennas”, so I installed three sloping inverted V Double Bazooka antennas from the 3rd story window to my fence posts below. Not being on the roof, these antennas are not within the HOA’s restrictions.

I am very lucky in how my antennas are configured: the “V” slopes from East to West and they sit above a layer of marine clay. On 20 meters with 100 Watts, I can boom into Europe from Spain to Scandinavia and the Middle East, and from Nova Scotia to Brazil and as far west as Texas.