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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
My doorman informed me that our building doesn't allow satellite tv. So that fucking blows. Directv needs to have a big dish on top of the building that everyone can just hook into instead of these individual dishes. It's just logistically impossible to put them all on the roof and the building would never agree to mounting them outside your window.
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Your doorman, and your building, has fuck-all to say about it. The FCC has enacted regs that preclude condo and homeowners' associations from enacting or enforcing certain rules inhibiting the installation of OTA reception devices of one meter or less in diameter. In 1999, it clarified that the rule applies to rental property, to the extent you wish to install the dish on any portion of the property to which you have exclusive access, such as any balcony or patio. Of course, you can't force the landlord to let you install it on common areas like the roof or to drill through the exterior walls of the building, but if you tell em you're putting it on the patio, em (1) can't stop you; and (2) might agree to a roof or wall installation for aesthetic reasons once em realizes em can't stop you.
There's an FCC fact sheet on the issue
here.
So if your homeowners' association or landlord tells you that you can't have a dish, tell them to blow you. Tell them to Blow You for America. {March out whistling patriotic tune, a la Eric Stratton.}
Edited to change "him"s to "em"s. Patriotism knows no gender.
