Help pass legislation to eliminate HOA prohibitions on Amateur Radio antennas

Sep 19, 2025 | Amateur Radio, ARRL

For All Amateur Radio Operators:

Your action is needed to help amateur radio operators that are in HOAs who can’t set up antenna. ARRL makes it easy to contact your elected representatives in Washington and tell them that we want them to support H.R. 1094 and S. 459. These are bills that give us the right to erect amateur antennas outside or on our residences.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

Send a letter to each of your Congressional Representatives and your Senators. It’s easy to send your letters! See more below.
Is my individual letter important? YES — Representatives and Senators rely on constituent input to decide which bills to support. Your voice counts. 

BACKGROUND

The ARRL has successfully obtained Congressional support — both in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate — to introduce legislation that, if passed, will eliminate HOA/private land use restrictions that prohibit Amateur Radio operators from installing antennas at their residence.

WHAT ARE THE BILLS?

• U.S. House: H.R. 1094
  Introduced by August Pfluger (R-TX) and Joe Courtney (D-CT)
• U.S. Senate: S. 459
  Introduced by Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)

HOW DO I SEND MY LETTERS?

• Click this link: https://send-a-letter.org/hoa/
• Enter your call sign
  Your address, zip code and email address will automatically be filled in
• If any part of your information is incorrect, please update it
• When you are finished—click on the SEND button to send your letters 

The history on this issue:

“Federal law — since 1996 — has guaranteed to every American — except Amateur Radio Operators — the right to erect antennas outside or on their residences for the purpose of TV reception, satellite TV and internet access, wireless internet access, and even wireless internet redistribution. But Amateur Radio operators are denied the equal right to erect comparable antennas.”

“To eliminate these private land use restrictions, the ARRL has worked over the past several years with our elected officials to draft Congressional legislation — H.R. 1094 in the U.S. House of Representatives and S. 459 in the U.S. Senate — that, when passed will extend to all Hams the right to operate from their homes and the right to install antennas on the land they own. We have bipartisan support for this legislation”