Brian on this one I kinda got to disagree with you. Here in Mesquite our Fire Chief and our Manager of preparedness are both Hams and by current FCC regs are not allowed to participate in any of our RACES or ARES drills or nets. All this new proposal does is allow them to participate in these events or in a case of an emergency participate in there command center. As the rules are now written they cannot pick up an Amateur Radio mic in any type of drill... All of our drills now are held at lunch hour when they are not working or after duty time... We also have 3 police officers in the same situation... This is not commercialization of Ham Radio at all...
Very Best 73's, Bob W1PE Mesquite,TX http://www.w1pe.com http://www.myhamshack.com/W1PE/ Blog -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of WA5AM Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 3:00 PM To: [email protected]; Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service Subject: Re: [AMRadio] OT : Paid Hams during Drills John, They are wanting it to be legal for say, a ham who works for a hospital, or an EMT, cop, etc., to be able to participate in emergency drills on ham radio on behalf of their employer WHILE BEING PAID, on the clock! This is the start of the commercialization of amateur radio. Apparently just what the ARRL wants. 73 Brian / wa5am On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:44 PM, John Coleman <[email protected]> wrote: > I am a little confused here, as to what would be changed. > > 1. Are Hams presently not permitted to participate in these preparedness > and > drills > Or > 2. Are they not permitted on behalf of their employer. > > 3. Or, are you saying that an employer can request, as part of your job > description and pay grade, that you participate. > > The ARRL info, on that page, is very vague on this (as usual) as there does > not seem to be any other info about it on the web page, or did I just not > see it among all the BS. > > John, WA5BXO > > __________________________________________________ ____________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] t/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
