Bob, Don't forget these agencies you mentioned have their OWN communication equipment, bought and paid for by the public via taxes. That is why volunteer hams have been used for decades to provide communication via ham radio at or near these agencies. Amateur radio has served the public VERY well for decades in emergency communications, and has always been on a volunteer basis. Why does this need changing now?? Are hams allowed to conduct drills on the police or fire bands? Not that I'm aware of.
Why do the public service agencies need our ham frequencies now? If we allow people to be paid money for operating ham radio, we are losing the very threads the founding fathers of amateur radio and the ARRL stood for. What will be next? Dollars for working contests? During an actual emergency of life or death, anyone, including the Fire Chief can operate ANY radio, ham or otherwise... 73 Brian On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Bob Peters <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]%0at/> > 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 > -- Brian Sherrod, PA My website: "Arkansas Airwaves" - http://arkansasairwaves.net Email : [email protected] "The better I get to know some people, the more I find myself loving dogs." --- Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. 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