wrong Even If a police officer is not on Duty. They are still On Call 24/7 and Hold Peace officer status. In most states they still Hold POLICE OFFICER Status 24/7..They can only act as Leaison between Amateur stations and the communications of a civil Emergency. Even If they hold an amateur license. They cannot communicate as a ham in a drill or Net They can Be at the control point, and advise the operators. My local police Department Built a New OEM. they got FEMA funding and Purchased alot of Amateur radio Gear , and installed it.. However There is not One single police Officer that is a licensed Amateur to use it. During a tour of the facility I asked If there were any Hams in the PD or OEM to operate the Gear. The Police chief and the Head of the PD Communications Claim I Quote." WE are Police Officers and Office Of emergency management, and In an Emergency. We dont need to Be licensed to use this equipment."
This was 7 years ago. To this day there is still no hams in the PD or OEM But they still insist they can use the gear during an Emergency. BTW I own and Trustee the County OEM Repeaters on 2,220,440 and 6 meters They tried to Pull a simulated Emergency drill One night on My 440 machine with HT's they gave out to Patrol officers. and wanted To Press Charges against me For interfering with their drill when I shut down the Repeater. The County backed me up. Neal- KA2CAF/W2CJA --- On Tue, 1/19/10, Bob Peters <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Bob Peters <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AMRadio] OT : Paid Hams during Drills > To: "'Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service'" > <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 4:27 PM > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
