No John, the rules 97.113 DOES NOT prevent you from talking on the radio while you are working. You just can't operate the radio on behalf of your employer. I work from home 5 days a week, and talk on the radio from time to time while sitting at my desk, but I don't do it to benefit my business.
73 Brian On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:13 PM, John Coleman <[email protected]> wrote: > Opps: Sorry Bob I did not mean to send that directly to you and only you. > > Here it is again for all with a little more added: > > I hope I'm not opening a can of worms here! > > OK, I think I see the dilemma now, I must say I have mixed emotions here. > I > see the necessity but I can also see where it could start a trend. > > I'll need to mull this over a little. > > I always thought that Hams who worked for anything like a law enforcement > or > fire and rescue could do what was needed in the way of training to better > serve the public but I guess their hands were tied during working hours > unless they had a separate volunteer to push the microphone button for > them. > > Is this prevention currently enforced to prevent commercial use of amateur > radio? How does it? > > I would assume that a policeman taking part in a drill, on police time, > would use his own call letters would not solicit for the police department. > > I have been on the job many times driving around town doing my regular job > on a wage and have been known to use the repeaters and 40 years ago even > check into the old central gulf coast hurricane net once or twice. When > did > all that become against the law? > > So part of me wonders if additional regulation is even necessary. Where is > the law they might or I have been in the past breaking? > > Still undecided > John > ______________________________________________________________ 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
