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From: "Juber, Stanley C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> What do you plan to use the repeater for?
I was planning on letting my hospital's Security use it.
I am the radio officer for my hospital, and I know that we never have used MED
frequencies at any of our 3 facilities. We have the HEAR simplex radios, at
155.340 simplex. A competiting hospital (1 mile north of our biggest facility)
is still licensed to use MED frequencies, but I know that they only use one of
the MED frequencies and that's for dispatching their helicopter.
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> The exact
> use for each channel, as well as frequency coordination for these channels,
> must be approved by your state's emergency medical service (EMS) regulatory
> agency - and the EMS regulatory agency must sign off on your application if
> you plan to use the MED frequencies, or other frequencies reserved for
> medical use.
The State of Missouri's EMS agency does not regulate radio frequencies any
longer. Personally, I think that they ought to, but they don't. I will admit
that things
back your way (back east) are far more structured. I did a Google search only on
462.975, and got over 1,000 hits. I found one example of non-EMS, high-powered
licensing in use (oddly enough, for security for a hospital). What was
interesting was
that I also found this frequency in use (low power) at NASCAR racetracks by some
of the NASCAR drivers! But that's a different subject, not going there. :-)
> My point is, that use of the MED channels is highly structured, and you need
> to make sure that what you want to do fits in with your state's plan. The
> folks in charge of your emergency room should be able to tell you which
> agency regulates EMS in your state.
As I said, our state currently has no plan. The biggest cities, Kansas City
and St.
Louis, went ahead and implemented their plans when the MED freq's first came up.
I went ahead and bought it a few days ago, but I haven't had time to check
with the
IAFC for coordination. It'd be interesting to hear what they say.
And I know it's definitely not modern. It was owned by our local ambulance
company, but I don't think it's been turned on in several years.
And, if all else fails, I'll tweak it into a GMRS repeater, or maybe even
down into
the ham band.
_Ray_ KB�STN
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