mch wrote:
> I know lots of hams who have EmCom vehicles under their own authority.
> You don't need permission to put one together. You only need permission
> of a PS agency to put transmit in an authorized radio, but the radios
> never came into play here - just the antennas.
I know some of the same crowd. The question remains though.... Why? Who
benefits?? The agencies? Can you truly imagine a scenario where an
incident commander turns to an assistant, and says, "Better call Joe
Schmo, he and his 1978 Crown Vic have the only remaining police radio
left in the county, We'll all die unless he can get here and transmit
for us?" The only person who benefits is the guy that gets to drive
around with 27 antennas on his vehicle thinking he looks cool to someone
who doesn't know any better... Kinda like our guy with the Chevy that
started all of this..
> I have about 7 antennas
> on my vehicle - 10M/33 MHz, 6M/46 MHz, VHF/2M, UHF/440, 800, scanner
> (another HD VHF quarter wave), Cellular, and AM/FM. All are authorized
> either under my ham license or a local emergency center, a biz license,
> or are RX only.
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> (getting a bit off of this topic) I also have a lightbar and related
> lights (all authorized under PA law and registered with the PA State
> Police). But, I also have a badge to go with the rest of the package.
Now we're talking.... You actually are who you are representing to be...
The guy with the Chevy apparently is not. That's why he got the
ticket... This is not an apples to apples comparison...
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> My vehicle serves many purposes, obviously. (ham mobile, business
> mobile, and a few PS uses)
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> The only real difference is that I'm not active above 1.2 GHz (YET), and
> my vehicle is not a Crown Vic. (and I don't drive it in NC)
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> I wouldn't mind getting a Crown Vic, though, as I don't care to let my
> present vehicle idle at a scene for hours on end. It's not built for it
> - Crown Vics are (at least the P71s are).
Why would you need to? Aren't there any "real" cop cars that can sit and
idle for hours on end where you live? At $2.25 or so per gallon of gas,
I would not care to let my car sit and idle for hours on end, especially
if I was driving a Vic as my POV.
Careful.... your slip is showing.. :-) Mike
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>>As for building a vehicle to be used by emergency or county officials in
>>case of an emergency..... I wonder who's authority he was building this
>>vehicle under?
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