Sure it is. If you have a *genuine* emergency, you can go around the rules. Do you honestly think that the FCC is going to come down on you if you are directly dealing with a crisis, and didn't obey some rule, in order to better facilitate helping the situation?
--STeve Andre' wb8wsf en82 On Tuesday 30 September 2008 12:46:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > and in an emergency, out-of-band operation is permitted, > right? NO > > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Dave Gomberg wrote: > > At 02:24 9/30/2008, Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote: > > Why not run more repeater offset ? The further away you are the more > > isolation you have - and it's free. > > Here in SoCal we have a special portable 2m repeater pair coordinated > > - it's 144.93 out, and 147.585 in. That's over 2.5 mhz of offset, and > > you can get just over 3 mhz if you use 147.99 as your input. > > This brings up a very interesting point. IN A GENUINE EMERGENCY, > why not run a huge split, say 145.000 input, 175.000 output. I > realize the output is out of band, but MARS mods are widely > available, and in an emergency, out-of-band operation is permitted, > right? One would want to preselect a frequency where interference > with other emergency use is least likely, I also realize that not > all HTs have a wide-band receive capability, but lots do.
