The insurance required by most commercial site managers is liability insurance to cover injuries, damages, and lost revenue that could be caused by a Ham repeater. It has nothing to do with covering the replacement of your equipment. One of the local 2m repeaters in my area is on land owned by a petroleum company, and that company's legal beagles require at least $2 million of liability coverage, which costs about $350 per year. That mentality began years ago when a cheap Amateur antenna was sloppily installed at a site and later fell, taking out a couple of antennas belonging to paying customers, and they were very unhappy with that situation. The Ham was kicked off the site, and the bad feelings against Amateur repeaters still exist- and we all are still paying for that "bad apple's" poor judgment.
73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laryn Lohman Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Repeater Insurance? --- In [email protected] <mailto:Repeater-Builder%40yahoogroups.com> , "NORM KNAPP" <nkn...@...> wrote: > > Our insurance in our club consists of lots of spare parts and back-ups. Ours too. With cheep/free GE and Motorola radios, and a few used DB224s also cheep/free, we're good and money ahead. Laryn K8TVZ
