This has come up before, and I've also seen it come up in other groups. The "anything goes in an emergency" crowd cannot be convinced that there are virtually always consequences for their proposed actions, no matter what the FCC says. Hopefully the thread will die out soon; in the meantime some of the opinions expressed are pretty funny.
Richard www.n7tgb.net The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money --Margaret Thatcher _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Besemer (WM4B) Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 12:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: A warning to Land Mobile Radio Dealers Kinda wandering off repeaters here, arent we? Mike WM4B From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew Kaufman Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2010 3:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: A warning to Land Mobile Radio Dealers Brian Raker wrote: > > > §97.111 Authorized transmissions. > (a) An amateur station may transmit the following types of two-way > communications: > ... > (3) Transmissions necessary to exchange messages with a station in > another > FCC-regulated service while providing emergency communications; > > Yes, we are allowed to do so only while providing emergency > communications. It's up to us to determine (hopefully with a good > helping of common sense) what is an emergency. Actually that's pretty easy. See 97.403 and 97.405. Matthew Kaufman
