First thing Mal, I did not "hammer" you either publicly, or privately.
I specifically decided to "take the high road" with my comment, and not point
out how incredibly *wrong* you are with this from several perspectives.
The rule is the rule.
"? 97.403 Safety of life and protection of property.
No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur station of any means
of radiocommunication at its disposal to provide essential communication needs
in connection with the immediate safety of human life and immediate protection
of property when normal communication systems are not available."
The phrase "any means of radiocommunication" says it all.
In plain english, if someone tells you they have an emergency, you have an
emergency. Anything goes in the case of an emergency.
As one on the receiving end of the situation, you have no right to determine
whether or not it's legit, or whether the guy has a cell phone he chooses to
use or not.
I'd be more afraid of the guy suing me for not doing something to help.
Mal, you're just dead wrong on this one. Sheesh.
73,
N5NJ
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From: N7MAL <N7MAL@CITLINK.NET>
Date: Wed Mar 30 12:51:32 CST 2005
To: Bob Naumann <n5nj@gte.net>, cq-contest@contesting.com
Cc: superberthaguy@adelphia.net, "\"Bryan W5KFT\"" <w5kft@nts-online.net>,
tom@klient.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Real emergencies
I have been hammered pretty well both publicly and privately by a great number
of 'jail-house' lawyers. I would like to suggest, in the most positive manner,
when you attempt to quote a rule, to make a point, you need to read all the
words in the rule and not just the words that you like."? 97.403 Safety of life
and protection of property.
............when normal communication systems are not available."I have
traveled extensively in the State of Ohio and there are many forms of "normal"
communications available to motorists traveling the inter-state road system.
Cell phone coverage is excellent, call-boxes are everywhere, every truck stop
monitors CB trucker frequencies. As to the comment "following an arcane rule",
Part 97 is neither secretive, mysterious, or out-dated. In fact it is fairly
easy to understand, considering it was written by lawyers, and is up-dated as
required. The chaos that exists today on 27 mhz and the reason there are
truckers polluting 10 meters is because those people refuse to be bound rules
and regulations. Amateur Radio is better than that, the rules governing Amateur
Radio, and our ability to follow the rules, is what sets us apart and far above
the 27mhz crowd.W3TX mentioned he had a similar incident. No he didn't his
communication was legal, it was with another Amateur Radio station. W5KFT's
incident was 100% illegal by every possible definition.
MAL N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Naumann To:
cq-contest@contesting.com Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 13:32 Subject:
Re: [CQ-Contest] Real emergencies
What Bryan reported that he did was right - period.
Someone contacted him and stated it was an emergency.
The FCC Rules Say:
"? 97.403 Safety of life and protection of property.
No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur station of any
means of radiocommunication at its disposal to provide essential
communication
needs in connection with the immediate safety of human life and immediate
protection of property when normal communication systems are
not available."
73.
N5NJ
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