[Mldxcc] [NCCC] ARRL Pacific Division Leadership Meeting

[Tyler Laursen]

While going through radio recommendations and reviews for my website, I
have found a few BaoFeng radios on amazon that are marketed, and even
listed as GMRS and MURS radios. They even come preloaded with channels...
but they don't have a part 95 grant. And, upon closer inspection, some of
them are even coming pre loaded with frequencies in police bands, medical
bands, and others. I have since taken them off of my website because of it.

Unfortunately, the off road community is a little to blame for the misuse
of some of the 140 and 440 frequencies. Which is one of the main things I
am trying to change by properly educating them about Ham vs MURS vs GMRS vs
CB vs FRS and why it is important to follow the proper rules and protocols
for those services. Most of it is due to lack of knowledge about how
frequencies work, combined with distributors and manufacturers not giving
proper information on what frequencies their preloaded channels are set to.

It's a work in progress... the more we can spread the word about it and
educate, the better.


On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Alan Maenchen <ad6e at arrl.net> wrote:

> Thanks Bob!
>
> Evidently the program is in jeopardy. There will be no more OOs until
> something changes but I don't really know why. I've heard of some serious
> problems in Las Vegas area where OOs might really help. Specifically,
> non-ham use of the 144 and 440 MHz band and also using repeaters by
> non-hams for commercial use. Might be a result of all the cheap Baofang HTs
> on the market that have some common repeater frequencies pre-loaded. I
> don't know the details.
>
> 73, Alan  AD6E
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Robert Hess <w1rh at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> For what it's worth, I'm the Sacramento Valley Section OO Coordinator.
>>
>> Bob
>> W1RH
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Chris Tate - N6WM <ctate at ewnetinc.com>
>> *To:* Alan Maenchen <ad6e at arrl.net>
>> *Cc:* MLDXCC <mldxcc at contesting.com>; NCCC <nccc at contesting.com>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 5, 2017 7:55 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [NCCC] [Mldxcc] ARRL Pacific Division Leadership Meeting
>>
>> They did mention the OO program, in flux currently, where no new
>> appointments are being made right now, but existing OOs still out there
>> continue to focus on education and doing their reports..  both bad and good
>>
>> Thanks
>> ~C.
>>
>>
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Tyler Laursen
Technical Representative - NorCal
Wilson Sporting Goods
(559) 300-0144
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