[Ares-races] Paid vs volunteer radio operators

[Bill]

I never mentioned M.A.R.S.. I was one of the ham operators and all of the operation was in the ham frequencies with
individual call signs. Much of Goldwater's activities was on MARS frequencies, but a ham license was required to have a
M.A.R.S. operation and still is. K2USA is one of the few remaining. The point is there is no consistency with what the
government does. We had our radio club meeting of the Ft Hood Amateur radio Club at a M.A.R.S. station located at
Killeen, Base, TX. It had to co-exist with a ham station.

Just another point: I have been on the staff of a hospital for 40 years. That does not make me an employee. Patients or
a third party pay the doctor not the hospital. I'm sure some doctors maybe employees of a hospital.

If the time should come I will use my ham radio and asked for forgiveness later.capable of posting them there.

Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Hampton" <rlhampton@adelphia.net>
To: "Bill" <n4ws@multipro.com>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Ares-races] Paid vs volunteer radio operators


Bill wrote:

> Rick,
>
> It appears that all those phone patches from military bases and ships that were common  years ago were illegal. Not
> because of the phone patch, but because the ham operators were on active duty, employees of the US Government and
> operating government owned  equipment located on  military bases, ships and aircraft. They were all over the ham
bands.
> I know for a fact that the ham operators running phone patches from the hospital ships out of the South China Sea were
> not off duty. There are many other analogies.
>
> W3USS was located in the Senate Office Building.
>
> http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2044/#top
>
>  I wonder if Bill Cross would have told Barry Goldwater he could not operate this station.
>
> Bill

No, Bill, I think not.  Those operations are perfectly legal under the rules for the Military Affiliate Radio System
(M.A.R.S.), which is a DoD sponsored military operation, not a civilian operation like amateur radio.  M.A.R.S.
operation
also allows for things like operation outside of frequencies allocated for amateur operations.  In fact, these
frequencies
are military frequencies.  You even have to use a different, M.A.R.S. issued call.  Two different services with two
different sets of rules.  M.A.R.S. is not Amateur Radio is not M.A.R.S.

Rick