[Ares-races] RE: ARES-RACES Digest, Vol 14, Issue 3

[Mike (KA5CVH) Urich]

On 7/24/05, Dave Colter <dbcolter at adelphia.net> wrote:

> Does the ruling apply to EMA "contractor" radio ops who operate both state
> radios and Amateur radio? It is part time, on-call work - not a regular
> daily job.

Mike wrote

That's sort of how Transtar http://www.houstontranstar.org/ in Houston
handles it too.  They have a few hams that are employees too down
there and the ham radios are always on and all the radio ops for the
various agencies including the traffic reporters "kinda" listen in on
a couple of "certain" repeaters.  If they hear something they want to
know more about they get one of the hams to swing by and get on the
air for a couple of minutes.

I office out of the house <and my car> and during a big drill a couple
of years ago I operated as a "Liaison <relay> Station" for three
different nets and was able to sit here and get caught up on paper
work that day and got paid for it too!  Now I wasn't on the air a lot
but needed to be "monitoring" two repeaters and one simplex frequency
the entire day.  This doesn't meet the standard of being financially
compensated.

--
Mike Urich, KA5CVH
http://ka5cvh.com