[Motorola] Link Freqs?

[Eric Lemmon]

That is very interesting information!  Perhaps I am behind the times, if
the National organization is deferring the technical stuff to the
chapters.

My statements were based upon my personal experiences with my local
chaper in Santa Barbara County, CA.  I was going to set up a base
station on 47.42, along with a VHF or UHF link to another chapter, but I
got hammered big-time by the Red Cross national office rep for
"meddling" in his system.  I also checked a number of current FCC
licenses for Red Cross stations around the country, and all of them had
John K. Perry as the point of contact.

It worries me that individual chapters might now be "doing their own
thing" with radio frequencies, since one of the fundamental concepts on
which the ANRC is based is that workers from all over the country can
converge on a disaster site with radios that will all work together, on
the same frequencies.  How can this interoperability be maintained with
locally-determined link frequencies?

It's been a while since I worked ANRC communications, and I guess it
shows!

73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY

tvnews wrote:
> 
> Okay and thank you,
> 
> I didn't know national was now doing all the licensing for the chapter.  About
> 30 years ago they handled our 47.42 license but when we later licensed on
> 47.46 they told us to do it ourselves. Then later I worked via APCO to license
> a 866 Mhz repeater. The 866 required a lot of work on my part and we had to
> have an engineering study to plot the coverage area and again Nation told us
> to handel it ourselves but that was about 15 years ago.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Eric Lemmon wrote:
> 
> > Your local chapter should not be concerned about finding a frequency.
> > Simply contact the national communications coordinator for the Red
> > Cross, advise him of your local chapter's needs, and let him and his
> > staff handle the details.
> >
> > Please contact John K. Perry, American National Red Cross, 8111
> > Gatehouse Road, Falls Church VA 22042.  Phone is 703-206-8628.  John
> > Perry handles FCC licensing and frequency assignments for ALL Red Cross
> > chapters, nationwide.
> >
> > 73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
> >
> > tvnews wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not sure which list to ask my question on. I appoligze for crosspost
> > > this question.
> > >
> > > My Local Red Cross chapter would like to switch from a dc remote system
> > > to control a low band base station to a radio link. The tech part should
> > > be basic but the freqs and licensing lead me to you. Does anyone know if
> > > their are low power UHF splinter fewqs available for linking? If so does
> > > anyone have experience licensing them?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
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