[PHX-Skywarn] Re: [WX7PHX] New SKYWARN radio

Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:18:10 -0700

Lee -

You won't be "operating" outside of your license
in an emergency situation (and SkyWarn is deemed
an "emergency" communication, during ANY SkyWarn situation), according to 
the following:

[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
>From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR97.403]

[Page 591-592]

                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION

                         COMMISSION (CONTINUED)

PART 97--AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE--Table of Contents

    Subpart E--Providing Emergency Communications

Sec. 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.
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Lee - I have been informed by local ARES/RACES/MARS/SkyWarn that (ONLY) the 
above covers ANY transmission/communication on ANY band (without regard to 
the operator's license).

73,

Stan
KC7CJS - For Ham Radio bio - see: http://www.qrz.com/detail/KC7CJS

----Original Message Follows----
From: [email protected]
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: "Phx SkyWarn" <[email protected]>
Subject: [PHX-Skywarn] Re: [WX7PHX] New SKYWARN radio
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:52:11 -0700

In looking over my original post regarding the new SkyWarn radio, which may 
be found below, I see nothing in it about any intent to operate outside my 
license privleges under *NORMAL* circumstances or any implication that my 
participation in MARS should give me any right to operate on the HF ham 
bands.

What it does ask is what should we do in case we needed to switch to HF 
during an emergency. The part about my being a MARS operater has nothing to 
do with SkyWarn but rather I mention it as being a reason for
having an HF rig with a no-code license.

So why am I getting a diatribe on this list about illegal operation on HF?
I know full well what my priveliges are and I don't need someone I don't 
know telling me what I'm supposed to do.

The only reply I need to see is from Steve or Allen is what we should do in 
the unlikely event that we should need to switch to HF.

I don't need noise about illegal operation of radios which is information I 
have know since before I was licensed.

Lee Levine
Phoenix, Az.

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Got a question about using HF for SkyWarn.
I and a few other spotters are No-Code Technicians.
If we needed to switch to say 40 Meters for our net would we be able to 
transmit on HF or would that be only during a storm?  As a MARS operator, I 
have a rig that does HF though I can only operate on MARS frequencies during 
traffic nets.

I seem to recall that in an emergency we're supposed to be able to transmit 
on any necessary ham frequency and any storm that would force us to switch 
to HF would be
rather severe an thereby create an emergency.  Not that HF is all that great 
during a thunderstorm.

Lee MAA-064
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Lee Levine
Phoenix, Az

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