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Msgid: $RACESBUL.233
TO: ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES/OFFICES VIA THE ARS
INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CA (ALLCA: OFFICIAL)
ALL AMATEURS U.S. (@ USA: INFORMATION)
FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6HIR @ WA6NWE.CA)
2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832 (916)427-4281
RACESBUL.233 DATE: Aug. 3, 1992
SUBJECT: OPS - Must a radio operator own a radio station?
No, not necessarily. The enrolled communications volunteer
(RACES, CAP, etc.) can expect to work at the government-provided
site in many instances. The equipment at the EOC, and possibly
at alternate EOC's, may be provided and owned by the local juris-
diction as a means of saying "thank you" to local hams as well as
assuring a permanent installation of the same equipment.
RACES is based on the criteria that the station is serving a
government function/need at a government site, not a home of one
of the volunteers. In such cases it should be obvious that a
member-owned station is not relevant, except possibly as a source
of back-up to the EOC if its equipment fails. An exception is
where there is no local EOC and the jurisdiction authorizes a
station as an EOC alternate until such time as the jurisdiction
can activate its own EOC.
What is more important than a communications volunteer
having a station is the skill and talent of the person and how
those abilities can be best utilized at the local level.
Of course there are certain types of field operations that
cannot be accomplished without member-owned radio equipment.
Examples include emergency portable packet, fly-away digipeaters,
portable repeaters, mobile and hand-held units of all kinds. Few
jurisdictions have the funding for such a breadth of equipment so
must rely on the people in the RACES unit, the ARES, the Civil
Air Patrol, and possibly the MARS for support and help in these
needs out and away from the government communications center. In
other instances local government has yet to acquire equipment so
must rely upon temporary or permanent volunteered or donated
equipment. But, as you can see, a volunteer can be quite active
without owning any personal communications equipment.
EOM