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Ham-Policy Digest           Sat, 11 Dec 93       Volume 93 : Issue  521

Today's Topics:
                    ARRL's callsign admin position
                    Can my wife transmit? (2 msgs)
                The 10-meters band - No CW required ?
               W5YI's coverage of "temporary callsigns"

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policies or positions of any party.  Your mileage may vary.  So there.
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Date: 10 Dec 93 11:50:59 GMT
From: ogicse!uwm.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!panix![e-mail]
Subject: ARRL's callsign admin position
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,
>
>I can agree to some of what you said. United front and all. But before
>the ARRL desides what _all_ amateurs want, maybe they could come out of
>the board room and ask a few of us?


Maybe your division's director doesn't "come out of the board room", but
here in the Hudson Division we have a director who is responsive to the
membership -- and available.

Steve Mendelsohn, WA2DHF, travels throught the division, attending club
meetings and hamfests.  He's always asking for opinions on matters he
expects to come before the board, and asks for fresh ideas to bring to the
rest of the board.

Steve also has an active division "cabinet" made up of all division-level
appointees, SMs, section-level appointees, and selected others.  Before
each ARRL board meeting he holds a division cabinet meeting to determine
the position of the division.  Quite a number of ARRL Board policies come
from these meetings, as Steve brings *into* the boardroom the desires and
opinions of the membership in the Hudson Division.

If your director isn't as accessible and active as Steve then vote in
someone else!

73, Andy
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        ______________________ Andrew Funk, KB7UV ______________________
       |     President, Tri-State Amateur Repeater Council  (TSARC)     |
       | ENG Editor/Microwave Control, WCBS-TV Channel 2 News, New York |
       | Internet: [e-mail]      Packet: kb7uv@kb7uv.#nli.ny.usa |

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Date: 10 Dec 1993 15:14:30 -0500
From: newshub.nosc.mil!crash!news.sprintlink.net!clark.net!clark.net![e-mail]
Subject: Can my wife transmit?
To: [e-mail]

[e-mail] (Mark Monninger) writes:

>In article <[e-mail]> kevin.jessup
><[e-mail]> writes:
>>  ... stuff about wife & kid in threatening situation...


If you are looking for answers to questions in order to justify the
purchase of a mobile rig for the purpose of providing emergency
communication, you are probably trying to skirt the issue.

In my case, my wife is smart enough to take the test and get the license
so she can enjoy the other aspects of amateur radio.

If you only need emergency communication gear, buy a cb and call on
channel 9.  If you you want to have a mobile ham rig in your wife's car
for your own usage, buy it.  If she needs it in that rare instance, she
will have it to use.

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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1993 21:31:55 GMT
From: telesoft![e-mail]
Subject: Can my wife transmit?
To: [e-mail]

In <[e-mail]> kevin.jessup
   <[e-mail]> writes:
>My wife and 4-year-old son are on a not-so-well traveled highway between
>cities.  She has car trouble....
>She fires up my 50 Watt 2-meter ...
>She transmits, asks for help, and the sheriff soon arrives and rescues
>them.

>Will she be fined for transmitting on amateur bands without a licence?

There is a general rule of thumb that I use in this kind of circumstance.
If you had a phone and for whatever reasons, it could only call 911, would
you use it?  If she thought the circumstances were such that it would have
been reasonable to call 911 and you expect the 911 dispatchers would not
tell you that you should be calling the non-emergency number, then I think
it is reasonable for her to use the 2M radio (based on Part 97.403).

Having spent a "ride-along" shift on the 911 console at the San Diego
Sheriff's Department, I think that they were to receive a call from someone
in the situation you describe, they would do their best to help out, either
by dispatching a tow truck, a deputy or the CHP depending on where the call
came from.

That's my $0.02.
--GaryM
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Gary Morris KK6YB             Internet: [e-mail]
San Diego, CA USA             Phone:    [phone] x128 (work)

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Date: 10 Dec 93 10:29:53 GMT
From: ogicse!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu![e-mail]
Subject: The 10-meters band - No CW required ?
To: [e-mail]

In article <2e9efb$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
>
>  Hi there.
>
>  There is a rumor (actually more than that) saying that the 10-meters band,
> being underused and beginning to be polluted by CB Dxers, will soon be allowed
> to no-CW licencees. Did you hear about this ?
>
>  Vince (no callsign yet, to be defined round Feb.)
>
> --
>  PSG Vainqueurs de la coupe de France 1982, 1983, 1993
>  PSG Champions de France 1985/86  1/2 Finaliste C3: 1993
>  PSG    PARIS SAINT GERMAIN FC --- NOTRE HISTOIRE DEVIENDRA LEGENDE.

Unfortunately, this isn't going to happen anytime soon, because of the foolish
WARC Treaty stating any amateurs operating below 30 MHz have to have knowledge
of Morse code.  True, this would probably be a good thing, but I guess this
weekend we'll see just how much fun 10 mtrs can be, since this weekend is the
big 10 meter contest.  Hope to see you on the airwaves someday!

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1 day until upgrade! (Tech Plus and Possibly General)

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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 93 13:59:20 GMT
From: mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!nyx![e-mail]
Subject: W5YI's coverage of "temporary callsigns"
To: [e-mail]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Michael P. Deignan <[e-mail]> wrote:
>[e-mail] writes:
>> You can't do it this way.  (HINT:  Ever wonder why /AT isn't used for
>> technician upgrades?)
>No, I'm clueless. Why isn't /AT used for tech upgrades?

Because, apparently, the FCC thinks that the suffixes used for temporary
privilege designators must fall within the callsign blocks assigned to the US;
AT isn't one. (Hence, /KT.) I don't know why they think that, but...
--
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
[e-mail]      | adequately be explained by stupidity.
    "The road to Usenet is littered with dead horses." -- Jack Hamilton

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Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1993 09:16:14 -0700
From: ftpbox!mothost!schbbs!node_13059.aieg.mot.com![e-mail]
To: [e-mail]

References <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject : Re: ARRL's callsign admin position

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
(Gary Coffman) wrote:

> Yes the ARRL
> purports to represent *all* amateurs, but in reality they are mainly
> representative of the DXers, contesters, and ARES types who depend on
> the ARRL to manage their activities.

I have been an ARRL member since 1961 and only a DXer for 10 of those
years.  Otherwise I have never belonged to one of those groups.

> ARRL currently has the only full time paid lobbyist in Washington, but it
> was not always so. Wayne's old alternate organization had the first paid
> lobbyist, and all the other major bodies have at least part time volunteer
> representation in Washington. I believe I heard that NARA intends to
> register a full time lobbyist too.

When some other organization actually *does* the representing as well as
ARRL then they won't be the *only* representative.  Until then it is just
talk.

I only hope that whoever else does the "representing" doesn't get into an
ARRL fabours it so we oppose it stance - the net result would not be good
for anyone.

> >Such as? (Wayne Green is an oft-cited example, but if he's the best you can
> >come up with, you simply don't have a case: he's consistently predicted doom
> >and gloom, and been consistently wrong. He's no more than the Howard Stern of
> >ham magazines.)

I agree.

> The ARRL's attack on SERA is the latest example of their efforts to
> stifle other organizations who they think stand in their way. Their
> attacks on Wayne have been long standing, and dirty, but that's not
> all they've done to try to retain hegemony over amateur radio.

Really??? Can you point out *anything* that the ARRL has actually done or
said to support this?  I have heard a continuous stream of such accusations
since 1961, but have yet to see one that actually existed.

On the other hand Wayne Greene, SERA, LARC etc. have been *very* vocal
about their supposed persecution.

This seems to go on for about 18 months then go away quitely, only to be
replaced with some other horrible thing that ARRL has supposedly done.


> Even
> inside the ARRL, the old guard has done everything in their power to
> stifle dissent among the troops. The directors and the volunteers
> form a strong "old boy" network that squelches dissent with a vengence.

That certainly hasn't been my experience.  Even when I wasn't an "old boy"
:-)



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