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- Msgid: $RACESBUL.233
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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