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- Subject: RB 314 Semantics 4/7
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- TO: ALL ES, CD, AND PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTORS VIA AMATEUR RADIO
- INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CALIFORNIA
- INFO: ALL AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS
- FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES
- (W6SIG@WA6NWE.CA) Ph: 916-262-1600
- 2800 MEADOWVIEW RD., SACRAMENTO, CA 95832
- LANDLINE BBS OPEN TO ALL 916-262-1657
- RACESBUL.314 RELEASE DATE: February 21, 1994
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- Subject: MGT - Semantics 4/7 - Commun. Director & Radio Officer
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- DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS. Until the mid-Seventies this was a
- common title in government circles for the individual in charge
- of public safety communications systems, operation, direction,
- maintenance, procurement, planning and budgets. Then the title
- began to shift to an entirely different occupation -- that of
- public information and public affairs. Thus began the shift in
- semantics from COMMUNICATIONS to TELECOMMUNICATIONS.
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- RADIO OFFICER. There has probably been less confusion over this
- title than any other because it has been in the FCC Rules since
- the 1950's. The Radio Officer is responsible to the civil defense
- director for the RACES program. Some governments make a
- distinction between a Radio Officer and a RACES Radio Officer. A
- Radio Officer is also the RACES officer and is knowledgeable of
- all the public safety communications systems in his or her
- jurisdiction. The radio officer may indeed be employed to be in
- charge of those systems. A RACES Radio Officer, on the other
- hand, is responsible only for the RACES. We encourage the
- recruitment and assignment of a full spectrum radio officer
- whenever possible. To be effective, any radio officer must be
- interested in far more than the four walls, the floor and the
- ceiling of the Emergency Operations Center.
-
- Series authored by Stanly E. Harter, originally titled "From My
- Lookout". Edited for digital transmission. (Continued. Series of
- 7) eom.
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