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Actual audio from an ARES meeting

lol....the whole 'em-comm fantasy' is what turned me off of amateur radio.
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I thought that call was familiar. Next time I see him, I'll remind him to renew.

Heard about this through the local grapevine.

I'll have to point a few folks in the direction of that audio file.

reply to burner50
lmao...I love it!! Sounds familiar. Wonder if that was from the old Firesign Theater folks, or was that the muppets.

On second thought I think its the ARES group out of Charlottesville, Va.(damn losers)
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I hate to say this, but ARES/Skywarn in our area has just about broke our radio club. Not just younger hams leaving, but oldtimers as well. One fine example is a recent drop out took a VE license holder away. It is sad but they are glorified CB'ers

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Same thing here. I told the local ARES group to piss off when they tried to butt in on setting up the station for the hospital.

We won't be using the station for emcomm, unless it's absolutely necessary. It is being used to teach radio classes for veterans and middle/high school students. They wanted to take over its' operation, and we told them we run our own shop and go to hell.

"Loophole"???

Hospitals are setting up ham radio stations specifically to back up their own stuff. To me, this goes against the noncommercial nature of the service since it is being used to provide business continuity to a commercial entity.

The FCC tried to clamp down on the practice of hospital stations by citing 97.113 but gave a small concession after the American Hospital Association complained.

»ecfsdocs.fcc.gov/filings/2010/04···555.html

Paying employees to operate ham radio is just wrong on so many levels. Exceptions were given to further amateur radio's stated purposes - which is why astronauts and teachers can legally operate radio on the clock and be paid for it - but the hospital exemption goes a bit too far, IMO. I wish the FCC had stuck to its guns.

Hospitals need to be using part 90 equipment, not ham radio.

Ok, understood.

I don't follow these things very closely, so I wasn't sure what you meant.
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