In NC the General Assembly wrote the law to take advantage of local enforcement
of Part 95 to include a part that says that if the suspect has a FCC license of any kind, hands off.  

Happy Holidaze!

73 de Ronnie

If it is a drug unit that is using these portables in the 143 MHz range, it could make sense.  
Here in NC, both the CAP and the NCArNG use their air assets to
spot MJ patches in the wild and
communicate with LEOs on the ground in these and other frequency ranges.

73 de Ronnie

In your case it would depend on what the SOFA says about ham radio.  
In some cases, the host nation issues ham licenses and in others, the US DOD
issues licenses.   Check with the J-6 at CENTCOM
he/she (not the pervert kind) should know or beable to find out.

Well, the NETCOM CG, the MACOM for MARS, authorized
it a number of years ago.   I don't know the situation
in DE, but often deployed MARS members work with
Northern Cmd and various ArNG units when deployed
in disater situations.  So maybe they do it out
of habit.

At any rate, there is nothing wrong with it,
the USAF and USCG Auxilaries wear uniforms, too.
That is all that I was pointing out.

73 de Ronnie

Gary, the uniforms that MARS members wear are
the approved "civilian uniforms" that
the Army likes the non military folks to
wear when participating with troops in
the field.   It has the persons last name over
the right pocket, the organization over the
left pocket (DAC, MARS, DODC, Boeing, FNC
or whatever) and the US triangle that
complies with the Geneva Conventions
ID rules for camp followers
either on the left shoulder or over the
left pocket.  It is also worn on headgear
and outerwear, excepting foul weather gear.
It is in the ARs.

If you are getting USAR retirement points
for MARS activity, then the Army wants you to
wear the uniform.  They DA-1380 used to state
that and may still.  I don't know about the USAFR.

73 de Ronnie

Captain, me thinks that you  mean Part 97
equipment vice part 95.

73 de Ronnie

I have two, well, XYL has one of them, that receive
47 to 54 MHz outta the box.   They only transmit in the
Six Meter Band though.

73 de Ronnie

FEMA is now under DHS which supports RACES
through grants to buy the radio equipment.

In NC, our ARES structure and RACES
structure are parallel.  That is the
SEC is the State RO, County EC is the
County RO, etc.   Our organization
mirrors the State organization and
every State position has an EC on
his/her staff as RO.

73 de Ronnie

Yes, professional usually means doing a
good job.  You want that type of person
in any volunteer endeavor, be it EMCOMM,
VFD, VRS, Auxillary Police, etc.

I have a real problem with the "I'm just
a volunteer, so don't bug me about how
I perform" mentality.  You should in
any endeavor, strive to be as professional
as the paid folks.

I say this being a retired paid LEO, a VFD
officer, a volunteer EMT on a VRS and
an auxillary police officer at various
times in my life.

73 de Ronnie

I should have added that a fixed station
is also called a Land Station.

73 de Ronnie

As a general rule, a fixed station is
just what it says, a portable station may be
moved from place to place, but not operated in
route and a mobile station is one that can operate
in motion or stopped.

An Aeronatical Mobile is one outside the
airspace of any country and a Maritime mobile
is one that is not in the territorial waters
of any country.

Hope that helps.

73 de Ronnie

You might explain your probem to some adult
hams and they can tell their state legislators.

The Republic of Texas' legislature just passed
a law the prohibits schools from not allowing
licensed hams to have their radios at school.

73 de Ronnie

I think that it would have been after WWI started.
Before then, hams just made up calls that were
"registered" with the Department of the Navy.
Commerce did not get into licensing hams until
 sometime after the 1914 start of the war.

I think that I'm remebering my history correctly,
but I forgotten more than I ever knew.  :-(

73 de Ronnie

Lon, the Army takes folks at 18 and
at 17, with parents written consent.
Army MARS used to take folks at 14,
I joined the day I was 14.  However,
the emphasis no longer is on preparing
youth for their military stint. So,
it mirrors the USAREC standards.

73 de Ronnie
SMAR

Well, no need for that.  I think  crooks are
vile people and worse.  Since he isn't in
Black Africa, and there are no jungles in
Portsmouth, I'm a soreback, so I know that,
it was NOT aimed at him anyhow.

READ the post and you'll see I was talking
about scammers in NIGERIA, not Portsmouth
VA, I think that he was just
looking to be offended, as a lot of people
are today!

I wonder if all the people rising to the defense of
those "jungle bunnies" are the "shippers" for the
scammers.



73 de Ronnie