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I would think that if there is an emergency in a very rural area, it happens often that people contact the fire dept. / authorities via their radio frequencies,
by captainmuon 4y ago
I would think that if there is an emergency in a very rural area, it happens often that people contact the fire dept. / authorities via their radio frequencies, even if it is strictly speaking not legal. I read something the other day where they were looking for a crashed plane, and somebody radioed them with details.
- zorpner 4y agoThere's no need for speculation -- the individual in question is not only a licensed amateur radio operator, but holds additional licenses for commercial microwave links. They are well aware of the rules, and chose to violate them, repeatedly, after being instructed not to by the very emergency response personnel they were purportedly trying to help (in fact, they were trying to manipulate the emergency response to save some of their own equipment). It's baffling to me how many people here are defending them. This is about as clear-cut as it gets.
- solar-ice 4y agoThe definition of emergency in this context is pretty close to "someone's gonna die if I don't make this transmission". He knows this. Every amateur radio operator knows this. He didn't make a mistake.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoWhich is absolutely fine, but there are (or should be, I'm not a radio guy) channels they can do that on / with that do not interfere with the people on the ground needing to coordinate.