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When a Rule Making Petition is filed with the FCC (as ours has been), the Commission first decides whether it has merit and is worth pursuing.

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Saturday
03Oct2009

97.113 Petition Update

DateSaturday, October 3, 2009 at 12:25PM

We are nearing completion of our Petition for Rule Making to amend 97.113. We are on a fourth or fifth draft of the petition itself. We also now have two different wordings—very different but equivalent in function—for the new paragraph we’d like to add to the rule. It would allow hams who are paid emergency personnel to participate in all emergency-related activities without regard to their employee status.

I have sought comment from a few people concerning which of the two wordings will work best. I am not ready to release them at this time, but expect to next week sometime. We are looking at ways to get broad feedback on our proposal while still fast-tracking filing of the petition itself.

AuthorDavid Coursey, N5FDL | Comments Off |
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The current podcast of TWIAR (This week in amateur radio) has a featured piece on FCC rule 97.113. Episode 858 go to iTunes and have a listen.

October 6, 2009 | Registered CommenterDavid Gillespie

I am in agreement with you on this ruling. Our hospital association have spent over $40,000 (from Federal fubds) to setup 26 hospitals with radios as well as training personel to operate them in an emergency stiuation. We are an ARES state and we don't have enough operators to go to each hodpitsl to operste. The Fed keep on saying that we need radio intraoperative ability. To say that each employee has a percunative interest is insane.
We are only trying to do our best to make sure that we have communications in time of an emergency. If you tie our hands on having to get a waiver for training or drills, HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT THE SYSTEM WORKS. There are many State and Federal drills that we could test the during the drill. How far in advance do you need to request this waiver, and how long before you get an approval !!!!

October 27, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterRichard Cooper
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