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  • From: "IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN" <ilichten1@verizon.net>
  • To: "'Mounted search and rescue'" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [MSAR] Interoperability
  • Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 11:24:29 -0500

DHS now requires that all emergency responders be capable of communicating by radio with other responders enroute or on scene with a grant cutoff of next year

for those who can’t. The rule as written requires public safety radio, not commercial systems (Cell phone, Nextel) and does not mention Amateur as a tactical system.

What you do within your organization is not covered but how you talk to others is.  And while VHF equipment is currently very cheap on the used public safety market

narrow banding  will be required within the next few years by FCC regulation and whenever the other agencies switch over in your area. 

 

Public safety quality radios are organization property and require a station license or authorization from a currently licensed entity but no operator license. 

And the system is very robust in disaster situations if properly designed.

 

Irv Lichtenstein

 

 



  • [MSAR] Interoperability, IRVIN LICHTENSTEIN, 05/08/2007

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