Amateur and other rules --was-- Re: [BC] Studio? We don't need no stinkin' studio!

[Cowboy]

On Monday 11 September 2006 05:18 pm, Bill Croghan wrote:
> Hi Cowboy,

 Hey !

> 	Thanks to Harold's site,
> 
> 	From what I can find and have been teaching at the community
> college, the rules show only the following restrictions on this subject.  If
> there is another restriction I'd be very interested in knowing where it is.
> 
> Sec.  97.113   Prohibited transmissions.
> >>>>>>snip<<<<<
>    (5) Communications, on a regular basis, which could reasonably be
> furnished alternatively through other radio services.
> >>>>>>>snip<<<<<

 I dunno....
 It seems to me that the spirit is still the same.
 Basicly that the Amateur service may not be used to circumvent
 the commercial services when they are available.

> 	I guess this means that if I have a cell phone (Which is a radio
> service),

 Is it ?
 I'd almost bet that if you ask the uneducated man on the street
 ( which includes the Commissioners ) it's not a radio,
 it's a telephone/video game/ text messaging system and they'd be
 shocked to learn that it actually uses radio !

> I would have to use it first to call my friend with another cell 
> phone, but if I'm at home using the wire line system I can use my Radio?
> 
> 	I think the way you describe it was in the rules back in the dark
> ages when I was first licensed but was loosened up somewhere along the
> line.

 It seems to me that the spirit is the same, but as everything else, the
 lawyers have mucked it up to the point where common sense is irrelevant.

 It's a big part of the reason that although my license is current, I'm no longer
 active in the amateur service.
 ( except in real life and death emergencies in close proximity to me, in which case
 my call has been known to violate almost every rule on the books, except the
 legal ID requirement, and likely will do so in the future as well )
 (( I gotta take that back. My 2x1 has been abbreviated to simply "8-zed" in very high
 traffic situations as well..... ))
 ((( of course, there is that rule that says that the rules don't apply when life is at stake )))

-- 
Cowboy