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Msgid : $RACESBUL.235
TO: ALL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCIES/OFFICES VIA THE ARS
INFO: ALL RACES OPERATORS IN CA (ALLCA: OFFICIAL)
ALL AMATEURS U.S. (@ USA: INFORMATION)
FROM: CA STATE OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES (W6HIR @ WA6NWE.CA)
2800 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832 (916)427-4281
RACESBUL.235 DATE: Aug. 17, 1992
SUBJECT: MGT - FCC Rules Part 97 RACES
QUESTION: Where does it say in the FCC Rules that the
RACES is a governmental organization?
REPLY: It doesn't. What the FCC Rules do say is that a
group of Radio Amateurs can only function as a RACES unit under
the control of a properly constituted Civil Defense agency.
(Reference: FCC 97.163a, 97.169b, 97.175, and 197.177.) The
RACES unit remains an Amateur Radio group performing a unique
communications service for a particular civil defense agency. By
its nature as a service to local government under local
government supervision, activation, and authority it becomes, in
effect, a quasi-governmental function.
There are many Radio Services. There is Amateur Radio,
Local Government, Fire, Police, Business, Special Emergency,
Personal, Land Transportation, Aviation, Citizens and many more.
They all have several things in common. They define eligibility,
technical parameters, permissible communications, frequencies of
operation and other points. Let's take the Police Radio
Service for example. It tells a local government how to apply
for authorization for and the use of the Police Radio Service
frequencies, but it does not tell a local government how to run
it's police department and the use of its personnel. Exactly the
same applies to the RACES subpart of the Amateur Radio Service
rules. The rules do not presume to tell a government how to
organize and administer Amateur Radio operators in a RACES unit
any more than it tells any jurisdiction how to run its police
department, fire department, emergency management agency and so
forth. The Rules do require that a RACES organization be a part
of the local government's civil defense structure.
The FCC Rules do require that an Amateur Radio operator
have a copy of the latest Rules. The FCC rules do not require
any local government, however, to use the RACES or any Amateur
Radio operators. Those who serve consider it an honor and a
privilege. --- Stan Harter, CA State ARS Coordinator, KH6GBX
EOM