FCC Regulation: 97.405 ------------------------------------------------------------
TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
PART 97--AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE--Table of Contents
Subpart E--Providing Emergency Communications
Sec. 97.405 Station in distress.
(a) No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur
station in distress of
any means at its disposal to attract attention,
make known its condition and location, and obtain assistance.
(b) No provision of these rules prevents the use by a station, in
the exceptional circumstances described in paragraph (a) of this
section, of
any means of radiocommunications at its disposal to assist a station in distress.
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I use an unmodified radio. It does put you in a bind, if the radio works, and you can't get attention on a frequency you know will work (i.e. intrastate police freq)
It's like being told not to take a knife into a protected reef in the keys "because you might kill a fish." Ignore the rule and you face criminal charges if caught. Follow the rule, and you very well could drown to suffer mental trauma when your equipment becomes entangled.
fish's life > your life
government rules > your life
Oh, if you successfully save yourself violating the rules, you probably won't face any charges. They like to call it "heroic" and "thinking outside the box". <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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