[BC] FEMA

[Bill Croghan]

Dave,
	First I'd heard about them impacting the SW broadcast stuff.  5 MHz
is becoming popular with disaster relief agencies due to it's usefulness day
and night, with reasonable antennas.  I'm involved in the Federal SHARES HF
radio system as a CAP member and we haven't been notified of any of those
changes (yet).
	FEMA, like all federal agencies is really cracking down on the
radios we and other Federal agencies can use.  The NTIA requirements are
often stiffer than the FCC.  (NTIA is to the federal government users, what
FCC is to the non federal, commercial, state, local etc.).  I don't think
you'll see any old Heath equipment on the air.  Frequency stability is one
of the key requirements.
	With the number of things moving out of HF, I would have thought
that there would be more frequencies available that FEMA and International
SW Broadcasters could use.  It might be some treaty issues.
Bill

Lt. Col. Bill Croghan, CAP
WB?KSW  Silver State 708
Deputy Director of Comm., NV wing CAP
Las Vegas, NV
Chief Engineer, 
Lotus Broadcasting 
KOMP/KXPT/KENO/KBAD


  

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>Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 7:03 AM
>To: broadcast at radiolists.net
>Subject: [BC] FEMA
>
>Question to the brain trust out there.  In the past several months, we
>have been "moved" off of several frequencies in the 5 and 7 MHZ
>international shortwave broadcast band by FEMA reserving those
>frequencies.  Not only do they want the frequency, they want a "guard
>band" about a mile on either side.  Anybody know what's going on.  Are
>there not enough other government allocated frequencies between 2-30MHz
>for them to use?  Or, are they using 1950 era Heathkit equipment?  Just
>curious and wonder if anybody out there really has a handle on this one.
>Thanks.
>Dave Orienti
>WEWN Birmingham, AL
>
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