On Jan 11, 7:58*pm, Mike wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:30:47 -0500, wrote:

Some of us hams use radios that are WIDE OPEN!
Try talking to FEMA with FRS.

Which is illegal as your hammy radios are not FCC type accepted for
operation outside of the hammy bands.

The EMS service in my area uses one of the frs-only channels

Both for dspatch and communications.

And the.police use one of the frs-only

For communicationm\ns involving following vehicles and reading the
license plate numbers of the vehicles over the air.

Is it illegal for me to possess my frs.gmrs radios since they are
capable of transmtting on frequencie used by the police and ems??

Is it illegal for me to transmit on those frs-only channels since
they're police and ems channels?????

The federal FCC rules say they are shared channels that anyone may
use.

However, there have already been people in other cities and other
states arrested for illegally transmitting over police channels when
those police
channels were on the frs channels.

It seems like federal law did not trump local and state law in those
cases despite what 99.99 percent of the hams on here have said.

And even when people can get out of it, it still costs them in court
costs and lawyers fees.

The kind of money that I do not have and would not be able to get out
of in such a case.

So yes you can be fined, found guilty and put in jail for legally
transmitting on your frs/gmrs radio even when you don't hear anyone
else transmitting
on that channel since you are illegally transmitting on a police
channel or ems channel by doing so (as far as local police, local
government and some states are concerned).

Even if it is one of the frs-only channels (eight through fourteen on
the radios I've seen).

I'm not sure if what I heard is my local town or one of the other
towns very close to me.

However, the police and ems are definitely using the frs-only channels
as a police channel and an ems channel. (two different channels, one
each that I have heard so far).

According to the FCC rules I've read, that is legal for them to use as
such since frs may be used by anyone including businesses or by anyone
period.

Bt once again, (concerning the arrests of people for transmitting on
frs-only channels) what happened to federal law always trumps local
and state law???