"Rick" wrote...
In studying for my Extra, using the ARRL Extra Class License Manual
(2001), I came across an interesting note...

"There is a general rule that you may not be paid to operate your
Amateur
Radio station. In most cases this also means that you cannot operate
an
Amateur Radio station during the time that you are being paid by your
employer."

Does this mean that if I'm sitting at my desk at work, doing a job
that
doesn't have anything to do with radio, and during break time I pick
up my
HT and call someone on the local repeater, that I'm violating FCC
rules?

That would be a bizarre interpretation, and not anything I've ever
seen
before in 42 years as a ham...

And I participate during lunch-hour in a weekly net of our
employer-sanctioned (and supported) emergency amateur
radio services organization. Virtually all of us are sallaried
(not hourly) employees, and technically "on the clock".

I always assumed it was a prohibition on using amateur radio
for transport of commercial traffic.