"Dave Bushong" wrote in message
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Emergencies negate prohibiting regulations.


Actually, that's not automatically true. A ham was charged with
transmitting on a police frequency, using his modified ham HT, because
that was the only way he felt that he could get help for a life-
threatening injury (and it was probably an accurate assessment). But
the police said that since he had modified the radio *before* the
incident, that is when the act illegal was planned, and there is nothing

Uh, if you continue to post this 'partial' reference, please consider
posting the WHOLE story.

The individual was in deed arrested and charged. But according to
NUMEROUS other accounts, the individual had other means to make
contact other than using his HAM radio on sheriffs frequencies. Also,
the 'incident' that this involved was NOT (allegedly) a life threatening
situation. And also according to the stories posted about this incident,
the individual had a HISTORY of doing this or similar things in the area.

My impression, and my opinion, was the guy was a little weasel and
the legal authorities just plain got fed up with the little twit and nailed
him.

If you have other facts to post about this, I'm sure people here would
love to hear facts. But in the absence of verifiable facts, I think you
chose a very poor example.

Mike