"Leo" wrote in message
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Dwight,

I did some digging on this, and I believe that you are absolutely
correct - a mandate is an authorization or an approval.

In fact, the word "mandate" can be used to mean either a mandatory
requirement or an authorization. The dictionary defines "mandate" as:


Except that the FCC rules do not grant any authority in anyway to do public
service nor do they establish any requirement to do public service. In any
sense of the word mandate, there is none in the FCC Part 97.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

"Dee D. Flint" wrote:

Except that the FCC rules do not
grant any authority in anyway to do
public service nor do they establish
any requirement to do public
service. In any sense of the word
mandate, there is none in the FCC
Part 97.


Okay, now that you have accepted the authorization or approval sense of
the word, and have acknowledged 97.1 and the regs relating to RACES, go back
to my original statement you objected to - "there is nothing in Part 95 that
mandates public service like that found in Part 97." Would you now agree
there is nothing in Part 95 relating to public service that is like that
found in Part 97?


Dwight Stewart (W5NET)

http://www.qsl.net/w5net/

"Dwight Stewart" wrote in message
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"Dee D. Flint" wrote:

Except that the FCC rules do not
grant any authority in anyway to do
public service nor do they establish
any requirement to do public
service. In any sense of the word
mandate, there is none in the FCC
Part 97.


Okay, now that you have accepted the authorization or approval sense of
the word, and have acknowledged 97.1 and the regs relating to RACES, go
back
to my original statement you objected to - "there is nothing in Part 95
that
mandates public service like that found in Part 97." Would you now agree
there is nothing in Part 95 relating to public service that is like that
found in Part 97?


Neither Part 97 or Part 95 mandates or authorizes public service. Part 97
however recognizes and encourages public service which Part 95 does not.
That was obvious from the beginning and I never challenged the fact that
Part 97 is altogether different than Part 95.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE