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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OKCHunter" data-source="post: 4229065" data-attributes="member: 8534"><p>For those wanting to use amateur radio without a license in the case of emergency, the FCC allows:</p><p></p><h2>§ 97.403 Safety of life and protection of property.</h2><p>No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur station of any means of radiocommunication at its disposal to provide essential communication needs in connection with the immediate safety of human life and immediate protection of property when normal communication systems are not available.</p><p></p><h2>§ 97.405 Station in distress.</h2><p>(a) No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur station in distress of any means at its disposal to attract attention, make known its condition and location, and obtain assistance. </p><p>(b) No provision of these rules prevents the use by a station, in the exceptional circumstances described in <a href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/section-97.405#p-97.405(a)" target="_blank">paragraph (a)</a>of this section, of any means of radiocommunications at its disposal to assist a station in distress.</p><p></p><p>In other words, use of an Amateur Radio or the Amateur Radio Bands is not prohibited in a bonafide emergency.</p></blockquote><p></p>