[amsat-bb] Ham Radios on Princess Cruises

[John Spasojevich]

Gentlemen....without getting into a lot of detail...I can tell you that
regardless of what corporate or an ships agent ashore says....the captain
is the final authority. In all matters.

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Paul Stoetzer <n8hm at arrl.net> wrote:

> I do think a letter from the ARRL to all the cruise companies might be a
> good idea. Very few cruise lines allow amateur radio anymore and that's a
> shame. Operating from the Carnival Liberty during the AMSAT cruise last
> year was great fun!
>
> 73,
>
> Paul, N8HM
>
> On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 9:40 PM, Jeff Moore <tnetcenter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Cancel your cruise and be very specific as to why you are doing so and
> then
> > book on a line that WILL let you bring your radios!!  Hams deserve better
> > treatment than this!
> >
> > 7 3
> > Jeff Moore  --  KE7ACY
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Lee Maisel <maisel at lobo.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Post this to QRZ Forums.   Perhaps enough pressure on Princess will get
> > > policies fixed.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 5/24/2017 4:46 PM, Jerry Buxton wrote:
> > >
> > >> This is a very interesting item.  Being a multi-time Princess
> cruiser, I
> > >> have requested, received permission for, and taken ham radios on a
> dozen
> > >> cruises over almost two decades.  Today, in following up on my
> > >> unanswered request for our upcoming cruise, I was informed through our
> > >> Princess travel agent that the department which handles the amateur
> > >> radio requests says that there will be no more permissions given as
> ham
> > >> radios have been added to the prohibited items list by Princess
> > >> Security.  Interestingly, FRS is not on that same list.
> > >>
> > >> We had a bit of a discussion about it but of course the agent is not
> in
> > >> any position to do more than handling the request to the person in
> > >> charge of that, so there won't be any VP9/N0JY/MM on this cruise.  To
> > >> make it worse, that would also prohibit even taking the HTs along for
> > >> use on land as we tour the British Isles.  I am totally bummed.
> > >>
> > >> Does anybody on this list work for Princess Cruises, maybe have some
> > >> thoughts on this?    :-)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
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