Would the ban apply to ham-radio equipment too ?

[Phil]

When we passed a law in Britain making use of a mobile phone illegal by the driver of a vehicle in transit, mobile amateur radio users secured an exemption solely on the grounds that there has never, ever been a vehicle accident in the UK attributed to the use of mobile amateur radio. However, lives have been saved by the prompt action of radio operators.

Nowadays, we have frequent motorway accidents caused by long-distance lorry drivers holding conversations by text messaging.

Phil M1GWZ




On 16 Dec 2011, at 04:12, Frank Gentges wrote:

> The Virginia legislature had a draft bill that would have prohibited hams from using their radios as part of the cell phone bill.  The radio amateurs got to the people writing the bill and got some changes made based on Rhode Island's bill.
> 
> Hopefully, the hams will similarly protect against an overarching bill like the NTSB would suggest the states all pass.  Better yet the NTSB wording should identify hams as an exception to their recommendation. We shall see.
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> Frank K0BRA
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