No, it is all of those dope deals going down on the local repeater!
--Lou K2LKK



At 10:09 AM 7/15/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>because, of course, everyone knows that terrorists would use a highschool
>ham station to communicate right?
>We haven't yet been subject to crazy laws putting limits on ham radio here
>in Canada.
>The legislative part of the government tends to leave the existing
>legislation alone, and allows case law to form precident to guide that
>legislation.  Industry Canada lets hams do pretty much what they want within
>the existing legislation and law makers don't mess with a good thing.
>We have however had some talk surrounding outlawing the use of sell phones
>in Alberta, in a moving vehicle, but this is sell phones only, and does not
>limit the use of other devices for communication such as two way radios.
>When they make a law such as the one quoted for NJ which is trying to
>universally outlaw the use of devices for written and verbal communication
>for a driver of a vehicle, it is just asking for all sorts of problems such
>as public safety vehicles, civic works vehicles, taxi cabs, and on and on.
>Once they start making exemptions to the law to allow those persons and
>services to use communication devices, it starts to undermine the law and
>creates legal loop holes to allow other things to slip by which were the
>whole reason the law was made in the first place.  Better to leave well
>enough alone, or to make the law much more specific to address the real
>issue and not become lazy in the verbage and make a sweeping reference to
>all devices instead of the ones that are targetted.
>73
>Colin, V A6BKX
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>Subject: Re: RADIO LAW: HAMS WIN MOBILE IN MOTION EXEMPTION IN NEW JERSEY
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>
> > We just got this in Texas.  Another insane law that Ann Richards passed
>several
> > years ago said that no public school could have a ham station on campus
>hence no
> > ham clubs except off of school campuses.  This wasn't observed in a lot of
> > places but that law was recently (a month ago) revoked.  Its long past
>time for
> > that!  I supoose the idea was not to allow terrorist activity by students
>in the
> > schools.
> >
> > Tom
> >  Tom Brennan
> > KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP web page
>http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
> >
> >
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