ARRL Proposes Narrowly Defining Restrictions on Mobile
Devices
Responding to a federal law that requires states to ban
texting while driving in order to receive federal funds for driver safety
programs, the ARRL Executive Committee has updated the League's policy
statement on mobile operating to urge continued exemption of amateur radio
communications from many of these restrictions. The League called for states
and municipalities to narrowly define "wireless communications
devices" to include only "full duplex wireless telephones" and
to specifically exclude "two-way radio communications equipment." The
complete text of the policy statement is available at < http://www.arrl.org/mobile-amateur-radio-policy
>.
