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2farnorth wrote: ↑Fri Jan 11, 2019 8:15 am

Flightmare wrote: ↑Fri Jan 11, 2019 1:42 am https://w5wx.net/2018/12/28/texas-legislature-sb43/

Couldn't find a better post to put this under. Looks like Senator Zaffirini has filed a bill that would change the "texting while driving" law to outlaw ham radio operation while the vehicle is in motion. This would definitely affect Skywarn storm spotters/chasers.

This bill is aimed specifically at federally licensed operators. Striking out the current exemption the way I read it. Why? What has she got against us? Another democrat that wants to control every aspect of her subjects lives.
All radio dispatched non emergency services would be affected, Truckers underway with their CBs would be affected also. i don't like much of what I hear on a CB, but it does serve a good purpose.

I can see truck drivers across the start engaging in some malicious compliance, and stopping in the middle of the road every time they key the mic. Enforcement of this law would quickly come to a halt.

Depending on which VEC the team works with, they should have the ability to electronically submit results for Technician licensees. I'm the contact VE for my team, and we submit our results to W5YI-VEC. Unfortunately, we don't submit enough tests for them to allow me to submit electronically, and I'm not going to send a blank roster every month to have that ability.

Grundy1133 wrote:

Flightmare wrote:I always liked https://www.repeaterbook.com/

this site has more repeaters in my area than the site ghostrider mentioned. wonder why

Repeater book is a collection of repeaters that individuals have entered. It's pretty well kept up to date, but it's essentially, user generated content.

The Texas VHF FM Society serves a the coordination body for the FCC in state of Texas. Any ham can set up a repeater, but it's possible for repeaters to interfere with each other. The Texas VHF FM society maintains a list of standards to help prevent that. If there is interference between a coordinated repeater and an uncoordinated one, the burden falls to the owner of the uncoordinated repeater to fix whatever is causing the interference.