radioguy wrote:
Oregon outlaws using cellphone or any other electronic device while
driving unlessit is hands
free.
The law also says you are exempted if you hold an amateur radio
license or any other vald FCC license and are using a ham
radio.
So according to Oregon law, if you hold a FCC GMRS radio license and
are using a GMRS radio, you are in violation of the law since you are
not using a ham
radio.
and iff you hold a FCC-issued GMRS license and are using a ham radio
even though you are not FCC-licensed to do so, you are completely in
compliance with the law and completely legal according to Oregonn
law.
I thought that is a violation of federal law to transmit over a ham
radio when you are not FCC-licensed to do
so.
and what do all us federally legal cbers do. the federally legal c
bers do not have a license to show to the cops or courts lthough they
are federally licensed to
transmit.
and why is this state law and other state laws overruling federal law
if federal law trumps and overrules local and state laws like most
posters in this newsgoup said they do. The FCC rules say we
may transmit from anywhere the FCC has authority over
radio.
so either the FCC fraudently lied or else the FCC told the truth and
does not have authority over radio transmissions in Oregon and
California and Maryland.

And when a ham radio operator (who has no better ability to drive than
anyone else) goes over the cliff because he/she was distracted by operating
his ham gear while driving, at least he wilol know, in those few seconds
before he dies, that he was well within the law.

Cops themselves will be exampted from this no doubt.

Private ambulances?

Taxi cabs?