Hams Face New Rules on Ontario Roadways

[ARRL]

The Ministry of Transportation in Ontario, Canada announced on September 30 that Bill 118 concerning distracted driving will take effect on October 26, 2009. According to Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) Vice President for Public Relations Peter West, VE3HG, the new law makes it illegal for drivers to talk, text, type, dial or e-mail using handheld cell phones and other handheld communications and entertainment devices. Following a three-month period that begins October 26, the focus will be on educating drivers; police will start issuing tickets on February 1, 2010. “All two-way radios in all vehicles -- with the exception of emergency responding vehicles -- must be hands-free in three years time,” he posted on the RAC’s blog. “This news comes from the official government staffer who has been in communications with Radio Amateurs of Canada over the last year. At the end of the three-year exemption, all commercial, CB and Amateur Radio equipment used in moving vehicles by the vehicle operator must be hands-free in operation.”



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[C2]

Yes, except for emergency responders, because we know they have super powers to drive especially fast while talking on the radio...

 

[Moleculo]

LOL

 

[HiDef]

So pick up a solder iron and make up a hands free setup for the mobile rig.

Problem solved.

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Ontario Canada = California USA. :angry: Unfortunately when Ontario gets heartburn the rest of the country usually ends up taking the "cure" as well. :headbang

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

Yes, except for emergency responders, because we know they have super powers to drive especially fast while talking on the radio...

Actually it would be because the emergency responders are funded at one level or another thru the Ontario provincial government,the same government that says everybody (except us) will have to replace all their two way radio equipment.