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<H2><SPAN class=031582314-12092010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Nos USA
foi dada razão ao radioamadores, teremos que tambem em Portugal caminhar no
mesmo sentido, falar em movel no carro não é o mesmo que falar ao
telemovel.</FONT></SPAN></H2>
<H2><SPAN class=031582314-12092010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Cabe ás
associações, actuar junto da ANACOM, as restrições ao uso de transceivers nos
carros, tambem em Portugal devem ser permitidas aos radioamadores. Um radio de
amador não é o mesmo que um telemovel!</FONT></SPAN></H2>
<H2><SPAN class=031582314-12092010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>CT1AXZ</FONT></SPAN></H2>
<H2><SPAN class=031582314-12092010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Manuel
Jesus</FONT></SPAN></H2>
<H2><SPAN class=031582314-12092010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial><A
href="http://www.sitesmaisuteis.pt">www.sitesmaisuteis.pt</A></FONT></SPAN></H2>
<H2><SPAN class=031582314-12092010><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </H2>
<H2><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>New York Judge Declares Amateur Radio Is Not
a Cell Phone</FONT></H2>
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<DIV class=article><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=date>09/10/2010</SPAN> </FONT></FONT>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>In many states and localities, it is illegal
to talk on a cell phone (without a hands-free device) while behind the wheel --
doing so can result in a ticket and possibly a large fine. But on May 30, 2010,
when a New York ham was talking on his mobile rig, he didn’t think he was doing
anything wrong. Except that the officer who pulled him over and cited him with a
$100 fine didn’t quite see it that way.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>Steve Bozak, WB2IQU, of Clifton Park, told the
ARRL that when he was pulled over while driving to Troy -- about 16 miles away
-- he assured the officer that he was not speaking on a cell phone, but on his
handheld transceiver. But according to Bozak, the officer said “it was all the
same to him.” So Bozak decided to fight the ticket in court.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>“Honestly, it’s not the fine or the ticket,
but that all the other hams who use mobile radios have to hide the fact we are
mobile in Troy,” he told the ARRL just days after he was cited. “I will do my
best to settle this politely and correctly, for all of the ham community. So I
will follow the course and have my day in court, to ‘tell it to the judge.’ This
matter affects 38,000 hams in New York State.”</FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>Unfortunately, when Bozak had his day in
traffic court, he lost his case. But he didn’t give up and took his case to City
Court where, on September 8, the judge dismissed the case in Bozak’s favor.
Bozak argued that his use “of a handheld Amateur Radio does not fit the
definition of a mobile telephone, and as such, the present charge should be
dismissed.” The prosecutor’s office did not submit a response in
opposition.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>Saying that New York’s Vehicle and Traffic Law
defines a “Mobile Telephone” as a “device used by subscribers and other users of
wireless telephone service to access such service,” and that a “Wireless
Telephone Service” is defined as “two-way real time voice tele-communications
service that is interconnected to a public switched telephone network and is
provided by a commercial mobile radio service,” the judge decided that Bozak’s
handheld transceiver did not fit that description.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>“A review of 47 C.F.R.§20.3 reveals that
Citizens Band Radio Service is defined under private mobile radio service not
commercial mobile radio service,” the decision read. “Therefore, the Court finds
that the use of an Amateur Radio device does not fit the definition of a mobile
telephone as defined under the Vehicle and Traffic Law” As such, the judge
dismissed the case in Bozak’s favor.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial>“While the court cited the Citizens Band
Service instead of the Amateur Radio Service, the ruling very is favorable to
amateurs on the precise point of law raised,” said ARRL Regulatory Information
Manager Dan Henderson, N1ND. “The principle of law is spot on. This is a great
ruling in New York and exactly what we had thought would
happen.”</FONT></P></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>