<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv1512586165"><div id="yiv62216945"><div id="yiv116148400"><br>Bob, I gotta agree with Earl on this one. Reading a dash mounted display is a distraction<br>unless you are stopped in traffic. That may apply to you on the beltway but not me on<br>many Texas roads.<br><br>FWIW Texas passed two cellphone laws this past session (one attached) with language<br>intended to exempt hams (page 1, lines 14-16 and page 2 lines 8-14) but such laws<br>do not remove liability and responsibility.<br><br>de Charlie, N5EXY,<br>South Suburban Greater Hutto<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 9/21/09, Robert Bruninga <i><bruninga@usna.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Robert Bruninga <bruninga@usna.edu><br>Subject: Re: [aprssig] Future Concept for APRS (NOT Tracking
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<aprssig@tapr.org><br>Date: Monday, September 21, 2009, 6:12 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">> "The FUTURE is seeing APRS in every mobile <br>> including what every modern communicator is <br>> handy with.. That is text messaging. It<br>> works and works well in all aspects of human <br>> operations."<br>> <br>> Well it doesn't work worth a DARN while <br>> you're driving -- which is where most APRS is done. <br><br>I donno, my primary use of text messaging is RECEIVEING and<br>displaying the information on my head's up dissplay. I get<br>notices, info, activitites, meeting announcemnets, satellites in<br>view, local repeater frequencies, local IRLP and Echolink<br>frequencies, and just about anything I need to know anywhere in<br>ham radio right there on my dashboard within my driving line of<br>sight.<br><br>TO me, that works DARN well.<br><br>And it is locally RELEVANT no matter where I am
traveling.<br><br>Bob, Wb4APR<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow">aprssig@tapr.org</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig">https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aprssig</a><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div></td></tr></table><br>