Big win for Delaware's amateur radio operators

A big win for mobile ham radio operations in Delaware.
This with word that, in a unanimous vote, both houses of that states legislature passed an amendment to a Delaware house bill that outlaws mobile use of 'two-way
communication' devices, but now specifically allows amateur radio use.

The original wording of the state's cellphone law would have also banned all sorts of two-way radio operations as well. But State Representatives Ruth Briggs King and Dave Wilson recognized the deficiencies in the wording and introduced an amendment to correct them. It then became the work of the Delaware ham community to assure its
passage.

According to a public posting by Dennis Karol, KB3MJ, on the QRZed.com website, some 15 Delaware amateurs not only wrote, called and emailed to their state Representatives and Senators, but actually spent endless hours at Legislative Hall in Dover on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. They spent
that time educating legislators about radio communications in general and amateur radio in particular.

In the end, the amendment passed with yes votes from 100% of the Representatives and Senators who were present in both Houses.

Source: ARNewsline, KB3MJ