Here Here, Rick WA6NHC!

As Clint Eastwood (Dirty Harry) said “a man’s got to know his limits”.

I love Rick’s points on all the services that are affected.

I’m certain that it all depends on your training.  In my case, I’m a licensed private aircraft pilot.  You are taught to do multiple tasks from your very first flight (operating in a XYZ environment is a real eye opener).  There is one very important rule in flying.  You must do these tasks in the following order; aviate (fly the plane), navigate (know where you are in XYZ space), then communicate (no one on the ground can fly your plane).  Never deviate from these rules (just ask Captain Sullenberger; he followed these rules exactly and his dire situation turned out all right).

These same rules can be applied when driving.  There have been many times, while driving, that I’ve put the mike down and attended to the primary tasks (drive the car and be situationally aware of the cars around you).  Communications come last.  I’ve missed some neat DX, but I’m still alive because I followed my training.  Communicate another day.

I too am pretty fed up with our nanny state, but not quite PO’d enough to leave, although I’ve done an extensive search on where to go, in the USA.

If you don’t have multitasking ability, don’t do 2 way radio in your car.

Get your wife licensed and let her have all the fun or have her drive and you play on the radio!

73 and good DX.

Jim

WB6BET