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- From: deglop@donald.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Jacob DeGlopper)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Re: Scanner laws... (NOT illegal! - mostly)
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 16:34:36 GMT
- Organization: EEAP, CWRU, Cleveland
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- References: <Pine.3.05.9301271912.A8851-c100000@uafhp.uark.edu>
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- In article <Pine.3.05.9301271912.A8851-c100000@uafhp.uark.edu> Peter Laws <plaws@uafhp.uark.edu> writes:
-
- [Note that this is really much more appropriate to alt.radio.scanner]
-
- > Bottom line is this: there are less than a dozen states that prohibit
- >*mobile* use of scanners. And, as someone posted previously, most of
- >those states exempt Licensed Amateur Radio Operators.
-
- _All_ states exempt licensed amateur operators. The last state to add
- this exemption added it in April of 1992.
-
- >common folk have been prohibited, not only from listening to certain
- >portions of the *PUBLIC* radio spectrum, but of even buying a radio with
- >said capability! It is *NOT* illegal, I'd like to point out, to do the
-
- To pick nits, it will not, as I understand it, be illegal to buy or posess
- a radio capable of receiving cellular transmissions. It will be illegal to
- sell, manufacture, or import such a radio.
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- Jacob DeGlopper, EMT-A, Wheaton (MD) Volunteer Rescue Squad
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