-> -=> Quoting Ben Bass to Bud Jamison <=-
->
-> Nothing shall be contrued to apply to a ham who:
-> 1) Has a valid license.
-> 2) Operates a licensed portable mobile transmitter and IN CONNECTION
-> WITH IT: 3) Operates a receiver or receiving set ON FREQUENCIES
-> EXCLUSIVELY ALLOCATED BY THE FCC TO DULY LICENSED RADIO AMATUERS.
->
-> If you want to get really picky, the law clearly doesn't allow a ham
-> to have a scanner in his car without a ham transmitter,
Agreed.
-> nor does it
-> allow a scanner that is set to anything outside of the ham freqs.
-> The clauses: "in connection with" and "frequencies exclusively
-> allocated by the Federal Communications Commission to duly licensed
-> radio amateurs" make it very clear that the exemption only allows
-> receiving transmissions on the ham bands and only when a ham
-> transmitter is present in the vehicle.
It DOESN'T say that. It only says the receive has to have ham
frequencies in it. It also DOESN'T once it has ham frequencies, it can't
have anything else in it. The "test" for exemption is that is MUST have
ham frequencies, not that it can't ALSO receive anything else.
> It is clearly only exempting amateur radio gear or receivers tuned
-> only to the amateur radio bands.
->
-> If you tried to argue with Harry Handcuffs over a scanner in yor car
-> and you have no ham radio in there with it, Harry wins. He also wins
-> if that scanner is receiving anything outside the ham bands.
I agree. Harry wins if you have no ham radio in the vehicle.
Ben
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