-=> Quoting Ben Bass to Pete Hopping <=-
 -> -=> 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,
 BB> 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.
 BB> It DOESN'T say that. It only says the receive has to have ham
 BB> frequencies in it. It also DOESN'T once it has ham frequencies, it
 BB> can't have anything else in it. The "test" for exemption is that is
 BB> MUST have ham frequencies, not that it can't ALSO receive anything
 BB> else.
Sure it does. Otherwise they wouldn't have the "exclusively allocated"
terms in the law. See my other message.
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