On 3 Jan 97 10:52pm, Andrew Leary wrote to Kerry Kowalski:
 KK>> What I can't figure is: it's not legal cordless or cell phones.
 KK>> The scanners nolonger have 869-896 or the input freqs. Why do
 KK>> they still have 43-47 mhz in new scanners??? Go figure...
 AL> Because cordless phones are a very small portion of that band.  Many
 AL> other services (which are legal to monitor) are in the same band,
 AL> including police, ambulances, school buses, fire, etc.
 Actually, it's because congress hasn't told the FCC to implement rules to
 block scanners that will operate on (tune to) cordless phone freqs, like it
 did with cell phones.
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