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echo: scanners
to: NATHAN BOLLINGER
from: ANDY ULRICH
date: 1997-01-10 00:47:00
subject: Re: Cordless phone freq`s

 -=> Quoting Nathan Bollinger to Andy Ulrich <=-
 >I don't know if I should give any of the government pinhead's and idea, but
 >as far as I know it is illegal to listen to cordless phone freq's and
 >conversations but if they wanted to do some thing about it they would have
 >made it illegal to have the freq's programed into a scanner. You see they
 >want
 >pacify those who wanted the scanner enthusiast stopped but not enough to
 >put teeth in the law. So the passed some more feel good legislation that
 >made
 >bad law.
 NB> They just don't want everyone driving to Canada to buy scanners. It's
 NB> still legal there. Besides, cordless phones can be picked up on a baby
 NB> monitor. You want to outlaw those, too?
The hole thing makes me sick. The goofy law makers just had to make a law for 
the bone heads that didn't realize they were basically talking on a radio.
Isn't there a FCC reg that states if your cordless phone interferes with 
someone else's electronic equipment that you must discontinue it's use?
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