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Frank,
FG>   Yes, I'm *intensely* interested in how this turns out.
FG>Espically as it *appears* they got the entire
FG>conversation in question. Unless the Speaker was in
FG>essentially one location the whole time, it suggests they 
FG>had both the hardware and knowledge to follow his
FG>conversation from cell to cell. That plus the presence of
FG>a recorder suggests it was much more than casual
FG>listening.      I mean, we seem to have violations of the
FG>TDDRA, the ECPA *and* the Communications Act....
FG> 
FG>   (A newspaper story today says they used a Radio Shack
FG>scanner, but no model was named....)
The St Pete Times has a couple of reporters working on it.
per the times:
a. radio shack hand held purchased a couple of years ago.
b. recorded on the road as they drove to lake city
c. The cell phone recorded was a politition traveling(not 
Newt). Newt and the other 1 (or two) were stationary.
Questions: 1. Is it possible to use an old scanner to 
receive both sides of the cell phone conversation? Are two 
needed.
2. Would it jump between freqs as the conversation changed 
from person to person?
3. On a stretch of rural highway couldn't one be handled by 
a single cell tower say 25 miles either side, thus getting 
45 mins of conversation without a cell tower(and freq set) 
change?
I think the possibility of these folks having a cell phone 
tracker like a hacked OKI-900 on a computer controller seems 
unlikely.  But I don't buy this shack scanner story either.
4. What was the date that stores could no longer sell 
scanners which could receive cell freqs?
Food for thought.
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