Frank Glover writes in a message to Al Mcclain
 FG> Having worked at several radio stations (and visited others) 
 FG> in my locality, I know they monitor *each other* all the time. 
 FG> Indeed, I learned the frequency of one station's news cars 
 FG> that I didn't know, in the newsroom of another. 
I'm sure that this is what the BC auxiliary ban in the ECPA was all about, 
but the FCC rules for that service allow any broadcaster to listen to or even 
transmit on any BC auxiliary frequency without a license for up to something 
like 680 hours of transmit time per year.  This is meant to allow immediate 
coordination of another frequency if yours becomes unusable for some reason.  
After the 680 hours, you have to have a license in hand, so you are supposed 
to apply for the new license as you switch to the new frequency.
  
So broadcasters are exempt from this part of the ECPA.  In other words, 
another unenforcable part of the act.
 
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