Steve Brack writes in a message to Scott Christensen
 SB> Do you know whether there are  any IMTS installations still 
 SB> up & running in the U.S.?
I kind of doubt it.  Cellular phone has blown the old expensive IMTS system 
away.
  
 SB> With the new laws prohibiting listening to telephone calls 
 SB>  whether cellular or not, is it now illegal to listen to VHF 
 SB>  marine channels when phone patches are happening, or to 800MHz 
 SB>  public service bands when they're using a channel or two for 
 SB>  phone patches? Of course, with the new anti-scanner law  working 
 SB> its way through Congress, it may become a moot point. 
  
Not listening to phone patches is within the spirit if not the letter of the 
law.
  
The "anti scanner" law would appear to be dead - no co-sponsors and going 
nowhere.
 
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