Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ll1.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!mgnetp!ll1!cej
From: cej@ll1.UUCP (One of the Jones Boys)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Re: Where are radar detectors illegal?
Message-ID: <316@ll1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 13:09:05 EST
Article-I.D.: ll1.316
Posted: Thu Jan 10 13:09:05 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 01:35:10 EST
References: <448@mhuxt.UUCP> <193@panda.UUCP> <258@enmasse.UUCP> <11551@gatech.UUCP> <4853@fortune.UUCP> <11581@gatech.UUCP>
Distribution: net
Organization: No Place Special
Lines: 41

> It is illegal to have a radar detector in CT.  If they find one, they
> take it.  If you take them to court, you lose (illegal).
> 
> AH!!  Now the catch!
> 
> 	If you appeal enough to make it to FEDERAL COURT, you will
> WIN!!!
> 
> 	The FCC Act says the Gov't may not infringe upon anyones
> RECEPTION of electromagnetic radiation.
> 
> Charlie Tierney		(fortune!tierney)

	I may be wrong, but a while back the FCC/legislature passed
the "Intended Receiver Act" (about the same time they changed my
1st class license to a "general class").  This is what makes it
unlawful to intercept Showtime, et. al., even when they are
transmitted omni-directionally and unencoded.

	There is such a set up in Cleveland, broadcasting unencoded
Showtime, omni-directionally, up around 500MHz I believe, for
commercial subscribers to receive.  Anyone with line of sight to the
Terminal Tower (or is it the Cleveland Landmark Tower now?) and a
cheap converter can get it.  However, they (the authorities) have
been taking them down off of people's roofs every time they spot one,
with the FCC's blessing!

	I realize it will most likely be a gray legal area for a
while, but the flat statement:

 	"The FCC Act says the Gov't may not infringe upon anyones
RECEPTION of electromagnetic radiation."

can no longer be taken as a given truth.

	So the question may be:  Are you the INTENDED RECEIVER of
that radar signal or just the INTENDED REFLECTOR. ;-)

----------
Have you hugged me today?		Chuck Jones
(And if not, why not?)			...mgnetp!ll1!cej