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[Lyle Bickley]

To the best of my knowledge, state and counties do NOT have the ability to 
override Federal Communications law.

However, they often "interpret" federal law to their own "liking".  Having 
been involved in Amateur Radio for years - I have seen a lot of attempts by 
local "authorities" to limit radio and transmission use.  Of course, when 
there's an emergency - they think "hams" are wonderful - then they forget 
about it later.  Human nature at work.  Sigh.

I'm not sure how it is in the rest of the world - but I suspect the same 
issues exist - governments, as a matter of principle, don't like to have 
citizens "eavesdropping" on what they are doing.

Lyle


On Friday 04 March 2005 23:39, Eric Smith wrote:
> Lyle wrote:
> > While the Federal Communications Act permit the reception of radio
> > signals by scanners, shortwave radios, etc. - there are exceptions to
> > that privilege in both federal and state laws.
>
> All the exceptions you listed are part of Federal law.  By what authority
> can a state make it illegal for me to receive a transmission which
> federal law allows?
>
> Eric

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Lyle Bickley
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