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From: djw@lanl.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Listening to radio transmissions and Wire-tapping...
Message-ID: <30519@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 19:17:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 11 19:17:35 1985
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Reply-To: djw@a.UUCP (David Wade)
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In article <3187@teklabs.UUCP> rafaeld@teklabs.UUCP (Rafael De Arce) writes:
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>There has been much talk on the net about our "freedoms" to listen
>to radio transmissions...
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>First and foremost... listening to Common Carriers IS wire-tapping and illegal!

I think I must be misunderstanding the discussion.  You responded with the
oft-quoted information that listening to "common-carrier" data is wiretapping.
But this discussion was about listening in on satellite beams which were
broadcast at you.  The satellite issue has been addressed frequently by
people with a lot more at stake than you or I; and the supreme court has
ruled that people are entitled to listen in on the satellite broadcasts.

Not only that; ( and this applies to your radar detectors as well; ) I
am a licensed amateur operator and it is quite legal for me to transmit
in those bands...  What makes you think that it's illegal for me to
receive my own transmissions?

There are about five or six different understandings about what we've
been talking about here.  I originally got into this about the "loss of
freedoms" discussion.  I own a satellite receiver; as do several of my
friends, and none of us were aware that anything had changed.  From your
comments about the FCC, I must conclude that nothing has; we're just
talking about separate things.

Dave Wade
Los Alamos National Laboratories