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From: revc@gwsd.UUCP (Bob Van Cleef)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio,net.dcom,net.video
Subject: Re: Listen to phone calls on your tvro
Message-ID: <170@gwsd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 11:20:27 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 11:20:27 1985
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Summary: German listening laws

In article <127@hydra.UUCP>, die@hydra.UUCP (Dave Emery) writes:
> 	And as someone on the net pointed out, the difficulty of
> proving interception took place will soon lead to proposals to
> make mere possession of equipment that could or might intercept private
> transmissions a crime.  This of course will be rather interesting
> since there are so many examples of legitimate radio equipment
> that could be used to pick up forbidden private signals by merely pointing
> the antenna differently or keying in a slightly different frequency.

My brother-in-law, a German airlines pilot, likes to tell the story of
one airlines Captain who lost his commercial license because he was
discovered listening to airplane conversations with an unlicensed
receiver.

In Germany the Post Office has the functions of our FCC, and you are
NOT allowed to monitor anything non-commercial without a license.  In
the case of this pilot, the German supreme court overruled the PO,
on the grounds that loss-of-livelyhood was excess punishment, but
they kept his receiver system.

Bob
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