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From: tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook)
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Subject: Re: Portable Office Phones
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Date: 5 Mar 90 06:07:19 GMT
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Interesting thing I have noticed about radio receivers with blocked
cellular coverage.  The cheap ones are easy to modify (like my Radio
Shack PRO2005....just clip a diode), but the expen$ive ones, like the
ICOM ($1K+) don't block cellular coverage at all!  I have the feeling
that the blocking on the Tandy unit may have had more to do with the
fact that Radio Shack also markets celluar phones, rather than any
part of the ECPA.

I just pulled out my copy of the ECPA, and it seems to say that
manufacture, advertising, distribution, etc of devices that are
EXPRESSLY designed for eavesdropping on the forbidden communications
are prohibited.  Maybe this is where Grove Enterprises got in trouble
with the feds....they were advertising that they would remove the
blocking of cellular coverage on the radios that they sell.


Tad Cook
Seattle, WA
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