Scott wrote:
wrote:
I want receiver that can pick up from about 500 Khz to about 2.5 or 3 GHz,
but does NOT have the cellular freqs blocked. Any suggestions?
Hal - One could theoretically take an afternoon trip into Canada and
grab any number of scanners with that coverage, unblocked.
For instance, the Icom R3 receives 0.495-2450 MHz can be acquired from
many retailers for approx. $599.00 CAD/$446.983 USD.
0ur merchants cannot secure cell unblocked sales to non-Canadian
citizens, but with personal FCC approval that prohibition is waived for
Americans.
Although, Im sure some have circumvented that requirement by simply
paying over the counter with Canadian cash, instead of trying to use an
identifying credit card. I would never condone such a thing, of
course.
I'm sure that Hal could get one of his Canadian listeners to buy a set
for him. I'm not sure how the Canadian govt would stop a Canadian
citizen buying a set then reselling it to an American friend. I know
that software licenses in the US usually give a list of embargoed
nations that the software purchaser should not "be an agent of or be
controlled by"; but in practice anybody with cash can go to most
software retailers and buy anything off the shelf without any
citizenship checks.
The caveats regarding digitalization are legitimate ; however, North
America is presently a forest of analog repeaters: cellular
communications are very accessible. As a cogent aside, the 40 mhz and
900 mhz cordless phone bands are still highly saturated, as well.
Really? I thought those were abandoned long ago.
Shortwave reception isn't bad on some handeld scanners, either. I
recently discovered your WBCQ broadcast here in Canada , some 500 miles
away from their transmission centre and pull it in comfortably.
Maine is the northernmost point in the continental US (what Yanks call
the part of the US that excludes Alaska and Hawaii; also called "the
lower 48") so that is no surprise. Domestic SW stations in the US are
prohibited from broadcasting to domestic audiences; but stations bcing
in English regularly file coverage maps for tx to South America and
nobody at the FCC seems to care.
Congratulations on your 4th year. In a country where "free speech" is
almost uniquely true to its name ( for now!), your critics - though
misaligned with some of your ideas- should unequivocally support
Americans' right to voice them. They certainly have no qualms when it
comes to screaming out *theirs*.
+Cheers+
I'm sure you're familiar with the term "hate speech". That and religious
programming make up most private US SW broadcasting. (WBCQ has some
offbeat, pirate style stuff.) Considering how much antisemitism is on US
shortwave, I'm surprised that the big Jewish lobbies don't actively work
on shutting it down. I personally am all for free speech as long as
somebody doesn't advocate physically harming others. IMO Hal has crossed
this line sometimes.