Bart Bailey wrote:
In posted on
Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:52:34 -0700, dave wrote: Begin

Bart Bailey wrote:

Isn't SCA illegal to monitor?
I think non-commercial hobby listening is OK, unlike ECPA cell phones.
I don't think so.

http://www.usiia.org/legis/ecpa.html

I only did a cursory glance at the document
but didn't see any reference to SCA.

Note # C

"§ 2510. Definitions
....

(16) "readily accessible to the general public" means, with respect to a
radio communication, that such communication is not--

(A) scrambled or encrypted:

(B) transmitted using modulation techniques whose essential parameters
have been withheld from the public with the intention of preserving the
privacy of such communication;

(C) carried on a subcarrier or other signal subsidiary to a radio
transmission;

(D) transmitted over a communication system provided by a common
carrier, unless the communication is a tone only paging system
communication; or

(E) transmitted on frequencies allocated under part 25, subpart D, E, or
F of part 74, or part 94 of the Rules of the Federal Communications
Commission, unless, in the case of a communication transmitted on a
frequency allocated under part 74 that is not exclusively allocated to
broadcast auxiliary services, the communication is a two-way voice
communication by radio;"