I've tried that already. Most don't even bother to reply.


"W4JLE" w4jle(remove to wrote in message ...
Let me suggest you simply e-mail the embassy's in Washington and ask them.


"victoria patel" wrote in message
om...
Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam,
Laos, Cambodia, Saudi-Arabia, India, Pakistan, Bulgaria, Romania,

Sure, if you have a year off to spare and $10-12K. That's what I
figure it will cost me, and I don't travel first-class...

"Frank" wrote in message news:01c3e791$1ca73460$0125250a@qkzypzzvgkuqhwah ...
victoria patel . ..

^ Egypt,
^ Israel,
^ Jordan,
^ Syria,
^ Turkey,
^ Indonesia,
^ Singapore,
^ Vietnam,
^ Laos,
^ Cambodia,
^ Saudi-Arabia,
^ India,
^ Pakistan,
^ Bulgaria,
^ Romania,
^ Croatia,
^ Japan,
^ China,
^ Argentina,
^ Bolivia,
^ Brazil,
^ Chile,
^ Ecuador,
^ Paraguay,
^ South Africa,
^ Mozambique,
^ Kenya,
^ Uganda,
^ Tanzania,
^ Nigeria,
^ Ghana
^ Benin.

^ I'm planning a trip around the world...

Can I go with you?

Frank

victoria patel . ..

^ Sure, if you have a year off to spare and $10-12K.

I'd never be able to save that much on my income.

How many of those languages do you speak? If only one or two then a
wide-range radio receiver will probably only be good for listening to
aviation communications.

Frank

I'm fluent in Hindi and Urdu (parents came from India and Pakistan
respectively) as well as Arabic, French, Spanish and German. I'm a
linguist by profession and teach language skills to employees of
companies who send their people abroad. I've found from previous
travel that in many cities a lot of embassy/consular radio traffic is
in either English or French, regardless of what language is spoken in
the country...

"Frank" wrote in message news:01c3e857$39c13cf0$0125250a@knxfxalifdxfpylf ...
victoria patel . ..

^ Sure, if you have a year off to spare and $10-12K.

I'd never be able to save that much on my income.

How many of those languages do you speak? If only one or two then a
wide-range radio receiver will probably only be good for listening to
aviation communications.

Frank

victoria patel . ..

^ I'm a linguist by profession and teach language skills to
^ employees of companies who send their people abroad.

Then you could learn something by listening to public service frequencies in
these other countries that will benefit you in your profession.

Good luck.

Frank

"Frank" wrote in message news:01c3e91b$6eba7c90$0125250a@mzfhtpbqaunvpfaj ...
victoria patel . ..

^ I'm a linguist by profession and teach language skills to
^ employees of companies who send their people abroad.

Then you could learn something by listening to public service frequencies in
these other countries that will benefit you in your profession.

Good luck.

Frank

Which is quite true, however it doesn't solve my original problem:
finding out which of these countries will hassle me for carrying my
VR-500 and which won't...

Ben de Heer wrote in message . 1.4...
(victoria patel) wrote in
om:

I'm fluent in Hindi and Urdu (parents came from India and Pakistan
respectively) as well as Arabic, French, Spanish and German. I'm a
linguist by profession and teach language skills to employees of
companies who send their people abroad. I've found from previous
travel that in many cities a lot of embassy/consular radio traffic is
in either English or French, regardless of what language is spoken in
the country...


I could learn you Dutch ..... ;-)

Ben.

Dank U well mijnheer, maar Nederlands is reeds niet onbekend naar mij!

victoria patel schrieb:

Anyone know a website which lists scanning laws by country?

Hello Victoria.

Sorry. I don't know a website you are looking for. Laws are changing
faster than rabbits make babies... ;-) So it would be a sysiphus work to
keep such a list up to date.
If you are interested in the german laws regarding to scanners i would
email them to you on request. Or just join to the german speaking group
on news:de.alt.radio-scanner
There's a lot of well knowing people on that subject. Please feel free
to post questions in english. But as you are familar with the german
language it is much easier to explain something in german ;-)
Basic thing in germany is: You are allowed to "own" everything(!) on
receivers and(!) transmitters (wich was forbidden 8 years ago, in case
not having a licence).
Nowadays the use(!) of scanners in germany is restricted on
CE-confirmation and to receive only transmissions directed to the
public. So listening to any other services may cause some difficulties
if cought _in_flagranti_. Some laws are somewhat indifferent. So some
judges (with rare basical technical knowledge) tend to say: Services who
don't want to be listenable on (widely used) scanners will have to use
real encryption (not only voice inversion) to prevent unwanted
listening. But do not count on this....
Carrying a used(!) radio(-scanner) with you for personal use is no
problem on the customs. They are not interested in technical issiues
like CE-confirmation, frequency range, etc. But not having the CE, just
powering it up would be illegal. But who should bring an action on you
for this....? ;-)

regards,
Volker