Mobile scanner laws
 

I recently got my CDL license and am thinking of taking an over the road
job. I've been a scanner for years, but never looked into the laws. I've
heard that Michigan has very tough anti-scanner laws. Does anybody have any
inside into other state's laws. Do these laws differentiate between a
handheld scanner and a mobile scanner?

Perhaps there is a web site dedicated to this very question.

Geek wrote:

I recently got my CDL license and am thinking of taking an over the
road
job. I've been a scanner for years, but never looked into the laws.
I've
heard that Michigan has very tough anti-scanner laws. Does anybody
have any
inside into other state's laws. Do these laws differentiate between a
handheld scanner and a mobile scanner?

Perhaps there is a web site dedicated to this very question.

Google is your friend...
http://www.fordyce.org/scanning/scan.../scanlaws.html
www.afn.org/~afn09444/scanlaws/

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enough people to make it worth the effort." -Herm Albright

In article , says...
Perhaps there is a web site dedicated to this very question.

Just yesterday I saw where someone had a website like this. Ill be
damned if I can remember where I saw it.
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Dwayne
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ScanFindlay/

Do these laws differentiate between a
handheld scanner and a mobile scanner?

I don't know. I do know that several people in the shortwave and cscanner
newsgroups consider the R3 as "NOT a scanner", even though under the legal
definition of the legal U.S. laws, it is legally considered "scanner".

The U.S. laws define whether a radio is a scanner or not by how many channels
it has and how fast it scans through them, plus I think maybe a few other
things also.

Legally, the IC-R3 "is a scanner".

Despite many people saying that the IC-R3 "is only a communications receiver
and is NOT a scanner", under U.S. law, it IS legally "a scanner".

The number of channels it has, frequencies it covers, and how fast it scans
between the channels maake it so.

I just can't remember any of the websites that listed the laws, but they were
posted here at least once by someone.

Here's a place to get you started:

http://www.afn.org/~afn09444/scanlaws/

In general, if you were to get your ham license, you would be mostly
exempt from most scanner laws.
73s Mike
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Geek wrote:
I recently got my CDL license and am thinking of taking an over the road
job. I've been a scanner for years, but never looked into the laws. I've
heard that Michigan has very tough anti-scanner laws. Does anybody have any
inside into other state's laws. Do these laws differentiate between a
handheld scanner and a mobile scanner?

Perhaps there is a web site dedicated to this very question.

Geek wrote:
(snip)
: Do these laws differentiate between a
: handheld scanner and a mobile scanner?

Yes, I think some states do, but I can't rmeember where. I think that
having a scanner that is not "installed" in the vehicle (ie. a handheld)
is OK, but an "installed" scanner is not. But there are places that don't
allow either :-(

Again, the laws vary from place to place.

Richard in Boston, MA, USA