Al Bell wrote in :

Newbie legal/detection questions:

I have been lurking here for a long time but haven't posted here
because it's hard for me to post from work. Now I'm on vacation.

Anyhow, I live in the New York metropolitan area and bought a scanner
right after 9/11 because I want to know more about what's going on.

Questions:

- Just how ferocious is the law prohibiting people from sharing what
they've heard over the scanner? In reality, can I tell my spouse about
interesting calls that I've heard? If I were a crime reporter, could I
legally call the police PR people to ask them about an incident I
learned about while monitoring the scanner? (Technically, of course,
that would be a form of sharing information with a third party.)

- I have a Radio Shack PRO-94 scanner. Just in case the authorities
ever do outlaw scanners, does my scanner actually emit some signal
while operating that could alert authorities to the fact that I'm
using it? To people "scanning for scanners," does a scanner appear to
be different from a regular radio or a regular television set?


There really is no law on what you do with the info you hear or even
record from a scanner.. The only thing the FCC does not like you to do is
retransmit cordless phone calls. other then that tell anyone you want,
record it all day long..



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