On Dec 15, 10:31*pm, an_old_friend wrote:
On Dec 15, 8:32*pm, radioguy wrote:

On Dec 15, 8:21*am, wrote:

Also, the average person legally has a ereasonable expectation that
it's legal to use any channel on it when bought from a legal well-
known store.-

an interesting pov although a lot of say walmart radion do clearly
state on the boxes that a license is required

well, that's a little different. If it's stated on the box in big easy
to read letters (which most aren't. They're usually the very tiniest
print on the outside or the very tiniest print in the manual inside
that's still almost unradable even when using a magnifying glass),
then there's legally not a reasonable expectation that they can use
all the channels without a license.

Just some of them.

Theproblem is with most of the disclaimers being unreadable even with
a magnifying glass.

And my Motorla FRS/GMRS radio actually says on the outside of the case
"no license required".

The reasonable expectation there is that a license isn't required to
use it at all .

Actually, most of the frs/gmrs radios I've seen for sale say in very
big easy to read letters "NO LICENSE REQUIRED" and only say in the
tiniest
print virtually unreadable without a magnifyting glass, "a gmrs
license is required for use on gmrs frequencies".

One of my local tv station duopolies also did that trick.

At the required hourly I.D., they would have in very big letters and
logo taking up virtually the whole screen, the i.d. of the station
that it was NOT.

And have the i.d. of the station that it WAS in very very tiny letters
at the bottom of the screen, unreadable without a magnifying glass.

And no, it wasn't because of "my eyes".

Even kids with good eyes wouldn't have been able to read the legal
i.d. of the station it was without a magnifying glass.

It wasn't even as big as the print on this message I'm writing right
now. And my computer is currently set on the smallest print the
computer is
capable of. !!!!