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November 4th 03, 09:44 PM
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Scott wrote:
wrote: I want receiver that can pick up from about 500 Khz to about 2.5 or 3 GHz, but does NOT have the cellular freqs blocked. Any suggestions? Hal - One could theoretically take an afternoon trip into Canada and grab any number of scanners with that coverage, unblocked. For instance, the Icom R3 receives 0.495-2450 MHz can be acquired from many retailers for approx. $599.00 CAD/$446.983 USD. 0ur merchants cannot secure cell unblocked sales to non-Canadian citizens, but with personal FCC approval that prohibition is waived for Americans. Although, Im sure some have circumvented that requirement by simply paying over the counter with Canadian cash, instead of trying to use an identifying credit card. I would never condone such a thing, of course. I'm sure that Hal could get one of his Canadian listeners to buy a set for him. I'm not sure how the Canadian govt would stop a Canadian citizen buying a set then reselling it to an American friend. I know that software licenses in the US usually give a list of embargoed nations that the software purchaser should not "be an agent of or be controlled by"; but in practice anybody with cash can go to most software retailers and buy anything off the shelf without any citizenship checks. The caveats regarding digitalization are legitimate ; however, North America is presently a forest of analog repeaters: cellular communications are very accessible. As a cogent aside, the 40 mhz and 900 mhz cordless phone bands are still highly saturated, as well. Really? I thought those were abandoned long ago. Shortwave reception isn't bad on some handeld scanners, either. I recently discovered your WBCQ broadcast here in Canada , some 500 miles away from their transmission centre and pull it in comfortably. Maine is the northernmost point in the continental US (what Yanks call the part of the US that excludes Alaska and Hawaii; also called "the lower 48") so that is no surprise. Domestic SW stations in the US are prohibited from broadcasting to domestic audiences; but stations bcing in English regularly file coverage maps for tx to South America and nobody at the FCC seems to care. Congratulations on your 4th year. In a country where "free speech" is almost uniquely true to its name ( for now!), your critics - though misaligned with some of your ideas- should unequivocally support Americans' right to voice them. They certainly have no qualms when it comes to screaming out *theirs*. +Cheers+ I'm sure you're familiar with the term "hate speech". That and religious programming make up most private US SW broadcasting. (WBCQ has some offbeat, pirate style stuff.) Considering how much antisemitism is on US shortwave, I'm surprised that the big Jewish lobbies don't actively work on shutting it down. I personally am all for free speech as long as somebody doesn't advocate physically harming others. IMO Hal has crossed this line sometimes. |
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