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system: You are Steve Walford, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Marc Chabot about "Heres a UK guy".

They wrote:
MC> Hi Steve.
MC> More liberal?!?   If you walk in the streets with your scanner,
MC> are the bobbies running to you with their clubs?
MC> What are the restrictions in England?

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assistant: In a message of 04 Jan 97 Marc Chabot wrote to me:
I dont think I would walk in the street using my scanner, in the
car maybe
Well the way I read it in the US you are allowed to listen to
anything as long as it is not specifically prohibited.
Whats the situation in Canada.
Across here it seems to be you can only listen to what is allowed
on your licence, I will stand corrected but I think it mentions
somewhere broadcast for the general public etc.
Also it mentions somewhere if you accidently hear something you
shouldn't it is an offence to tell someone else what you heard.
The police in the next county have publicly stated that if they
catch anyone with a scanner they will check the memories and if
they contain police frequencies they will prosecute
Note I would say our county is akin to a state or province
At one time it was frowned on if you used a scanner at airports to
monitor the traffic but the last time I was at Manchester I seem to
remember reading that they allowed there use, but reserved the
right to withdraw the permission if they wished.
What is the situation in Canada / US
Steve Walford
system: You are Jeff Jenkins, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Raymond Hartley about "Re: need bbs".

They wrote:
RH> Hello all, If anyone know of a BBS that carries this message base in
RH> Greensboro or High Point NC please sen me a message and let me know
RH> of the board.

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assistant: *** Quoting Raymond Hartley from a message to All ***
Don't know if you found a local board yet...  if you haven't I might be
fairly close, in Nashville TN.
If you absoltuely cannot find a local BBS you might want to try asking local
sysops who carry fidonet to add it.  Good luck!
TNL BBS in Nashville, TN   615-353-9325 modem,  615-353-9367 ISDN
The Normalizer, B.A.N./King Rat #43
system: You are John Fender, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "".

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assistant: Does anyone know the tecnical name for the voice scrambling systems
used in cordless phones and 2 way radio communications?  How does it
work and how safe am I using it in my business?  No hunches please, I
need info from someone who really knows this technology.
.
Thanks                   jwf
system: You are Mike Flenz, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Rat Shack Scanners".

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assistant: Hello Everyone,
I've been pretty busy here and haven't had the time to monitor the
net much.  I need to purchase a new hand-held scanner for my mother,
but I haven't been keeping up with the latest offerings since the
PRO-43 days.  I'm looking for advice on what current Radio Shack
hand-held scanners are made by GRE, and which are triple-conversion.
I would like this scanner to have about 100 channels, at least 5
banks, and cover 800 Mhz.  Any recommendations pro or con are
welcome.
73,
Mike
system: You are Ken Snipes, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to John Fender about "Cordless From The BOOK".

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assistant: Wish I could find one of them FCC guys when the CBers
crank up their
wattage and knock my cordless phone off frequency.
Got any
suggestions?
jwfs
system: You are Marc Chabot, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steve Walford about "stupid laws uk/can/usa".

They wrote:
>The police in the next county have publicly stated that if they
>catch anyone with a scanner they will check the memories and if
>they contain police frequencies they will prosecute
>Note I would say our county is akin to a state or province
>Well the way I read it in the US you are allowed to listen to
>anything as long as it is not specifically prohibited.
>Whats the situation in Canada.

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assistant: Hi Steve.
Outch!
Your MPs must be nuts to make such laws.
We can listen to ALL freq. but we have to keep our mouth shut,
even with cellular we can listen in with the difference that in
the very early 90's (or late 80's, can't remember the year) some
politicians got screwed with an intercepted cellullar call in
quebec city (the Wylhelmy/Tremblay case) and with that event they
tried to rip us off of our "frequency rights" but they managed to
cover they asses without too much freedom infringement for the
public because the medias can now be kick real hard in the butt
if they divulge private phone calls and such...
Canada beeing the UNofficial 51st state, the crazy amarican
laws on cellular ban as affected us too.  All radio shack's
scanners sold in Canada are the same sold in the US with the
result that we can no longer buy cellular capable scanners.
I can walk in the street with my PRO-43 without any policemen
harassment.  I once talk to a local policeman about an event
without problems (had to shut my big yap but didn't, so my chat
with him was "illegal"):
                         a patrolman was chasing 3 men in a car
and one of them was shooting bullets at him with a .22LR rifle
(in the USA the criminals would have used a 15" navy gun BUT
with a legal 10 rounds magazine, heh heh heh).  One was shot dead
with a single .357magnum round and the 2 other guys ran away.
        MC
system: You are Nathan Bollinger, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Andy Ulrich about "Re: Cordless phone freq's".

They wrote:
>>Isn't there a FCC reg that states if your cordless phone interferes with
>>someone else's electronic equipment that you must discontinue it's use?
>
> NB> They've even screwed up THAT law! Now, if you're receiving
> NB> interference from another person's phone (or anything else
> NB> you have to write a letter of complaint to the manufacturer of the
> NB> device that's being inerfered with! It might help TV manufacturers to
> NB> develope better filtering, but those of us who are picking up phone
> NB> converstaions because of a faulty cellular or cordless ohone are just
> NB> plain criminals in the government's eyes.
>
>The FCC sounds like a huge waste of tax dollars!
>

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assistant: lectronic),
Well, you really can't blame the FCC for making that particular law. It's a
cost-cutting thing. Uncle Sam just won't give 'em the bucks to pursue
interference complaints anymore. In all honesty, the FCC lobbied AGAINST the
ECPA. It's the dang cell phone manufacturers that pushed to make monitoring
cell phones a crime.
system: You are John Fender, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Ken Snipes about "Cordless From The BOOK".

They wrote:
-> Wish I could find one of them FCC guys when the CBers
-> crank up their
-> wattage and knock my cordless phone off frequency.
-> Got any
-> suggestions?
-> jwfs
-> --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0GY
-> * Origin: MTCC BBS! (704)652-0330  Telnet/FTP:
-> bbs.mcdowell.cc.nc.us (1:3666/501)
-> John, do like i had to do , after the FCC told me they would not do
-> about a local CBers running 600 watts, and blanking out TV & telephones
-> square blocks...
-> a CB  and a dummy load, and fire the thing up on the channel they talk
-> you are close enought it will blank there rec.  good enough..  if they
-> hear, who are they gonna talk to..
-> The one next street over, cut off his amp, and so i cut off the
-> transmitter...GRIN
->      o ��Ŀ
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-> ... "So she said it was either her or the ham radio....OVER"

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assistant: anything
for 3
on.. if
ant
:)
  Thanks for the advice.
  When I reported my problem to the local police, you should have seen
the look on their,( Duh!), face.
                                jwf
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system: You are Gary Saffer, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mike Flenz about "RAT SHACK SCANNERS".

They wrote:
MF>Hello Everyone,
MF>I've been pretty busy here and haven't had the time to monitor the
MF>net much.  I need to purchase a new hand-held scanner for my mother,
MF>but I haven't been keeping up with the latest offerings since the
MF>PRO-43 days.  I'm looking for advice on what current Radio Shack
MF>hand-held scanners are made by GRE, and which are triple-conversion.
MF>I would like this scanner to have about 100 channels, at least 5
MF>banks, and cover 800 Mhz.  Any recommendations pro or con are
MF>welcome.

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assistant: Mike, the handheld that I reccomend is not a RS/GRE, but the RELM HS-
200. The radio has 200 channels, 10 banks, 10 priorities, covers all of
the bands that you seem to be interested in, and best of all, at least
from my perspective has PL and DPL built in. I've had mine for about a
month and I can't tell you how happy I am with it. Great sensitivity,
great selectivity, and the PL/DPL feature works great. Price is
reasonable too, I got mine for $249.00.
Gary
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system: You are Bobbie Beers, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bruce Clark about "cell phone monitoring".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Bruce Clark to Bobbie Beers <=-
BC> Sorry no. None of my scanners have a hookup, that I know of.
BC> My best ones are a couple of 2004's.

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assistant: That's the scanner that's sitting here doing nothing! I've also got the 2006.
Both are great scanners.
Bobbie
... <<<< ScanRadio Co-Moderator                     BobbieB1@aol.com >>>>
system: You are Bobbie Beers, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Kerry Kowalski about "Re: cell phone monitoring".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Kerry Kowalski to Bobbie Beers <=-
BB> One of the news programs showed a Radio Shack scanner, looked
BB> something like the 2006 but the keys seemed much whiter than mine.
BB> But it was definitely a Radio Shack model, I saw the name.
BB> Bobbie
KK> Could be a 2032 if there are less keys. It does the buisness band...

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assistant: Could be, Rocky, I've never one, since I had no interest in buying one when
they came out.
Bobbie
... Ham Echo Moderator             KB5RPI               BobbieB1@aol.com
system: You are Will Sperling, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "February CARMA Meeting".

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assistant: The next meeting of the Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Association
(CARMA) will be on Saturday, February 8, 1997 at the Destiny Restaurant,
1440 Rand Rd., Des Plaines, Il. Lunch starts at 11:30 am, and the
meeting begins promptly at 1:00 pm. You must purchase lunch because we
get the private room for free!  It has been said that you can get more
information from a single CARMA meeting than from any single reference
source anywhere!
Handouts, new product reviews, frequencies, and items for sale/trade
many times are brought to CARMA meetings. Our average attendance is no
less than 45 people, and as many as 100+ attend. Subscriptions to the
newsletter and BBS will be taken at the meeting, as well as past info
can be obtained from CARMA members.
If you are interested in scanning/monitoring, police/fire/ems,
railroads, cellular, satellites, media/press, ham radio or any & all
forms of communications, then CARMA is the group you will find most
interesting! We have over 500 members in our group!
For further information, leave email here or at my Internet email
address, login to the BBS, or FAX a request to the number below.
Will Sperling, WA9YHX, Administrative Sysop
The Chicago Area Radio Monitoring Association (CARMA) BBS
Box 40, Westmont, Il. 60559-0040
BBS:  630-852-1292
FAX:  630-512-0609
Email:  WA9YHX@AOL.COM
system: You are Chuck Mandus, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steve Walford about "Heres a UK guy".

They wrote:
SW>Well the way I read it in the US you are allowed to listen to
SW>anything as long as it is not specifically prohibited.
SW>Whats the situation in Canada.
SW>The police in the next county have publicly stated that if they
SW>catch anyone with a scanner they will check the memories and if
SW>they contain police frequencies they will prosecute
SW>At one time it was frowned on if you used a scanner at airports to
SW>monitor the traffic but the last time I was at Manchester I seem to
SW>remember reading that they allowed there use, but reserved the
SW>right to withdraw the permission if they wished.

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assistant: Steve,
        Well, you can listen to anything (for now) except to cellular
        phones which are in the 825 - 845 and 869 - 894 MHz bands.
        Canada is the same as us except they can listen to cellular
        telephones.  However, it is a crime to divulge what you hear
        over the scanner to anyone else, especially if it is in a
        commission of a crime or to make a profit from the info.  We
        have a big controversy going on here about some couple who
        intercepted a cellular phone call of New Gingrich, Speaker of
        the House, taped it, and turned it over to the House Ethics
        Committee.  I think there is more here myself.  It is sort of
        like our version of your "Squidgy Tapes" where somebody over in
        the UK intercepted a cellular phone call from Prince Charles a
        few years back.
        It's a shame that it is like that.  I'm sure no one will come
        after you unless you call attention to yourself such as
        getting in the way of emergency personell if you chase police
        cars and ambulances.  Other than that, it is an unenforceable
        law.  Many times, the law tries to do the impossible and as
        my best friend always says, "the law is not sacrosanct"
        meaning "the law is not sacred."  The best thing to do is wear
        Walkman earphones and just say you are listening to a soccer
        game, the BBC, or your favorite radio program.
        I carry my scanner with me everywhere, to Greater Pittsburgh
        Int'l Airport, the City/County Building and Allegheny County
        Courthouse in downtown Pittsburgh, to wherever, and no one
        bothers me. The most I get is people who are interested in
        what's going on.
Chuck, just some thoughts and impressions.....
DE KA3WRW
system: You are Holger Skurbe, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steve Walford about "Heres a UK guy".

They wrote:
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assistant: Thanks, it's very interesting to see AM still being used in PS
communications.
We have a Statewide SPEN channel that all PD's can talk to each other
on. Usually crimes in progress or chases. The county has a common fire
alert channel.
Most States here have a statewide common PD freq.
system: You are Holger Skurbe, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Mike Anthony about "scanner".

They wrote:
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assistant: Send your address to me:  Fax 908-840-1390 or call my bbs: 908-840-6921
and send you information on the whole line of Uniden/Bearcat scanners.
system: You are Holger Skurbe, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to John Fender about "Voice Scrambling".

They wrote:
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assistant: The most common and lowest form of scrambling is called Voice Inversion.
It sounds like a squawking noise when listened to over a non-coded
receiver.
From there, encription goes digital. Actually changing voice sounds to
digital 0's and 1's which is decoded on the other end. This is the
highest form and can use many different "keys" to scramble the voice.
The voice inversion is usually enough to keep the casual listener from
understanding voice messages, but is prone to decoding due to it's
rather uncomplicated form.
system: You are Keith Bucher, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Gary Saffer about "Rat Shack Scanners".

They wrote:
GS> Mike, the handheld that I reccomend is not a RS/GRE, but the RELM HS-
GS> 200.

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assistant: Quoting Gary Saffer to Mike Flenz 01-22-97  13:35
Hello Gary, what is the frequency coverage of the GS200?  Does it have
FM wide, and how many of the TV channels will it receive?  And
how's your average battery life been?  Thanks for your assistance.
I'm thinking this scanner might be one I'll buy.  Keith Bucher
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system: You are Tom Pinner, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Frank Glover about "Cell Phone Monitoring".

They wrote:
FG> Yes, I'm *intensely* interested in how this turns out. Espically as
FG> it  *appears* they got the entire conversation in question. Unless the
FG> Speaker  was in essentially one location the whole time, it suggests
FG> they had both the  hardware and knowledge to follow his conversation
FG> from cell to cell. That  plus the presence of a recorder suggests it
FG> was much more than casual  listening.
FG>
FG> I mean, we seem to have violations of the TDDRA, the ECPA *and* the
FG> Communications Act....

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assistant: Hello Frank,
 What if they (congress) decide that anyone who owns a pre-ECPA scanner
MUST turn them in by passing another worthless law?
tOm
PS. Nice to be back on FIDO again. hello everyone.
... "Mr. Worf, fire phasers at Frank" ... Zzzzzap!
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system: You are Steve Walford, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "317.850".

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assistant: Yorkshire England
A work colleague has heared a transmission on 317.850 talking about
Magic 89 and 90 and data transmission, aparently with a outside
aerial the data transmission swamps the voice signal but with just
the indoor aerial the voice transmission comes through
In my book the frequency is listed as Nationwide Air Defence Region
any one have any more info.
Steve Walford
system: You are Kerry Kowalski, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Bobbie Beers about "Re: cell phone monitoring".

They wrote:
KK> Could be a 2032 if there are less keys. It does the buisness band...
BB> Could be, Rocky, I've never one, since I had no interest in buying
BB> one when they came out.
BB> Bobbie

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assistant: On Tuesday, January 21st, 1997 - Bobbie Beers wrote:
Nor did I... I picked mine up used in 95 Opened it up without
instructions with the help of a schematic then proceded to add 3,200
chanels and a LED s-meter. Nice little unit that receives well where
ever it can tune! Not all that many images either. Made by GRE...
  Rocky
system: You are Scott Hoffman, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to John Fender about "Scrambling".

They wrote:
JF> Does anyone know the tecnical name for the voice scrambling systems
JF> used in cordless phones and 2 way radio communications?  How does it
JF> work and how safe am I using it in my business?  No hunches please, I
JF> need info from someone who really knows this technology.

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assistant: I replied to that with like a 6 part message, lots of details. Check out
the  BUSINESS TELEPHONES FIDO Conference..
system: You are Nathan Bollinger, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Steve Walford about "Re: Heres a UK guy".

They wrote:
> All the folks I know that have scanners couldn't really care
>  less what they tune into

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assistant: If that were the case, scanning would be a very boring hobby. B-)
system: You are Ivy Iverson, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Scanners message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to John Fender about "Cordless phone scrambling".

They wrote:
-=> On 01-20-97  11:45, John Fender said to All,<=-
-=>"About ...,"<=-
JF> Does anyone know the tecnical name for the voice scrambling systems
JF> used in cordless phones and 2 way radio communications?  How does it
JF> work and how safe am I using it in my business?  No hunches please, I
JF> need info from someone who really knows this technology.
�> Moderator: MufoNet Dream Link & DreamLink Chat.<�

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assistant: Hi, John;
There are several methods which can be used. The most secure is encrypted
digital.  Spread spectrum would probably be next followed by "straight"
digital.  All three would be far beyond the capability of the average
scannist to listen to.
On the low end of the scale would be the inversion scramblers.  Anyone
who knows much about electronics can build an inversion scrambler/
descrambler, probably for under $20.  (This can also be used as a voice
shifter, like those used in radio/TV interviews where the interviewe
wishes anomonity and the ones used in some expen$ive phones to change the
voice!)
Catch you later... Good luck.
   Ivy
... FREEZE!!!  Put down the scanner and back away slowly!
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