From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
Subject: Re: Radar detector DETECTORS?
Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
Distribution: na
Nntp-Posting-Host: valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca
Lines: 21

In article <1993Apr19.231050.2196@Rapnet.Sanders.Lockheed.Com> babb@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com (Scott Babb) writes:
>
>The Federal Communications Act of 1934 made it *legal* for you to
>operate a radio receiver of any kind, on any frequency (including
>X, K, and Ka bands) in the United States.  The Electronic
>Communications Privacy Act of 1989(?) restricted the FCA of 1934
>by making it illegal to receive the land-mobile telephone service,
>including (I believe) cellular phones.

Illegal to receive land-mobile telephone service?  Don't you have to have a
mobile reciever to even have land-mobile telephone service?  What about
ship-to-shore telephone service?

>No restriction was placed
>on receiving RADAR (or, curiously, cordless phones.)  Enforcement
>of the Virginia law is in violation of the FCA of 1934.

Isin't there some kind of rule (regulation, law, whatever) in some
juristictions that prohibit the use of *police band* recievers
in vehicles?  And that radar transmissions are included in the police band 
so they get covered by the same regulation?