User's Manual
Table Of Contents
6
SCANNING
LEGAL
L
Y
Scanning
L
egally
Your scanner covers frequencies used
by many
different groups including police and fire
departments,
ambulance services,
government
agencies,
private
companies, amateur radio services, military
operations,
pager services,
and wireline (telephone and
telegraph)
service providers.
It
is legal
to
listen
to
almost
every
transmission your scanner can receive. However,
there
are some transmissions you should never
intentionally
listen
to.
These
include:
• Telephone conversations
(cellular,
cordless,
or
other
means of
private telephone
signal
transmission)
• Paging
transmissions
• Any
intentionally
decoded scrambled
or encrypted
transmissions
According
to the
Electronic Communications
Privacy
Act (ECPA),
you are subject
to
fines and
possible
imprisonment
for
intentionally listening to, using,
or
divulging the
contents
of
such a transmission
unless
you have
the
consent
of
a party
to the communication
(unless such activity is otherwise illegal). This
scanner
has been designed
to
prevent reception
of illegal
transmissions. This is done
to
comply
with the legal
requirement
that
scanners
be manufactured
so as
to
not
be easily
modifiable
to
pick
up
those
transmissions.
Do
not
open your scanner’s case
to
make
any
modifications
that
could allow
it to
pick
up
transmissions
that
are illegal
to
monitor. Doing
so could subject you
to
legal penalties. We encourage responsible, legal
scanner
use. In some areas,
mobile use
of
this scanner is
unlawful
or requires a permit. Check the laws
in
your area.
It
is
also
illegal
in
many areas
to
interfere
with
the duties
of public
safety officials by traveling
to
the scene
of
an
incident
without authorization.
DRAFT