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- From: bame@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Paul Bame)
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:56:08 GMT
- Subject: Re: Easily Modified?
- Message-ID: <76640001@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM>
- Organization: HP SESD, Fort Collins, CO
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!scd.hp.com!hpscdm!hplextra!hpfcso!hpfcbig!bame
- Newsgroups: alt.radio.scanner
- References: <LINNIG.92Nov11133434@m2000.dseg.ti.com>
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- In alt.radio.scanner, john@anasazi.com (John R. Moore) writes:
-
- > In article <LINNIG.92Nov11133434@m2000.dseg.ti.com> linnig@m2000.dseg.ti.com (Mike Linnig) writes:
- > ]How do you folks think "easily modified" will be defined by the FCC?
- > ]
- > ]Will the existing Radio Shack models be banned?
- > ] (cutting a diode is pretty easy)
- > I suspect so.
- > ]
- > ]Do you think Radio Shack will modify their design so that it fits the new FCC
- > ]rules and can still be used to pick up cellular? For example, they reprogram
- > ]the microprocessor to lock out cellular, but a black market in clone (modified)
- > ]microprocessors develops.
- > They won't do it on purpose, but this is a likely outcome. Perhaps the FCC
- > could require that the synthesize board be coated in epoxy or something,
- > but that would be pretty extreme. I suspect black market uprocessors
- > will spring up.
-
- This'd be an interesting market. Maybe we could finally get a uP
- for the PRO 200[456] with a COMPUTER INTERFACE - I seem to dimly remember
- the uP used has unconnected serial I/O pins... Another interesting
- market may be custom-tailored scanning software. I can see it now - a
- ZIF socket on every scanner for custom eproms :-)
-
- -Paul Bame N0KCL
-