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- Date: 15 Nov 1992 09:58:42 GMT
- From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Cellular Snooping and Privacy Issues
- Reply-To: Jim.Rees@umich.edu
- Message-ID: <telecom12.844.10@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: University of Michigan CITI
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 844, Message 10 of 12
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- In article <telecom12.840.3@eecs.nwu.edu>, rick@ricksys.lonestar.org
- (Richard McCombs KB5SNF) writes:
-
- > I wonder if sales have increased since it will soon be illegal to sell
- > receivers that still include cellular (such as the Icom R100), also I
- > wonder if the new scanners will no longer be easily modifiable to
- > receive cellular?
-
- A local radio shop reports a large increase (about 10x) in the number
- of scanner sales since the law was passed. They didn't know whether
- the law would prohibit scanners that don't receive cellular out of the
- box but can be modified with a simple diode cut.
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