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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
- Subject: Re: How to get a FM sub-carrier radio?
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 14:52:23 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- References: <1992Dec30.140523.19084@ucc.su.OZ.AU> <1992Dec30.132658.586@hnrc.tufts.edu> <Dec.30.16.31.25.1992.27040@joes.garage.com>
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- In article <Dec.30.16.31.25.1992.27040@joes.garage.com> shibumi@joes.garage.com writes:
- >jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal) writes:
- >> Is it still legal to listen to FM subcarrier signals? I have another
- >>recollection of having heard that legislation was passed to outlaw listening by
- >>those who did not formally subscribe to the service.
- >
- >No, it is no longer legal. ECPA changed the rules.
-
- According to the ECPA, listening to any subcarriers of FM broadcast is
- illegal. This makes it illegal to listen to FM in stereo (since the multiplex
- L-R signal is broadcast as a subcarrier at 19 KHz). This is not an
- intelligent law.
- --scott
-