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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Radar detector DETECTORS?
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 04:37:39 GMT
References: <1993Apr20.022922.11861@julian.uwo.ca>
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In article <1993Apr20.022922.11861@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
>>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?

Those rules/regulations/laws would be subject to the same attack:  that
they are attempting to preempt federal authority to regulate (or not)
radio communications.  Of course, as the original poster noted, court
challenges of this kind can get expensive.
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All work is one man's work.             | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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