[ILHam] State Law / Chicago City Ordinance Regarding Amateur Radio? Any Experts?

[Zack Widup]

I never heard of it. That's pretty outlandish to me.  Did they confiscate 
your radio(s)?

On the week of Thanksgiving I took my VX-6 on a bus trip from Champaign IL 
to Kenosha WI.  I had a 2-hour layover in Chicago and sat and chatted with 
a couple people on the WA9ORC repeater.  No one in the bus terminal 
bothered me.

I planned on doing the same this Sunday on the same route for Christmas. 
Should I not bother to get the VX-6 out?

73, Zack W9SZ

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Dan Hensley wrote:

> Good Afternoon Gents,
>
> I was stopped by the Chicago Police today near Milwaukee and Atrill because I had my new VX-177 in hand and having a QSO with WV9MJS on the York Radio Club Repeater, on the way to my local church. The officer stated that my radio was illegal, and that I was doing all sorts of nonsense. There were 4 plainclothes officers total.
>
> They quoted some law or city ordinance regarding scanners / amateur radio. Upon showing them my license and ARRL membership card, they said it was Bull**** and that they were going to confiscate my stuff. Upon their search, they found on my person, a VX-170 2 meter HT as well. They said they had never seen it or heard of it, and reiterated their allegations without explaining the stop.
>
> No arrest took place, and of course, I came back clean when they ran me.
>
> What do I do now? Any experts on this out here? No police bashing please, this is serious.
>
> What to do now?
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