[Lowfer] Re: Group Part-5 license for LF???

[Bill Ashlock]

Mike,

I think your examples below have more to do with theft of services and 
eavesdropping on private conversations than questionable receiving of a 
permitted frequencies that carry, basically, public domain information. I 
can't speak for all Pt 5  transmissions, but there's no way that anyone 
could get in trouble by listening to the type of experimental transmissions 
that we are planning to send (except for the possibility of someone going 
insane after copying a typical Friday night session :)). Perhaps some 
details covering the types of planned information content could be placed in 
the application, if this is a concern.

Bill

>Good question, Alberto.
>
>Let me answer it this way:
>
>In this country we pride ourselves on freedom and openness. But yet the
>Government prohibits us from listening to certain frequencies. And, in some
>admittedly unique cases, people have been tried in court for listening to
>Cell phone conversations. Portable phones we can listen to all night. Cell
>phone monitoring gets you jail time.
>
>I know Ham stations that were issued "Cease and Desist" orders from the FCC
>for "rebroadcasting" the national weather service radio forecasts during
>tornado (cyclone) watches.
>
>A simpler case? Our county sheriff (the local police) needs two licenses:
>one for the police band and one for the fire band. The police band license
>won't permit him to chat on the fire band service even he is responding to 
>a
>fire.
>
>And in the "Post 9/11" weirdness that we are currently enduring it is not
>difficult to envision a much more authoritarian nation in the near future.
>We have these new laws called "Patriot Acts" that (IMHO) are quietly
>stripping away my privacy and liberties.
>
>
>George Orwell was off by only 20 years. Go figure...
>
>Mike
>wa1ptc

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