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Old 17th Jun 2011, 18:07
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fireflybob
 
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Ok technically it's not in accordance with the Wireless Telegraphy Act.

In practice so long as you're not up to any criminal intent or feed anything to the media, you're very unlikely to get convicted unless you walk down the road past Mr. Plod with your scanner blasting out and the frequencies of the local police etc loaded in the memory.

It's not illegal to own a scanner! Just be sensibly discrete (use headphones?) and enjoy listening in.

As has been said previously the law is the law but I also cannot understand why HMG cannot relax this one but, there again, we are now living in a police state. You'd have thought the first to make it illegal would be USA but I can sit listening to JFK tower/approach etc on live atc on line but cannot, legally, listening to the puddle jumpers doing circuits at the local airfield.

There are plenty of other things on the market via ebay etc which are far more hazardous to a/c ops which nobody does anything about.
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