Airways Radio Chatter
... Whether or not it is legal listening in to airband channels has come up time after time with no definitive result.
Various Wireless Telegraphy Acts will be quoted - especially the
1949 Act - much quoted by Ham radio 'experts' - but for each 'expert' stating its illegal there will be many or more stating the opposite. When
the police at one time were broadcasting on the ordinary domestic radio waves you could walk into a police station and ask the same question of the police and you would walk away with two or more contradictary answeres. A Govt Minister has stated on radio it is NOT illegal - however a UK Govts reputation for acuracy may not be a good example to quote - Should it be illegal then the authorities would have a field day for arrests and convictions on Flying Display days open to the general public.
So far as the UK is concerned - legal or otherwise - Its a safe bet
that no one in authority will take the least notice of any anorak type listening in for purely innocent reasons.
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