Regarding 'legality', if you have an FRTO licence and wish to listen to the 'licensed broadcasts' being made 'for navigation' by other 'licensed radio operators'........?? All a bit 'big brother-ish' - and the Enforcement branch would be better employed rounding up pirate broadcasters and illegal transmitter operators than bothering a few innocent spotters.
When I was on my Hunter course some years ago, one of the blokes had a cheap and nasty 'multi band' radio receiver - one of those things you'd see advertised in the weekend papers. One day it fell onto the crewroom floor and this must have done something weird to its IF cans because it started picking up all manner of transmissions! Instead of air band VHF it would pick up Westward TV sound on Band 3 (around 206 MHz), so we stuck a picture of the Wetstward TV test card onto its speaker grille - but we also found that it would now tune up into the UHF military air band! So effective was it that my boss was having a cup of coffee in the crewroom one day when he heard a Hunter pilot (me) telling his leader that he'd got a suspected engine snag, was jettisoning his drop tanks and coming home! The boss was on to ATC in a flash - they had no knowledge of the problem until the leader came up and told them a few minutes later! They never did discover how he'd found out!
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