tom@mims-iris.uucp (Tom Haapanen) (05/09/89)
In article <1989May8.152034.14415@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> sarathy@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Rajiv Sarathy) writes: > ... Thus ALL scanners (the ones which can receive police, > ambulance, etc.) signals are illegal, as are radar detectors. You must > also apply for transmitting at ANY frequency (including radio and television). > However, anywhere in Canada, no agency is going to charge you if you're using > a scanner to receive police, ambulance, or aircraft frequencies, as long as > you're not doing it for a commercial purpose. (ie. tow-truck operators are > not allowed to receive police frequencies in order to rush to scenes of > accidents before the police arrive to investigate). I was under the impression that scanner use was legal (Radio Shack sells them!) as long as you did not use it in your car/truck/whatever. Am I wrong? P.S. I put ont.general back in the list since this is not about radar detectors. :-) \tom haapanen tom@mims-iris.UWaterloo.CA watmims research group university of waterloo "Now, you didn't really expect my views to agree with my employer's, did you?"