Re: Hole in 900Mhz
FRED,
The cellular companies years ago convinced the FCC and the Federal Government to make the privacy act law. Unfortunatley you are correct. If you build your "homebrew" and it can receive
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PATRICK MASON <fcr222@...>
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#121
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Re: RT Systems FT-60 Software Opinions?
Thanks Clint, s1moller, and Fred for your feedback.
Fred, I haven't ordered the RT software yet. I wanted to see how satisfied the current users are. I realize that, with the FT-60 being newly
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Mark Gardner
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#119
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Re: Hole in 900Mhz
The activity (listening to cellular conversations) prohibited by
the statute is a "crime of specific intent". That is, you must intend to
tune and listen to the conversation; not just
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Daniel Morisseau
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#118
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Re: Hole in 900Mhz
Patrick,
It has always been my understanding that it is illegal to reveal what you
monitor to a third party. But are you telling me, that if I was an
experimenter, and I built a homebrew radio that
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Fred Jacobowitz
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#117
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Re: Hole in 900Mhz
Remember that there are still a lot of analog cell towers in use, and even more cell phones that still have analog capabilities. Therefore you are still able to hear those people that are using the
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Joshua Miller <jemiller@...>
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Re: Hole in 900Mhz
FYI,
I guess the law needs to be changed at some point in time!
That will happen when the receivers will be able to detect digital LOL
Until then Happy monitoring!
Larry
ke2qr@...
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Larry B <larryfire26@...>
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#112
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Re: Hole in 900Mhz
Larry,
Good point about the phones being digital - so you have to wonder why they
are cellular (frequency) blocked! That's legislation for you.
73 de KE2QR
Fred Jacobowitz
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Fred Jacobowitz
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#111
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Re: Hole in 900Mhz
Hello All,
Just an FYI,
Most ALL cell phone systems today are digital in nature so monitoring with a conventional radio will not work so I would not even be concerned about this any longer.
Most
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Larry B <larryfire26@...>
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#110
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Re: Hole in 900Mhz
ECPA (Electronics Communications Privacy Act) and some legislation that followed a few years later makes it illegal to monitor cell phone conversations.
73
Eddie Muro- Amateur Radio Station
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Ed Muro <k2epm@...>
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#109
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Re: Hole in 900Mhz
FRED,
The legal issues are very real. It is in violation of the Federal wireless privacy act to intercept (receive) any cellular transmissions analog or digital signals, period. It is also against the
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PATRICK MASON <fcr222@...>
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#114
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Re: RT Systems FT-60 Software Opinions?
Mark,
I have you received the RT software yet? I am waiting for the final release
as I participated in the beta. I also have a FT-7800r and use the RT
software with that. So I thought it would be
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Fred Jacobowitz
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#108
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Re: Hole in 900Mhz
This link may be of interest - old, but a start. Anyone know the
current law?
http://www.grove-ent.com/LLawbook.html
Bob G4HFQ
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g4hfq <bob.freeth@...>
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#120
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Re: RT Systems FT-60 Software Opinions?
ADMS-1J is working fine for me. I have programmed about 300 channels
into modified and non-modified units with no problems.
I believe Jim's product is still "growing" - there were a couple
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Clint Bradford <clintbrad4d@...>
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#115
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Re: Hole in 900Mhz
Ah, so for the techno savy out there, lets take a break from putting down
this radio and lets come up with a strategy for plugging the hole! What are
the legal issues concerning monitoring the cell
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Fred Jacobowitz
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#107
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FT60 Adms software
Used the software for first time to transfer some memories to a new
ft60. Memories transferred ok, but when I switched to VFO and
manually entered a repeater frequency, the shift frequency was not
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s1moller <k1cpa@...>
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#116
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Re: headphone question, and Adapter suggestion
VX-150?
Absolutely. Among other Yaesu HTs, too.
Clint Bradford
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Clint Bradford <clintbrad4d@...>
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#104
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Re: Hole in 900Mhz
Isn't that where cellular images are?
Clint Bradford
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Clint Bradford <clintbrad4d@...>
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#105
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RT Systems FT-60 Software Opinions?
Greetings,
Seeking feedback/comments from any FT-60 users who have purchased and are using RT Systems' ADMS-1J software for the FT-60.
How does it fare in a comparison with FT-60
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Mark Gardner
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#106
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Re: headphone question, and Adapter suggestion
For what it's worth, I have the vx150, ft60R and the VX2R, the ear-bud
microphone that I bought for the VX2r, model MH37, works fine with
the vx150 and FT60. I'm guessing, but I'd think the speaker
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Bill Pirtle <won.by.one@...>
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#103
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Re: headphone question, and Adapter suggestion
Ed,
A young ham came to the last meeting with a vx-5 and the speaker mic. I
should have grabbed it and tried it. He likes it because he said the
speaker on the vx-5 is small and this gave him plenty
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Fred Jacobowitz
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#102
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