Cellular Update


     Well, they've done it again.  The high paying special interest groups have
gotten yet another law passed.  Now it is not only illegal to listen to
cellular communications, but illegal to even MAKE a tuner capable of tuning
them in!  Never mind thats its just EMR floating through space, your body, your
house.  It is ILLEGAL to tune a crystal to such and such frequency converting
the energy to audio.  Ridiculous.  People who broadcast their conversation
across the country side should have no expectation of privacy.  Does everyone
have to cover their ears when I yell out the window to my friend?  No, of
course not.  The question of it being immoral or not should not be confused
with legality.  Heres the new law.


SEC. 408. INTERCEPTION OF CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS.

   (a) AMENDMENT -- Section 302 of the Communications Act of 1934
       (47 USC 302) is amended by adding at the end the following new
       subsection:

       (d)(1) Within 180 days after the date of enactment of this
              subsection, the Commission shall prescribe and make effective
              regulations denying equipment authorization (under part 15
              if title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, or any other part
              of that title) any scanning receiver that is capable of --

              (A) receiving transmissions in the frequencies allocated to the
                  domestic cellular radio telecommunications service,
              (B) being readily altered by the user to receive transmissions
                  in such frequencies, or
              (C) being equiped with decoders that covert digital cellular
                  transmissions to analog voice audio.

          (2) Beginning 1 year after the effective date of the regulations
              adopted pursuant to paragraph (1), no receiver having the
              capabilities described in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C) of
              paragraph (1), as such capabilities are defined in such
              regulations, shall be manufactured in the United States or
              imported for use in the United States.