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accept any interference received, including interference that
may cause undesired operation.
SCANNING LEGALLY
Your scanner covers frequencies used by many dierent
groups, including police and re departments, ambulance
services, government agencies, private companies, amateur
radio services, military operations, pager services, and
wireline (telephone and telegraph) service providers. It is
legal to listen to almost every transmission your scanner
can receive. However, there are some transmissions that you
should never intentionally listen to. These include:
• Telephone conversations (cellular, cordless, or other
private means of telephone signal transmission)
• Pager transmissions
• Any scrambled or encrypted transmissions
According to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
(ECPA), you are subject to nes and possible imprisonment
for intentionally listening to, using, or divulging the contents
of such a conversation unless you have the consent of a
party to the conversation (unless such activity is otherwise
illegal). This scanner has been designed to prevent the
reception of cellular telephone transmissions and the
decoding of scrambled transmissions. This is done to comply
with the legal requirement that scanners be manufactured
so they are not easy to modify to pick up these transmissions.
Do not open your scanner’s case to make any modications
that could allow it to pick up transmissions that are illegal to
monitor. Modifying or tampering with your scanner’s internal
