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Originally Posted by Snail
The law was extremely difficult to police for these low power transmitters - I don't know of anyone who has been prosecuted under the Wireless Telegraphy Act for using one.
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I wondered about that, which leads to an interesting observation by x51vuser...
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Originally Posted by x51vuser
Interestingly in UK there are special police cars to control radio bands not only for illegal transmitters but also plain TV sets - in case you did not pay fee to use them.
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Were these police tasked with stopping those in cars with these or "pirate" radio stations? In many US states it's required for the driver and sometimes passengers to where seatbelts. However, for some of these states, you cannot stop them just for lack of a seatbelt; you would have to ticket them for some other "moving violation" like speeding, reckless driving, etc. Just wondered if you ever heard "drop that itrip and step out of the car, sir" :mrgreen:
BTW, this is my first official news post as a new Contributing Editor-in-Training, so thanks for the responses!