I forgot. Even if I could modify my car radio to cover 150 to 160 MHZ,
it wont do any good as the mode is too wide for those frequencies.

who cares if it's legal or not? that's what rottweilers are for --- if
anyone starts giving you a hassle about your radio, just give the nod to
fido and the person will suddenly have far more important things to deal
with than the legality of your radio equipment!
arf! arf! woof! woooof!
grrrr, snarl, slobber, woof, grr! ARF!!!
There, figure that one out Mr nosy RF spectrum policeperson, and in the
meantime my little radio device and I slip away into the night ...

"Skweezieweezie" wrote in message
...
I know that it is illegal to use a scanner while driving
a tractor-trailer and other commercial vehicles like
that and I would believe that a bus falls under that
classification. I'm not quite sure if it is a Federal
law. The person I asked has been a long haul OTR
driver for 20+ years.

Morning Lou,
Push comes to shove, Federal law superceeds state and local laws. It is
legal now in all 50 states for a ham radio operator to have a receiver
either in hand or in his/her vehicle. The state of New York states
while this is legal under ferderal law, it is illeagal to have in a
vehicle, a radio that is CAPABLE of TRANSMITTING on public service
frequencies, as many of todays tranceivers can. This is a very specific
distinction in NY. As for carrying a portable receiver onboard a PUBLIC
carrier, your actions are legal as one of "the people" A PRIVATE
carrier may impose specific regulations or rules on passengers, which
may be theoreticly a violation of ones constitutional rights, but
could be enforced at that time, as long as notification of such rule is
properly displayed and presented to the patron. The idea is to avoid a
problem before it becomes one, and that is due to the climate out
there, with all the tension and "heightened" awareness, it would be
best to keep such a device passivly displayed or under wraps as to
avoid potential conflict. Headphones ARE A MUST!
I know of now law that resricts the possession of a radio scanner on
ones person while transiting onboard any ground transportation..You may
request from your carrier, a WRITTEN list of compliances for its
passengers.
Cheers and happy RX'ing

Barknee wrote: Federal law superceeds state and local laws.
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Many states disagree. They say state law supercedes Federal law.

And they give the reason as the U.S. constitution says that any rights
not specifically granted to the Federal government by the constitution
belongs to the states.


Cases in point. The highway funding of the early 70's over the 55 MPH
speed limit.

The Federal Government wasn't able to legally make a law requiring all
states to obey the 55 mph limit because the rights belong to the state.

The states even said so.

To get around this, the Federal government simply threatened to withold
federal funding for the roads from any state who didn't reduce the speed
limit to 55 MPH.