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Hi, I'm Chloe. 👋 I live in the US but listen to public safety from around the world using Scanner Radio and Police Scanner. I found a channel on Scanner Radio called, "Northwest VHF Scanning". In its description, it advises it scans Marine Distress and several SAR freqs. It states it is...

I'm wondering which country makes radio scanning legal or illegal. Can you share legal information for radio scanning in your countries? (e.g. links to laws or regulations) I'd like to know which country I can bring scanners with me when I travel.

Greetings everyone. :) I'm in preproduction on an educational video teaching how to use an SDR with DSD+ to build a simple rig and listen to trunked emergency services data on P25 systems. Could someone please advise me on the legality of teaching this and posting it to the internet? I'm...

Let's say you are the owner of scanning website in the Republic of Nurdvania, and you want to make sure you don't publish any government secrets, and someone passes you this list, 1 151.587.500 MHz 14656413 T7 C13 2 154.487.500 MHz 14564613 T2 C5 3 152.212.500 MHz 14644413 T7 C2 4 151.725.000...

Purchased the Baofeng BF-888S and can't find much information on the frequencies that the radio came programed with, this was purchased through Amazon and I really would like to know if these radios are license free with the programming that came in them and can be used in the U.S.

Hi I was at a hamfest last week and bought a really nice Motorola handheld. I got it to a friend with a legal copy of their CPS who said he was sure he had the right cable, but couldn't seem to get his PC to recognize it. Stupidly, I took it to a local Motorola dealer and asked them to look...

Hello, I recently purchased a Baofeng BF-F9V2+. I do not have any licenses yet. After reading multiple forums, it seems that it would be illegal for me to transmit on FRS frequencies. However, from the FCC website, my understanding is that FRS channels are free to use so long as the...