jidanni said:
Well in Taiwan no one will bother you with your scanner once it is
inside the country at least, no matter what the laws probably say.
It's the same in mainland China. It's very hard to say whether scanning is legal or not in currently law, beacuse it's expression about scanning in currently law is so blur. and even most people don't know what scanner is. many amateurs use their radio to chat only. The scanners seem could not be imported may because some government files, but it's not really takes effect. Although you maybe hard to own(find) a scanner, but To own a wide band moded ICOM-T90A(The version of T90A which ICOM selling to manland China is already MODed, but smuggled ones are not. It's unintelligible) and Yeasu 7R is legal, and to own a amateur wide band receiver like Yeasu, some model of AOR, Uniden stuff is legal too. you could buy them in any amateur radio shops.
In mainland China, most people think it scorn to use a "radio-interphone", they always say like "look at your mobile, it's soooooo big and uglily", this point of view makes few people to have interest on radio. It's very sad. and then Hard to find, see, own a scanner makes few amateurs know scanner and say nothing of trunking system.
Anyway, By the actuality, I think it's nothing about scanning in law, you can do wide band receive and it is legal, but no scanner you could get. In china, you have to use receiver only because you may not to find a scanner in shop. But if you owned a scanner, HAVE FUN! Because you just doing some formed receiving, that's all,nothing more.
Fortunately, I work for a company which provides trunked network services, and I'm loving all about that. I hope more and more people in China could join. have fun.
//Wang He//
