Cellular Update Well, they've done it again. The high paying special interest groups have gotten yet another law passed. Now it is not only illegal to listen to cellular communications, but illegal to even MAKE a tuner capable of tuning them in! Never mind thats its just EMR floating through space, your body, your house. It is ILLEGAL to tune a crystal to such and such frequency converting the energy to audio. Ridiculous. People who broadcast their conversation across the country side should have no expectation of privacy. Does everyone have to cover their ears when I yell out the window to my friend? No, of course not. The question of it being immoral or not should not be confused with legality. Here's the new law. SEC. 408. INTERCEPTION OF CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS. (a) AMENDMENT -- Section 302 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 USC 302) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (d)(1) Within 180 days after the date of enactment of this subsection, the Commission shall prescribe and make effective regulations denying equipment authorization (under part 15 if title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, or any other part of that title) any scanning receiver that is capable of -- (A) receiving transmissions in the frequencies allocated to the domestic cellular radio telecommunications service, (B) being readily altered by the user to receive transmissions in such frequencies, or (C) being equiped with decoders that covert digital cellular transmissions to analog voice audio. (2) Beginning 1 year after the effective date of the regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph (1), no receiver having the capabilities described in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C) of paragraph (1), as such capabilities are defined in such regulations, shall be manufactured in the United States or imported for use in the United States.