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[@harveylexton]

It is not illegal to listen to a radio scanner but it could be illegal to make use of info received without permission

[@RingwayManchester]

Research the law. In the UK, it’s illegal to listen to anything not intended for you. Look at the wireless telegraphy act. Pinned for anyone else wondering

[@MrBugsier5]

@@RingwayManchester Stupid Law//// Luckely its differend here in The Netherlands.

[@washburn8049]

Terrible advice, and 100% wrong.

[@johnnyragadoo2414]

@@RingwayManchester That's a shame. Meanwhile, terrorists will continue to listen to whatever they want to.

[@defizr]

Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 S48 www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/36/section/48

[@KeystoneInvestigations]

Laws be damned. If the RF is in the air, I'm gonna listen to it !

[@TheSpotify95]

Indeed. Though to be honest I doubt I'd actually be able to pick up anything of interest even if I did have the equipment to do so. In any case, the stuff that's likely to get you into trouble (i.e. listening to police radio signals) is on digital now which cheaper AM/FM units won't receive now. And in any case, the emergency services will soon be (or already are) using the ESN network provided by EE 4G.

[@GamingKing545]

@@TheSpotify95 a $45 RTL-SDR will get it done

[@jaylo912]

In the day and age of encryption, anything still broadcast openly should be legal to listen to.

[@KjartanAndersen]

As it is in the EU

[@BigNCountry]

Thats how it is in the US. It is up to the sender and specific receiver of transmissions to encode/encrypt their traffic if they don't want others to hear.

[@AnIdiotAboard_]

Errr encryption aint the be all and end all, due to the modest processing power available in these devices encryption is not as strong as you might imagine, even the police's new flashy pay per message system can be decrypted in real time if like me, you have a background in computing and encryption. Ive yet to find an encryption standard to survive a radios, because we can gather way more information than you can an unencrypted radio. So your argument is invalid. A quick search on youtube, DECRYPTING Encrypted radio packets will be enlightening! Mobile phone network encryption is a joke.

[@quantummotion]

Same in Canada. It's not illegal to listen. The expectation is that encryption is used to secure comms. What is asked of you is not to divulge information to a third party unless compelled to do so by court order or participation in a court proceeding.

[@dizz00001]

listening to the radio? straight to jail.

[@BillyNoMates1974]

with this government in power, breathing will send you to jail. lol

[@dessertlocust]

every day life gets worse for the euros

[@BillyNoMates1974]

@@dessertlocust we live in an age of 'you cant do ...', 'youre not allowed to ....' society. 10 hyears from now the UK will be unrecognisable

[@Chris-hy6jy]

With this Labour government, this sounds quite normal 🤦‍♂️

[@anarbekabdullin3574]

​@@dessertlocustit is all the same government all over the world. The politicians are just puppets. In Kazakhstan I felt much more free and safer during the Soviet era than now. More government, more surveillance, more rules, more fines, more taxes. The more government there is the worse it gets for people and economy. At least here it feels like that.

[@asterickjones]

Their fault for broadcasting it unencrypted nobody should be blamed for being able to tune in.

[@DesertRat.45]

Those crypteds are sketchy

[@w8biatvrepeater638]

For Next week’s video, we delve into the story about a Coventry man who is prosecuted for recklessly removing the “Do not remove under penalty of Law” tag on a neighbor’s mattress.

[@timward2001]

The tag is the fire safety certificate. Without the certificate the neighbour's landlord, assuming they provided the mattress as part of the rental, is likely to have to buy the neighbour a new mattress. So prosecution for criminal damage and civil action for the cost of the replacement mattress would seem reasonable.

[@jamie59685]

@@timward2001 You have to be on the wind up

[@kenn743]

here in Denmark you can listen to everything without going to jail or getting a fine, but a lot of it goes digital

[@borisvokladski5844]

Yes, I am happy that the Danish government and the Danish Energy Agency had not gone crazy and make stupid laws regarding radio communication.

[@14percentviking]

You also had 'Dog Brothels' up until very recently. Yikes

[@moonman8865]

jesus christ this is horrible.

[@someonebald2022]

When I was a kid, In the 1970s, the North London Metropolitan Police could quite easily be heard on the FM Broadcast band with any VHF radio!!

[@Glory3823]

so True ❤

[@digitalmediafan]

Yes they were on AM but very oddly around 100 to 104 Mhz or so, very few FM tuners went above 104 Mhz back then I think

[@rog2224]

@@digitalmediafan There were some that went up (at least by the tuning scale) 107 MHz back then. The unit I had was just a normal transistor radio we'd got cheap from the market.

[@joemarquez9291]

I could hear them on 100Mhz in Hertford.

[@markrainford1219]

Yes, I used to lie in bed listening to them as a schoolboy. Only got half the conversation though.

[@SidebandSamurai]

In the USA it is not illegal to listen to police frequencies, airline frequencies or emergency services. There may be state restrictions but no one gets arrested for these. This is a great series. Love your channel. Keep it up

[@spacemissing]

But a large number of police departments now have radio systems that encrypt comms, which makes listening impossible. Where I live, it happened in 2004.

[@baronedipiemonte3990]

I've "heard" on more than one occasion that the State of Florida has mobile scanner use restrictions and that law enforcement, especially the Highway Patrol, is strict in this regard... that if you have anything other than a 27mhz CB in your car, you better have a FCC license. Re: listening to encrypted frequencies - it's my understanding that if one possesses receivers that are legal & available for public use, including ones that can "un-encrypt" inversion, digital, P25 etc encrypted comms, you can listen to what you hear. Many of these can cost in the thousands of $ , the only restrictions are that you may not divulge what you hear, nor use it for personal gain.

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

There are even KZbin channels which livestream radio comms from emergency services in random towns in the US.

[@jamesslick4790]

@@halfbakedproductions7887 There are phone apps that do it too. I have one called "Scanner App Pro" and it even has International streams. I listened to Australian fire fighters working the huge wildfires there, And I'm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!

[@GazB85]

There's also apps on the Android/Google store that allow you to legally listen to emergency services in the USA.

[@simonjones3863]

The UK is so completely mental about radio, it makes no sense to a Canadian. If you can hear it, you can hear it!

[@madaxe606]

Even as a Canadian I feel bad for the British. Our grandfathers who went ashore in Normandy would be mortified to see what prissy weaklings we've become.

[@RCAvhstape]

You are not weaklings. Not all of you. You just took good life for granted and the evil snuck in and took hold. You will have to work be rid of it now. And it's not just you. All Western countries are facing this problem right now.

[@madaxe606]

@@RCAvhstape I get what you're saying, and I certainly don't count myself in the prissy weakling camp. But I'm increasingly horrified at the extent to which my fellow citizens are meekly allowing our once-glorious country to be transformed into something so pathetic. For that reason I call 'us' weaklings - because by any useful measure, 'we' are.

[@snail2171]

Stop video at 0:10 and read newspaper article. Scanner was used in drug selling net operation to listen local police.

[@RCAvhstape]

@@snail2171 I don't buy the idea that good people must surrender liberties because bad people abuse them. Drug dealers use speech to do business, should we therefore ban speech? (The way youtube keeps deleting my comment?)

[@theredraven]

A lot of British soldiers at Normandy would would have voted for the same governments that put some of these laws into effect (specifically the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 which made using radio equipment to receive messages you aren't the intended recipient of a criminal act).

[@thepenultimateninja5797]

When I was a kid in the 80s, my dad bought me a kit from Tandy to build a police scanner. It was one of those beginner kits that used solderless spring connectors. It was advertised specifically as a police scanner, and could not receive normal radio stations. Crazy to think they used to be sold as toys for children, abd now it's a crime to own/use them.

[@heckelphon]

The UK is so full of paranoia that I wonder, if someone drove around in a windowless van saying "Thought Police Scanner" on the outside, many people might well believe it. That's how authority works: make people believe that you have them in your sights, and that helps to keep everyone in line. And the British know so well how to queue!

[@crazyunclebob6901]

And I bet if someone actually did do this it would be an offence of some kind.

[@AnIdiotAboard_]

There called TV License Detector Vans :)

[@FrancoDX]

Haha. You’ve got a point but don’t be foolish enough to think everyone in the U.K. is like that. Laws are blatantly broken here everyday in broad daylight. Cannabis is on every street corner and there are kids walking around with machetes. Anyone paranoid about owning a scanner is overthinking their hobby.

[@michaelturner4457]

I'm sure that was the real intention of TV Detector vans.

[@FrancoDX]

Of course. It is not possible to detect what transmission someone is tuned into.

[@ZGryphon]

About 20 years ago I worked at a (now sadly defunct) local newspaper here in the rural USA. We had a scanner in the office that was always listening for the local emergency services, for obvious reasons, and occasionally someone would address us directly. Usually it was the fire department dispatcher, casually letting us know that the current call was for equipment testing or something and we shouldn't get too excited. :)

[@ydamydam2787]

The law is the wrong way round. The responsibility should be on the broadcaster to not broadcast sensitive data and for them to be held liable if they do. Not on the listener to not listen. Can you imagine if GDPR worked that way round?

[@christopherlawley1842]

"Is that a radio scanner or are you just pleased to see me?"

[@gavinminion8515]

Which leads to an interesting EMI conundrum. As a Student, I was in the front bedroom of our shared house one day, when my housemate's hi-fi system (which was on, but in standby) began to broadcast a police transmission. This wasn't over the radio, it was simply coming from the amplifier. A police car outside was transmitting with a powerful enough signal that it caused interference with the amplifier which reproduced the transmission - so we could hear one side of a police radio conversation. Technically this was breaking the law.

[@petermainwaringsx]

I was talking to someone back in the spring, who knew I was a Radio Ham. He said he'd come across a frequency on his scanner that sounded like drug dealers arranging deals and debt collection punishments. He was afraid to contact the police as they might prosecute him for illegal use of a scanner. He was considering an anonymous tip off to crime stoppers, but I don't know if he did.

[@GazB85]

Even if he reported it without evidence, such as recording it, it'd just be counted as, I forget the term but basically as if he could have made it up. If the police investigated everytime someone said something about someone else without evidence they'd get nowt done.

[@foobarf8766]

99% of meshtastic traffic

[@video99couk]

It was stupid transmitting in the clear and then complaining when people listen. They used to transmit in middle of the FM broadcast band to make it even easier, and then blame the person receiving instead of dealing with the problem at source.

[@fnln544]

When I was a cop in the States, my late mother would listen to my radio traffic using her scanner. A legal action by her at home. She would hear all my activity including dangerous and serious calls. It made her feel closer to me while I was on duty and she appreciated her son’s bravery, professionalism and service to others.

[@HAL9000system]

Soon: direct to jail for hearing call for pray from mosques.

[@RCAvhstape]

They already jailed a woman for silently praying on the street near a abt. clinic. She wasn't doing or saying anything, just standing there. A cop asked her what she was doing, and she told him she was praying inside her head. Jail.

[@GazB85]

​@@RCAvhstapeShe was probably past the line of protest. It's either 50 metres or 500 metres to protest near a hospital or private abortion clinic. They changed the laws about 2 - 3 years ago cause the American fundamentalists keep not only funding anti-abortion protests here is the UK but also coming over and organising them and were far more in your face about with their rubbish, so got pushed further back to stop harassment.

[@RCAvhstape]

@@GazB85 "Line of protest". Hmm. Still, she was not "protesting" if she was just standing still and not even talking.

[@bristev3431]

I can remember in the early 2000s. Buying 4 scanners at a local auction of item being sold from the police that had been used presumably in burglary and not required for evidence any longer. They all worked plus they were tuned into police security fire ambulances. Not that anyone had tried to clear the frequency on the scanners. I even brought pry bars bolt cutter ready made burglary kit.

[@KenOath42]

In Australia. I saw my hydroponics growing equipment that'd been seized by police for sale in a Christian opp shop. They had top dollar on it too the cheeky bastards!

[@spacemissing]

All countries have some laws that are simply obnoxius.

[@laustinspeiss]

And all countries have some people that are simply obnoxious. It works both ways.

[@notNajimi]

⁠@@laustinspeisswhat’s your point? Do people doing bad things mean this law is good actually?

[@MikeOfKorea]

Where I live in northern Lower Michigan, we listen to police and fire channels for safety. We're rural, and knowing if there's a car crash that will change our driving plans, or a barn is on fire is information we should know just in case it's nearby and might spread to the forests that surround our homes.

[@dirk013adfa]

"Oi sunshine, you got a permit for breathing?"

[@kd5you1]

So what happens if you are standing in front of police officers and you hear their radio transmissions?

[@deepsea83]

Anyone listening into the Police in Northern Ireland back in those days were taking a real gamble with their liberty, as shown in this video.

[@Jeff-ss6qt]

It seems like the USA isn't the only place with police overreach. The police shouldn't be scared of their public messages being monitored, because they shouldn't be doing anything illegal.

[@dinnertimemishap]

Its not about police doing anything illegal, Criminals do use radios to listen into the police. But unless you are doing something that impacts their abilities they should just screw off.

[@laustinspeiss]

You’re assuming that everyone’s living on the same page. The dealer trying to sell drugs to your son, or the creep stalking your girlfriend or daughter isn’t - I hope.

[@sncy5303]

​@dinnertimemishap in that case, why doesn't the police simply use encrypted burst transmissions? That was possible even in the 90s.

[@Robbie-sk6vc]

​@@dinnertimemishapTgen lets just outkaw knives, cars, radios, guns, and anything ekse that COULD be used to commot a crime! Ever hear of innocence till PROVEN guilty?

[@starwave8228]

£450 quid fine for a bit of puff, mental.

[@AZREDFERN]

This is one of the most dystopian things I've ever heard. That's like ruining someone's life for looking at historic statues, even worse if you illustrate them in a doodle book. Accusing them of trying to copy the statue without any evidence for the intent. They're everywhere just like unencrypted RF, and only takes a little effort to find them.

[@GG-hu9dn]

The Uk fascist don't care?!

[@mikewright447]

when the story starts with "when the police raided his house" , the scuffers dont come kicking your door in looking for a scanner , they kick your door in because the scrote will have other warrants out for them and lets face it most of the ppl out there would have had a scanner at some stage or another , hell i remember hearing the police etc on an old fm radio.

[@M7GDZ]

Let this be a lesson to everyone - when you buy a second hand radio - it might well have been stuffed down the front of their pants at some point.

[@Strange_Club]

I wonder how many people were prosecuted when you didn't even need a scanner to listen to the police as they could be picked up on an ordinary FM radio?

[@christron2336]

.. back in the day I always had the scanner on for night time listening.... used to be really good.....

[@ember5387]

Unbelievably draconian laws. What a joke.

[@usptact]

Just one little step away to have no right to listen said anything in the public without license.

[@Alan-Dawson]

My kitchen faces next door's kitchen. Years ago I was standing washing up and next door was on their cordless phone looking directly at me and talking about me. Yes naughty me had the scanner on...😂😂 and as baby monitors go I've heard some saucy stuff quite a few years ago. Hey, don't leak those RFs out for the world to listen to!

[@thomasmaughan4798]

When my neighbor used her wireless telephone it caused my daughter's teddy bear to talk. The bear had a radio receiver inside and just happened to be on the same frequency.

[@nightw4tchman]

Has anyone thought this might be a little heavy handed?

[@TCK-9]

Welcome to the island

[@rog2224]

I remember when you could get police traffic at the top end of the VHF band on a lot of portable radios. That cheap radio (nasty plasticy black and silver thing) was really good at LW dxing too. Most evenings in the late 70s, I used to listen to old Wolfman Jack programmes on American Forces Network Germany (I was in Scunthorpe). The farthest afield I ever heard police radio on VHF was a car chase in Nottinghamshire. I would have been 12 or 13.

[@spindriftbeach6082]

That is ridiculous. Not even a suspended? Our prisons are overflowing

[@barrieshepherd7694]

It was years ago!

[@keithcarpenter5254]

That's even worse! I mean, nowadays.......but years ago?

[@trekrich28]

These convictions are from the early 90s anyone who went to prison. They have been out a good 30 years.

[@phoenixxavier9615]

Under the telecommunications act, it is also illegal to use any wi-fi connection that has been left open. So anyone who's found & used an open wi-fi connection that isn't theirs has broken the law. Also, if you use a public wi-fi network meant for customers of a shop or cafe, but are not a customer, but sitting on a bench outside, then again if you make use of it, it is illegal. There are lots of other silly laws here in the UK.

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

Say things -> jail. Listen things -> jail. Is it legal to watch things in UK?

[@FM60260]

Not without a TV license

[@LukeSolo-One]

In Britain, we are subjects not citizens

[@theredraven]

You stopped being "subjects" when nationality laws changed in the early 1980s.

[@Sparky400]

Imagine yelling in the street snd getting angry that someone could hear you.

[@eadweard.]

Not a perfect analogy.

[@Another-Address]

Heard murder was a misdemenor in the U.K. since " thought crimes" are a more serious offence..

[@1mouseman]

Thinking may lead to doing. Very dangerous!

[@spinecho609]

UK has only 3% conviction rate for grape, its basically deciriminalised along with burglary at about 5%

[@belstar1128]

Burkina Faso is better than the uk

[@mikeburch2998]

Good luck enforcing that. Making it illegal attracts listeners. Greetings from Arizona.

[@LouiseBrooksBob]

What intrigues me is how they were caught. In one case someone is listening to a scanner in bed and another is caught hiding in a cupboard, presumably in his own home. Were the Police bursting into random homes?

[@Elberto71]

I paid a small fortune for the AOR 8200 back in the 90s still got it but it's not been used in over 20 years

[@barrieshepherd7694]

It's not only me then! 😎 along with an AR 5000, Yaesu FRG9600 and ICR 7000! 🤣

[@Max-js1mx]

needs a TV license, cant carry a knife on your belt, cant listen to unencrypted radio signals, so much control that doesnt seem to accomplish anything.

[@phoenixxavier9615]

Someone somewhere feeling like they have some sort of control over people. That is what that person accomplished.

[@Napoleonwilson1973]

Ditch the nonce licence.

[@navajojohn9448]

How do reporters and media agencies know where there is police or is fire dept activity for their news?

[@mpol701]

Back in the years this was happening they used me and others like me we listened we got paid passing information on, though I was in a sky on unit once and they had icom r5 as well, we are talking befir airwaves, though still illegal to. Listen to marine and air orr commercial pmr radios no one really bothers

[@GaryMcKinnonUFO]

If they don't want to be listened to could they not use encryption ? It wouldn't even need to be strong.

[@thomasmaughan4798]

Modern radios are digital and sometimes "trunked" and frequency hop each time you key the microphone. Scanners are generally useless at that sort of thing which is why I haven't even seen a scanner in 20 years or so.

[@migsvensurfing6310]

In all of Europe Police, fire etc. are on the Tetra digital network.

[@attribute-4677]

These are great Sir. Thank you!!

[@halfbakedproductions7887]

The sentencing in the Northern Ireland case may seem ridiculous and disproportionate, but you probably need to take it in context of what Northern Ireland was like at the time. You know what I mean. The courts were clearly taking that into consideration. And I also think the guy in the first story was probably already a known toerag given the police seemed to know everything about him, and how his rap sheet later turned out. I'd say the radio scanning was a symptom of something else and not the problem.

[@RingwayManchester]

Absolutely. It’s just the fact that there was zero evidence of anything relating to that. But yes valid point

[@davidchamberlain2162]

Picked up a cheap CB radio and could hear an Italian guy from Palermo. He spoke in English. How was this possible. Such a long way.

[@jamesslick4790]

CB is in the shortwave spectrum, under the right atmospheric conditions you might hear someone 1000's of miles away, but not 10 miles away!

[@migsvensurfing6310]

Sun spot number is at max now. When the sun goes down in the evening you should be able to hear the USA most days. This will last about a year then signals will go down until it is totally quiet and next sun spot maximum is then in 10 years. It is not a joke it is real. Enjoy for as long as it lasts.

[@dav1dbone]

"truck has crashed on the b73, it's been shedding its load two miles back up the road, mainly cans of Tenants lager" yeah right, let's go and look

[@theaylesburycyclist8756]

These were mad times. I had a a Realistic scanner that I bought in 1989. I lived in Oxfordshire, and used to regularly listen to Thames Valley Rozzers and Oxfordshire Ambulance Service. I also listened to some mobile phone calls and radio hams. I was 15 at the time. 1989/1990 was an amazing time… Happy days 😊

[@johnbower7452]

Bloody Hell!! When I was a kid we often used to listen in to the cops and the Air Traffic control; the radios to do so were widely available.

[@dave1secondago]

i remember when i had one way back , used too get police helicopter too ground police cars , it was very exciting in them days

[@giant_sandwich7748]

Listening should never be illegal maybe attempting to decrypt an encrypted broadcast is the right thing do account for

[@muha0644]

This country criticizes China for being authoritarian, then throws you in prison for listening to radio....

[@mikshawful]

Horrible law. There is no reason to criminalize listening to the airwaves. Fascism is gonna fash.

[@ugsisr]

Here in the United States it's not illegal unless you are attempting to decrypt any encrypted calls...

[@enigma51ted]

Guilty until proved otherwise. I will never live in or even visit the UK ever

[@andrewbrady3139]

Here in the US, you can listen to anything, you just can’t talk (unless it’s an emergency).

[@Hiram8866]

I once showed a policeman who was dating my sister at the time how I could listen to the police radio. I think he was quite surprised.

[@joemarquez9291]

How i was told by a Police Inspector that it's not illegal to listen but it is illegal to record, act on or pass on anything you hear. He used as a example that if I heard that they are the way to arrest a friend and I warn that friend I can be charged with impeding a police investigation and/or impeding the cause of justice.

[@RingwayManchester]

If you’re in the uk, he was wrong unfortunately

[@foobarf8766]

@@RingwayManchester I've searched the UK national archives for case law precedent of hams or pilots etc being targetted, but the cases I'm finding all involve criminality, are not telecommunications act offences. Like a guy who wanted to kill a cop, then bought a scanner despite TETRA encryption in 2023. Scanner mentioned as part of a parole hearing not an offence per-se. You might be giving viewers the wrong impression. Honestly sounds like tall CB stories. Similar if not identical laws in Australia and NZ and Police don't target hams here, apart from the ones who abuse others at least, a few 'soverign citizen' types who act like laws unto themselves into radio here.

[@HighWealder]

Wouldn't be surprised if Starmers thought police will try to dig up some retrospective cases.

[@raymondmartin6737]

1984 was really true by the 1980's. 😅

[@heckelphon]

Actually, they say that the novel was originally intended to be called "1948" but Orwell was persuaded to change the last 2 digits round because back in that age 1984 seemed to be in the impossibly distant future.

[@therealavolpe]

Lol in the early 90s, I could listen to the local police on a standard clock radio I got for Christmas! The police signal was right at the end of the dial!

[@itechflagstaff]

Thanks!

[@FrancoDX]

Interesting stories Lewis, thanks for sharing, this is all old though isn’t it. The Scanner has become a harmless niche hobby, same as aircraft listening has become a tolerated hobby. The law and Offcom have their hands full with policing social media, data hackers and online fraud, they aren’t interested in some bloke with a Uniden listening to dinner ladies on PMR 446 at the local primary school 😂

[@bill-2018]

Listen in you own home and don't tell anyone what you have heard.

[@Milcom34]

Thanks RM. Glad I and my Scanners Live in the United States**** Take Care.

[@jtsotherone]

In at least five states, including Indiana, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, and New York, it is illegal to use a mobile police scanner without a license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) or permission from local law enforcement. In at least seven states, including California, Michigan, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia, it is illegal to use a mobile scanner to commit a crime. It is illegal to use a scanner that can decrypt cellular phone calls or other radio systems. Land of the free...

[@jamesslick4790]

@@jtsotherone There is no FCC license for scanner listening.

[@jamess1787]

This is wild. Here in 🇨🇦, the only thing you arent supposed to listen to are cellular 2G frequencies, telephone communications and attempting to decrypt encrypted signals (theres a vague description that differentials modulation versus encryption). I cant remember exactly how the regs are written (theyre horrible to search): anything that is presumed to be private should be kept confidential and as an amateur should move to a different frequency.

[@w8biatvrepeater638]

I thought that Listening to Jordan Peterson KZbin videos was expressly prohibited in Canada.

[@jamess1787]

@@w8biatvrepeater638 it should be, sometimes that guy makes sense and other times it sounds like he's an isis radical spewing quotes about jihadism... When he gets that crazy one needs to change videos 😅

[@ethasitoem8292]

Keep up the good work

[@andykirby]

Awesome video rog!

[@RingwayManchester]

Thanks rog

[@sneekeruk]

I remember listening to the police when I was about 9 or 10, I was walking to my grandads on Christmas day, and my walk man could pick up the police, not sure if it was normal that you could pick it up on a walkman, but I know my walkman was a sanyo bought in germany.

[@kwakamonkey]

Some normal radios used to pick it up also. one I got for my Christmas ( a Llyotron radio cassete ) could pick them up in some area's. Taxi's too if I remember right. that was in the 1980s

[@heckelphon]

@@kwakamonkey I remember the days (long time ago, 'cos I'm ancient!) when poor audio circuits at the local cinema meant you'd get some taxi transmissions breaking in over the latest Bond movie!

[@jvoric]

I think I got off lightly with a caution back in the day when I got caught using mine in a McDonalds car park while I was munching my dinner🍔🍟🥤! lol

[@tonywestvirginia]

Wow! That's crazy.

[@karmaandkerosene_music]

The UK has become a dystopia. If I lived there I would consider leaving.

[@larspregge6420]

Same in germany.

[@fretlessfender]

When I look back to my childhood days back in the seventies, here in Holland we could receive the police just below the 88mhz band on any fm-radio... ofcourse I did! Did not understand a bit of what I heard, but it was really electrifying to listen to these messages...

[@migsvensurfing6310]

Same here in Denmark. I still remember the exact frequencies on 84MHz that were used here. Germany used 86MHz, even closer to the FM band.

[@ComblessMan]

Love that $8000.00 radio image. About as close as I will ever get to one.

[@RingwayManchester]

It’s a beauty I love it

[@ComblessMan]

@@RingwayManchester Have you done a review? Love to see it.

[@RingwayManchester]

It’s too complex 😂

[@M3talr3x]

The UK has jumped the Orwellian shark.

[@AndrewRoberts11]

All these are TWENTY plus years old, as the transition to ENCRYPTED DIGITAL 2g / GSM MOBILE PHONES started in 1991, with the likes of the Orbitel handset appearing, while the Emergency Services Network ESN / Airwave started its DIGITAL transition in 2000.

[@jjhendo]

Wow. I like Britan, but dang. I just went for a walk around my neighborhood holding a scanner, listening to anything I can pickup! 😁

[@timward2001]

An RT licence allows a pilot to listen to the air band whilst acting as pilot of an aircraft. It does *not* entitle them to have the scanner running whilst they're in the bath so that they can practice understanding the procedures, get an idea as to what today's weather is really like before heading off to the airport, and so on. Such outside-the-scope-of-the-licence listening has safety benefits, particularly for low hours hobby pilots who don't get to listen much in the aircraft because they can't afford to fly much. I've never heard of a pilot being prosecuted for breaking this rule.

[@bhambhole]

Someone should probably warn that DJ Audit guy

[@mpol701]

I've told him be careful but he assured me it's only ever pmr 446 he listens to on sites, we all lie we publish freqs but turning up auditing legal then if listened to a siterdionnit licence free pmr446, he woukd get in trouble for that if nit careful, but he says it's only pmr446

[@GazGaryGazza]

Phew - thought I may have been listed lol. 1991 if I remember rightly a conditional discharge and Scanner was seized. Still have the court paperwork somewhere 🤣

[@CRAZYHORSE187]

In the 90's I was young and entrenched in criminal activity, I would never leave the house with out my scanner, still remember the frequency, 452.550mhz. It was a decent radio, well I had a few, cause a cheap Uniden 200 could only listen to the police base, so I upgraded and got my self one of the best so I could hear the base and the cars as they were on 2 frequencies. It's sad, but I wanted to absolutely do everything I could to limit getting caught, using an ear piece, a few times it saved my bacon. I'm shocked America is still analogue. Madness in this day and age.

[@mpol701]

Good ol ch33 I think that was

[@kenandbarbie-b6c]

If the police don’t want to be monitored, have an encrypted system. Very common in the United States.

[@TheStevester2]

It's just like LPL when lock companies demand removal of the videos of their locks getting picked. It's not seen as an opportunity to make a better lock, but as a forbidden skill...

[@Snowy1of1]

I remember listening to the police back in the early 90s. Living where we did, cars were stolen every night and police chases happened regular as clockwork. Listening to my radio and knowing the area well, I knew where the chase was at any given time and which poor souls car was being chased as they would say the names of the car owners and where they lived! Now I listen to everything else thats allowed and transmit on Frequencies Im allowed to as well.

[@tombola4046]

And yet Hue Edward’s is allowed to walk the streets!!!

[@charlesterrell2603]

Seems like they include scanner use as an add-on charge. Something that might stick in court if the "real" charges (burglary, drugs, etc) somehow fail. What we don't see in the breathless news coverage are the people who listened quietly at home, did nothing else to break the law, and then kept quiet about it afterward.

[@Yolo_Swaggins]

I used to have one of those AOR scanners with the unlocked frequencies.

[@danielswinbourne3507]

I lived in the blue mountains back in the 90s while looking for a radio station on my clock radio when it tuned into the local police radios got some good laughs out of some of their antics . unfortunately they have gone digital full encryption so no more useing scanners or clock radios to listen in 🚬👽👖🇦🇺

[@Nick-ew2cb]

It must have been around the year 1998, I bought a scanner from Maplins that could pick up mobile phones. I would have only been around 17. I had no idea it was illegal until seeing this video. No one at the shop warned me.

[@maxusboostus]

I remember when police transmitted on frequencies that could be listened to via a normal 88 to 104MHz randio, I was in the understanding that you could listen as long as you didn't act on anything heard. Imagine being around a street corner when you hear a police officer giving confidential information to another officer and you overhear them. does this make you are a criminal to have witnessed the conversaion?