Is it legal to live stream scanner comms on
the Internet?
I asked the FCC. Below is their answer...
Subject RE: CIMS00000588188 - Internet Live
Stream Radio
Date: October 10, 2007
FCC rules do not prohibit redistributing over
the Internet those communications licensed under FCC rules Part 90, such
as the communications
of local government, law enforcement, civil
defense, private land mobile, or public safety communications, including
police, EMS, fire and the like.
Licensees under FCC rules Part 90 concerned
about the intercept and divulgence of their communications may encrypt
or ?scramble? these
communications, except for station identification.
Part 90.735(d) requires station identification to be transmitted by unencrypted
voice. Station ID
may also be by digital transmission of the
station call sign, including by Morse code. A licensee that identifies
its station in this manner must
provide the Commission, on request, information
(such as digital codes and algorithms) sufficient to decipher the data
transmission to ascertain the call sign transmitted.
Rules are located in Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations; Part 90 is available online at
http://wireless.fcc.gov/index.htm?job=rules_and_regulations
Hope this information proves helpful.
Thank You
Rep Number: TSR09