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Old 04-19-2009, 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Robert Grant View Post

One good question: Is it legal to possess a UHF converter today, post-ECPA? (since it is a device designed to receive frequencies that have since been reallocated to Part 22).
Now that cell phones using narrow band FM are obsolete and no longer supported by the phone companies, that issue of violating ECPA with a UHF converter would today be moot. As the signal is now encrypted as digital bits.

I suppose you could use a UHF converter to feed a DTV set or converter box set to channel 5 or 6. I don't know how fussy an ATSC DTV receiver is, though.
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