Broadcasting Police Transmissions

[matthewn1983]

You can blame idiots like this for agencies moving to encrypted comms.

[ozradio]

Paraphrased from the ACMA...

Any person is free to posses and use scanning equipment to monitor any radio frequency (with the exception of telephone frequencies such as mobile phones) with the following conditions...
1. You may not cause interference to the frequency or frequencies being scanned.
2. You may not rebroadcast the frequencies being monitored as copyright is held by the original broadcasting entity.
3. You may not profit from receiving the signal without negotiations directly with the original broadcaster.

I don't know how rule 2 works with people who publish their scanners to sites like broadcastify or if it is allowed to do that but I do know it is illegal to rebroadcast onto another frequency as not only does that violate the police copyright but it also causes interference as the people who do the cross band repeating generally rebroadcast the police frequency onto a 277MHz channel which can be picked up with any 80 channel UHF radio.

People need to stop doing things which cause problems for other users like us who try our best to keep within the rules and only scan as a hobby and out of general interest.