Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Path: utzoo!utdoe!contact!guy
From: guy@contact.uucp (Guy Lemieux)
Subject: Re: Stock Ticker from FM
Organization: Jet Penguin Lavatories
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Date: Sat, 16 Feb 91 21:05:34 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.210534.14415@contact.uucp>
References: <5312@tellab5.tellabs.com> <abeals.666593406@melange>

In <abeals.666593406@melange> abeals@autodesk.com (Visualize Whirled Peas) writes:

>lash@tellabs.com (Bill Lash) writes:

>>I understand that in many areas stock ticker information is broadcast on the
>>FM band.  Does anyone have any information about how the data is encoded, what
>>frequency ranges are used, and commercial or roll-your-own products for 
>>receiving the information and storing it on a PC?  I would appreciate any
>>information.

>The information would be useful but it would be illegal to acutally
>do it according to the radio act of '34 as it is a service meant to be
>send to subscribers.  [Like Muzak on subcarriers.]

First, take note that I am Canadian and may not know what I'm talking about
when it comes to American law.

I heard that it is within the Constitutional Right of any American to receive
any radio band s/he wishes to.  Thus, police RADAR detectors are legal.  In
Canada, we have no such right.  In Canada (Ontario at least) RADAR detectors
are illegal.

Perhaps some lawyers could clarify this point.  I don't know about the above
mentioned "radio act" either, but then I shouldn't (I'm Canadian, remember)
have a reason to.
--
Guy Lemieux          ENG SCI                          University of Toronto
guy@contact.uucp      9 T 2      Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
