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Low-power FM Transmitters Banned in UK

Posted by michael on from the getting-your-priorities-straight dept.

Acey writes "The BBC News is reporting that the Griffin iTrip falls foul of the UK Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949 (PDF). In short, the iTrip is an unlicensed FM transmitter and that's not allowed. The UK distributor, A M Micro, have pulled the iTrip. More ominously they warn that "Use of the iTrip in the UK therefore constitutes an offence and can lead to prosecution of the User". Guess that makes me an outlaw, because you'll have to pry my iTrip from my cold, dead hands."

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  1. Re:regulation of the airwaves by Liquorman · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pirate radio stations broadcast towards England from ships off shore, outside of English legal jurisdiction. Here is some historic info: http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/spotday.htm

  2. Re:How will they enforce? by dontod · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm in the UK and recently bought on of these. It's an almost identical product called an FM 'Linker' but basically you plug it into any headphone socket et voila you're a radio station.

    They say the range is about 5M (therefore just for personal use) but it is well over 100 metres. So I'm waiting to get busted when I broadcast web radio stations around my house (and over a small portion of town).

    Don

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