86-286. Readily accessible to the general public, defined.
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Readily accessible to the general public means, with respect to a radio communication, that such communication is not:
(1)Scrambled or encrypted;
(2)Transmitted using modulation techniques the essential parameters of which have been withheld from the public with the intention of preserving the privacy of such communication;
(3)Carried on a subcarrier or other signal subsidiary to a radio transmission;
(4)Transmitted over an electronic communication system by a provider unless the communication is a tone-only paging system communication; or
(5)Transmitted on frequencies allocated for satellite communications under 47 C.F.R. part 25, for remote pickup broadcast stations under subpart D of 47 C.F.R. part 74, for aural broadcast auxiliary stations under subpart E of 47 C.F.R. part 74, for television broadcast auxiliary stations under subpart F of 47 C.F.R. part 74, or for fixed microwave services under 47 C.F.R. part 101, as such regulations existed on January 1, 2002, unless, in the case of a communication transmitted on a frequency allocated under 47 C.F.R. part 74 that is not exclusively allocated to broadcast auxiliary services, the communication is a two-way voice communication by radio.