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Buck
| | Posted on Monday, July 29, 2002 - 7:54 pm: | 
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I have worked up a pretty decent trade I think...I met a guy who is willing to trade me a 148 with am/fm/usb/lsb/cw it has the freq mod roger beeb ect. I am willing to trade him two scanners that i have....Decent trade i think.. Problem is that he is from the UK. Has anyone ever shipped or recieved any radios or scanners to the UK? Will customs take stuff or will it be ok..Just curious...I dont want to get screwed and i dont want to screw him out of his stuff either Thank you |
MrDelaney
| | Posted on Monday, July 29, 2002 - 10:31 pm: |
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I don't know. I've only mailed one thing out of the country recently and it was a CD with pictures on it. It made it to Germany ok.
Anyway, there is a ton of info here if you can sift through it:
http://www.customs.ustreas.gov/impoexpo/impoexpo.htm |
bruce
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 30, 2002 - 7:49 am: |
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BUCK check with the postoffice i dont beleve scanners have any restriction i mail all the time to fellow hams and as long as you do the paper work which is a one page form and dont cheat customs it should be ok |
Sarge
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - 10:00 am: |
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You need to check the status of scanners with UK customs. They are the ones who will confiscate the parcel when it reaches Great Britain. US customs may not have any problem with mailing scanners, but once it enters the British postal service it is their policy that applies.
I know that back in the 1980's American CB radios were high on the banned list for both UK and Germany. The military still requires all CB equipment to be removed from privately owned vehicles prior to shipment overseas. The freedom to listen in on two-way radio transmissions is not that common outside of the USA. If scanners are legal in the UK, they probably have a lot more frequency ranges blocked than just the cellular telephone frequencies as with the US models. That is probably why he is interested in a US spec scanner and is willing to go through the hassle of powering it with 12-volts DC, since standard line voltage in the UK is 240-volts AC.
You might want to surf the web for current information on the status of scanners in the UK. At the very least, avoid using the term "Scanner" on the customs paperwork. That will be like waving a red flag to the UK customs inspectors. Use more generic terms such as "radio receiver" or "NOAA weather receiver". |
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