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[] [] The Easy Days of Scanning are Gone from on May 16, 2016 It was great in the 70's when I would see a helicopter bearing down, and I'd switch on tac 2 and know exactly what was going on From a black and white I'd hear 'airship, what do you have?' Being in Los Angeles there was always activity and it was all in the clear. A few tactical frequencies on VHF and you'd have some long range entertainment, The cop cars where the Adam 12 type 4 door road runners that had sweetest rap rap exhaust of any cop car. The police loved them and drove them hard. You could buy them at auction for a song. Many of the undercover cars had a standard AM antenna that was actually a cut two frequency FM antenna, easy to spot if you knew. There is so much easy activity to pick up.

Nov 3, 2008 - Encrypted. As it would be illegal to decrypt such a signal, and relatively impossible, you'll never see a scanner be able to do this. I've said this. Very easy to program. And for the record, while Providence has gone to the RISCON system and Pawtucket is in APCO25, neither have their main ops encrypted. How To Decrypt Apco 25 Encryption Code Php. It is important to note that the items on this list are cryptographic modules. A module may either be an embedded.

-- I came across a hidden transmitter very near out shop. It was on 168 MHz, only a few blocks from my work. I guessed it might have been in a brief case. I hunted it down and confirmed its location by removing the antenna from the hand held still getting a signal. It was an income tax preparer office. I just walked back to work and never forgot about it.

Even when the President Ford came to town passing by in front of our shop all communications in the clear, it was easy to learn what check point you where on by listening to previous passes. I'd come out to the curb to watch, I knew it was coming and of course no radio in my hand. Don't even think of watching from the roof.

The FBI, it sounds dangerous just to mention monitoring that agency now. They had frequencies in the VHF band that constantly gave out hot calls of bank jobs with description and details as well. I think even then they where a bit smarter than to have tactical frequencies going with further details.

Need some dark humor the bus system in LA was aging, the had a dozen UHF frequencies and the bus drivers had phones that needed a delay of sec or two to begin to talk. After they got an understanding of that there would be reports of all sorts of mechanical problems. I can see why it’s blocked now: Insurance concerns.

Many times the driver would complain of loose brakes, or steering, roaches coming out of the wall, or disturbances where the driver chases down the bad guys and gets beat up. The supervisors would many times tell the drivers to continue on with defects arguing that they can do it. I lost interest when the systems went digital and trunked and the Bearcat radios to me seemed so expensive. I picked up Ham radio and let the two hobbies overlap. Of course there is little overlap when the handheld you buy has extended receive on VHF, but there is nothing left to listen to.

This article has expired. No more comments may be added. The Easy Days of Scanning are Gone by on May 16, 2016 If you are willing to shell out the necessary $$$, you can still hear plenty!!:) The Easy Days of Scanning are Gone by on May 16, 2016 YEA, I agree, I miss those days and have all but given up on listening in anymore. The Easy Days of Scanning are Gone by on May 16, 2016 I helped an old timer in Floyd County, GA a couple of years ago. He'd been an avid scanner listener for many years, but the local authorities had slowly gone to a digital trunked system. Aspen Touch Screen Driver Windows 7.

For his birthday one year, his family got him a new digital trunked scanner radio. It was remarkably complicated. However, at his house, he barely heard anything. If he took his radio in his car and went downtown, he heard plenty, but at the house - virtually nothing. Someone convinced him he needed an outdoor antenna, which he put up, but it didn't seem to help. That's where I came in.

I studied his radio manuals, and verified that his rig had be properly programmed. (which seemed to be verified by the fact he could hear stuff downtown) I checked out his antenna installation, and it seemed to be completely textbook. His next step was to mount the antenna higher on a mast next to his house.