Rd Thompson said to Scott Mcquilkin
About: Codes
Dated: 01-05-98  13:24hrs * D.A.R.E. for Life!
 RT> Hi Scott, as you were just saying about CODES....
 SM>  Cleveland just went to a Digital Trunked 800mhz Radio dispatch
 SM> system
 SM>  for all 6 districts to prevent unwanted persons from gaining
 SM>  information they shouldn't have (mainly TV stations), S.W.A.T. and
 SM>  special operations units also have their own frequencies.
 SM>
 SM>  A trunked system essentially means that you have "example" 5 different
 SM>  frequencies which are controlled via a central computer that rotates
 SM>  them when they are not in use, thereby deterring listening by persons
 SM>  whom may have equipment that could pick them up, and some departments
 SM>  have a birdie (electronic tone) which rotates on the channels not in
 SM>  use, making it impossible to scan the frequencies with radio traffic.
 RT> No, it isn't.  I can listen to my local county sheriff's office with
 RT> no birdie tones even thought they are on an Ericsson system.  There
 RT> are also a couple of scanner commercially available that track the
 RT> Motorola trunking system.  Uniden has one as does radio shack.
 Yes, I am aware that the "Bear Tracker" exists, but my point was most
 people don't have such equipment to listen, and even then *most*
 departments (brookpark/parma, oh) use digital encryption to prevent
 such listening even with such equipment.
 RT> RD
 RT>  ! Origin: DPSystem:4285 OS2-WARPED 520-290-8418 USR V.e+ (1:300/105)
Scott Charles, Professional Security Agent  State of Ohio; Notary Public
 eMAIL: s.charles@neopc.org -*- P.O. Box 1523 * Elyria, Ohio  44036-1523
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