I don't think our police cars around here use any voice at all. It is all
keyboard and screen. I could be wrong but that is what I heard.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: performing firmware upgrades for the Radio Shack Pro-96
> Hi Bob and Lou and the group. I would have thought that Detroit would
> have gone all encrypted, but they haven't yet anyway, but in 1991 I was
> trying to obtain some frequencies, and this was long before they even
> thought of going digital, but were on 453 MHz for police and 154 for
> fire/EMS and some detectives and specialized units in Detroit were on an
> old analogue system on 800 MHz, and surprisingly very little encryption.
> However, when I talked to someone in communications she said that they
> couldn't even give the levels of frequencies, and she wasn't rude about
> it, but she said it like she meant business. Now, since Detroit has gone
> digital they admit that you need a special scanner that will cost more to
> monitor, but unless you have the necessary firmware upgrades you will have
> trouble with monitoring, and hopefully in a week or so when my 96 gets
> back we'll see what happens as I am half way between two of the towers for
> Detroit's new system.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Bob Tinney wrote:
>
>> Hi Lou,
>> I agree with your observation. Our society is moving from one of trust
>> and
>> respect to one of suspicion and paranoia. Police used to enlist the help
>> of
>> the public all of the time, now they want to hide from the public by
>> scrambling their radio signals and resorting to a supposedly centralized
>> 9 1
>> 1 dispatch center which is in some cases hundreds of miles from your
>> local
>> police station. Something is wrong with this picture!
>> 73
>> Bob, [log in to unmask], K8LR
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: "Bob Tinney" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 8:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: performing firmware upgrades for the Radio Shack Pro-96
>>
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm far more concerned about what is happening to our constitutional
>> rights
>> in this country than whether or not our scanners will pick up police
>> calls.
>>
>> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>>
>>
>>
>> At 10:58 AM 11/19/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>> >Hi Jeff,
>> >
>> >Does the new firmware help with scrambled signals? I'm hearing more and
>> >more of these types of signals. If the police do resort to completely
>> >scrambled communications, it will mean that we've taken another step
>> >toward
>> >a police state.
>> >73
>> >Bob, [log in to unmask], K8LR
>> >Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
>> >
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:10 PM
>> >Subject: performing firmware upgrades for the Radio Shack Pro-96
>> >
>> >
>> >Hi everyone, I have had to take my Pro-96 in for servicing because of a
>> >bad antenna connection and loose connector and possibly a bad solder
>> >joint. When I took it in this morning I mentioned to the sales person at
>> >my Radio Shack that I was having a lot of trouble with the Detroit
>> >simulcast digital system that requires a firmware upgrade in order to be
>> >monitored with no drops in the transmissions or anything like that. The
>> >sales person told me taht I didn't have the upgrade, and they are giong
>> >to
>> >upgrade it when it is in the shop, but a few months back I tried
>> >upgrading
>> >the firmware from home, and I got a message telling me that I had what I
>> >needed, and today come to find out I don't. Has anyone else had this
>> >problem before with a false message like that? I had been told also
>> >that
>> >once the
>> >firmware update was in people have been able to monitor this system
>> >with
>> >no problem.
>>
>> Louis Kim Kline
>> A.R.S. K2LKK
>> Home e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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>> Work Telephone: (585) 697-5753
>>
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