Also, with phone patches on our old county system before they upgraded the
friend of the court workers practically lived on those things, and it wasn't
just calls about dead beat parents or probation violations either, but calls
to home where their others would ask them to pick things up at the store, or
pick the kids up from school etc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: Trunking Scanner


>I think it is only the RS scanners that block private calls.  I don't know
> why either, since it is very easy to listen with an old fashioned
> conventional scanner.  I am often surprised by some of the things said in
> a
> private call.  Like "the key is behind the..." or "Use 1234" to bypass the
> security" and so on.
>
> Ken -N5SWR
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jeff Kenyon
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:18 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Trunking Scanner
>
>
> You can with the Uniden BC250D.  I don't know about the Pro-96, but with
> the 250D in a Motorola system enter in talk group 700000 and go to about
> 701999 I think, I'm not sure, as it has beena  while, but you also hear
> phone patch calls for systems that allow it.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Kenneth Lee wrote:
>
>> It's not to hard to follow the conversations as long as the system =
>> doesn't
>> get real busy.  You just have to keep your finger on that resume scan
>> button.  It can be confusing when the system is busy and you catch =
>> little
>> bits of several conversations.  But with a conventional scanner you can
>> listen in on the private calls, I don=92t think you hear those with a =
>> true
>> trunk scanner?
>>
>> ken, -N5SWR
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jeff Kenyon
>> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 7:32 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Trunking Scanner
>>
>>
>> I think that that system is digital, in which case he'll need a 96 or
>> something like that.  Scanning conventionally is fine, but can be
>> frustrating when you want to follow a conversation when it jumps from
>> frequency to frequency.
>>
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