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
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