[FedCom] In the clear

Denny Beringer [email protected]
Sat, 18 May 2002 20:18:22 -0500


They still use DVP? I was under the impresion that DVP was very obsolete.
'70's technology,

db


>    Don't take everything published as gospel.  If one or more DVP units
has a decoding problem and alternate comms are not available, then
> it is possible that the comms will be in the clear.  I monitored a FBI
surveillance a couple of years involving an aircraft and ground units
following a suspect vehicle across the state.  One of the mobile units could
not go DVP.  All the comms were in the clear.  It doesn't
> hurt to have them programed into a scanner.  You never know.