[FedCom] 165.2875 BATF

[Chris Parris]

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Are both areas encrypted?  BATF has been using P25 digital for a year or
more
in the Philadelphia, PA area on this freq.  I only bought a digital scanner
in
November of 04.  Every time I hear traffic on this frequency is it digital
w/
encryption.
I have never monitored anything in the clear here since they switched to
digital radios.

Ben
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It's been digital and mostly encrypted in Portland, OR for over a year now,
too. They do forget about the SECURE button occasionally, but not often.

Even with that, there still shows up the odd surveillance with analog DES
or even clear analog once in a while. I don't know if they are units from
out of town that don't have new radios or what...

In my travels around the country, I still find some ATF offices running
analog w/DES.

- Chris

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Chris Parris
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