[FedCom] RE: FCC

[Ken Snipes]

Ahh, many good monitoring years ago....brings back memories....

The Norfolk office up here had a "scramble " mode many years ago
, I heard one of the guys saying to the Washington group, that he had 
called on the phone patch,
  that it cost $179 or so, per radio to put this is every radio....
and he was telling the guy he was in scramble mode, and showed him what it 
sounded like in and out, was very funny......

I descrambled it with a 29.95 modulation inverter i bought for descrambling 
the local police dept.

I was tempted to write Washington, about Gov Waste of money, but........


At 11:36 AM 2/20/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Several years ago while in Miami, FL  I do recall hearing the FCC repeater
>in 167.0500 MHz in operation, but they were using what sounded like DES
>encryption. A friend from the area mentioned that they had been using
>encryption for a while. I did not hear it on my last visit to Miami last
>August.
>
>And probably 8 or 9 years ago, I did get a chance to see one of the FCC
>monitoring vans. Surprisingly it was still carrying a VHF low-band whip on
>the back. 41.060 MHz was their low-band allocation, but I never have heard
>that in use...
>
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