[FedCom] majority of digital communications encrypted?

[Buford Burdell]

As most of us already know, there are certainly differences from one area to
another where fed comm encryption is concerned.

I recently moved from the Boston area to western North Carolina and there is
a HUGE difference in the quantity of encrypted comms.

Up around Boston the fed monitoring was great with a LOT of unencrypted
P-25, but down here it's 99.9 percent encrypted. I was rather shocked just a
few days ago to hear some P-25 in-the-clear comms from one of the fed
repeaters. It didn't last that long but it was nice change from seeing "ENC"
on the scanner display all the time.

What probably does not help is that I am currently in a very bad location
for monitoring which limits what I can receive, but my experience so far
indicates that the fed monitoring around here is nowhere as good as it is in
the Boston area.

Buford
Asheville, NC

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>Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 17:16:24 -0500
>From: Jeff Kenyon <jkenyon7 at rochester.rr.com>
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>I'm in Rochester, and with my 250D I get a lot of images I think that's
just because of my area. I'm consistently searching both federal bands
162?174 and 406?420.
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> On Mar 2, 2014, at 9:33 AM, Branden Watson <w2brw1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There is a lot of activity to be heard in WNY. Some stuff is encrypted but
others are not. Where in WNY are you located?
> 
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>> On Mar 2, 2014, at 1:35 AM, "Jeff Kenyon" <jkenyon7 at rochester.rr.com>
wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everyone, I've seen quite a few threads on here logging digital
communications that are APCO-25 conventional.  I've noticed a couple of
things when reading through data bases, and that is that a lot of these
services stick to just a few common NACS.  Also, I've observed that a
majority of the digital transmitions I've run across both in Detroit and in
Western NY are encrypted.  Is this the case in the rest of the country, and
if anything is heard in the clear what has been heard?
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