[FedCom] majority of digital communications encrypted?

[Jeff Kenyon]

Here in Rochester, I'm not in the greatest location either and get a lot of 
images on all of my scanners.  I think I've heard a P-25 transmition once or 
twice here in Rochester, and both times it was encrypted.  IN Detroit, about 
99%of the digital stuff there was encrypted, but I also remember hearing 
what sounded like a surveillance operation which was in the clear!  When I 
was in Little Rock, I used to monitor a Motorola UHF federal system that 
either belongs to the air force base or one of the VA facilities and outside 
of some maintenance and phone patch calls it was 95% encrypted.  I'm just 
curious, but what is the situation with monitoring in Little Rock?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buford Burdell" <buford at informbot.com>
To: <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [FedCom] majority of digital communications encrypted?


> 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
>
> ---
>
>>Message: 1
>>Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 17:16:24 -0500
>>From: Jeff Kenyon <jkenyon7 at rochester.rr.com>
>>To: Discussion of Federal Government Communications
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>>Cc: Discussion of Federal Government Communications
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>>Subject: Re: [FedCom] majority of digital communications encrypted?
>>Message-ID: <64AFBEE3-6DB6-499C-8951-8A8BD6BDC4C1 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.
>>
>>Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> 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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