[FedCom] is there still life here ??

[~Bill]

Depending on the make/model, it is likely best to just program in the frequencies and set to AUTO, if manually programming (software helps a good bit)
This way it will allow you both worlds, since almost all Federal LE have gone P25


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From: fedcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:fedcom-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of David Todd
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2024 11:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [FedCom] is there still life here ??

 Federal monitoring has been slow going for me because most of my monitoring is analog. I have two digital scanners but have a hard time programming them. Digital monitoring is a lot harder to do. Also, I live in a Rual area. Not much going on here. Homeland Security was here the other day in my neighborhood checking a house.  I read it in the paper and decided to try to monitor Homeland security but didn't have much luck. I keep the scanner running just for the hell of it. You never know. Everybody keep monitoring you never know what might come up.
David W. Todd
...in GOD we trustall others we monitor...
    On Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 05:00:35 PM EDT, Jeff Kenyon <jkenyon7 at rochester.rr.com> wrote:  
 
 If anything, the big lesson we should have learned after 9/11 is there needs to be more interop plans in place.  Encryption doesn't help that, and I had heard someone from Motorola even thinks that encrypting general dispatch and day to day activities should be in the clear for interoperability concerns.

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On 5/23/2024 11:10, Michael Scheel wrote:
> One thing I think about the low message rate here is after 9/11. 
> People were skittish about posting what they were hearing...

Which, of course makes NO sense at all...

Spook (hey, remember the Spooks forum?) transmits in the clear, for the universe to hear openly, in real time, one or two dudes are afraid to mention it in an almost unknown forum, after the fact.

That's like everyone watching a soda pop commercial during the super bowl, but afraid to acknowledge it, 23 years later.

Genius.

Kurt