[Scan-DC] Arlington following a LoJack hit

[Andrew Clegg]

In the end, I think it was a training exercise. One cop was driving around 
in a "stolen" car emitting LoJack signals, and the other one was in a 
cruiser learning how to operate the tracking equipment. It was neat when 
they were in my neighborhood, I could finally hear what kind of signal a 
stolen car emits. I have always been able to hear the occasional bursts from 
the local base station, but a stolen car emits shorter and much more 
frequent bursts (about once per second). So if you've got the LoJack 
frequency in your scanner, and you're hearing short bursts every second, you 
may be in the vicinity of a stolen car.

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From: "Andrew Clegg" <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:35 PM
To: "Andrew Clegg" <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com>; <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Arlington following a LoJack hit

> They're tracking it up by Quincy Park near where I live. I can hear a
> regular burst of data on the LoJack frequency 173.075 MHz every one 
> second,
> which must be what they are tracking. I can also hear an occasional much
> stronger burst, which I think is the nearest LoJack base station.
>
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> From: "Andrew Clegg" <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 8:10 PM
> To: <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Arlington following a LoJack hit
>
>> Sounds like Arlington is doing a LoJack track on CID channel (TGID 13).
>> They're in Rosslyn, but they seem to have lost the signal. I didn't start
>> paying attention until they were well into it. (Hope it's not an
>> exercise.)
>>
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