[Scan-DC] MoCo police scanning

[Doug Kitchener]

Alan, the garbles that I'm hearing are garbled words or phrases in en clair transmissions (as opposed to entire transmissions or exchanges that are garbled).  But you're right, there has been an increase in the use of encryption across entire (police) talkgroups in the Montgomery County system.

Dave, thanks for the thought but I don't think that's it either... While I've always felt that the audio quality itself on the -796 is not great, the problems that I mentioned originally have only recently surfaced - up until now the radio has always worked well (signal strength is high enough here in Gaithersbush that the radio will generally receive without an antenna attached).  Sometimes I wonder if there's too much signal, I have to use attenuation on the GRE radio.

Which reminds me, the problems I've been having seem to be more with the Uniden than the GRE... a buddy in Wheaton has both a Uniden and a GRE and has noticed the same things as well.  Both of us are in pretty good locations... he's in the Glenmont area; I'm in Gaithersburg near the end of Runway 32.

Thanks for your thoughts and interest... am hoping it all goes away magically after the Grande Re-Bandinge!

(but not believing...) 

DK

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> From: alan at henney.com
> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:44:57 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] MoCo police scanning
>
>
> The "garbles," I am afraid, are the increasing use of encryption. What
> talkgroups do you hear it on?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave" <afdltret at comcast.net>
> To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 1:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] MoCo police scanning
>
>
> > Is it possible the "garbles" on the Police side are digital talk
> > groups? The 796 is not all that great with digital and you need a strong
> > signal to decode same. I am not familiar with Moco just throwing out
> > this possibility.
> >
> > Dave m.
> >
> >
> > On 1/28/2012 12:44, Doug Kitchener wrote:
> >> I had been having the same problems with my Uniden BC796; last night I
> >> did all the firmware updates on it and it is "under test" right now. So
> >> far it seems to be working better as far as the open carrier / scanning
> >> not resuming, and getting (not) the talkgroups mixed up - I don't think
> >> that's happened at all in the course of about four hours. However, there
> >> seems to be a lot of garbles... I'm not sure about this next statement,
> >> but the garbles _seem_ to be more on the police side than fire... I'm
> >> going to try and track this... am scanning Gaithersburg and Germantown PD
> >> talkgroups.