[Scan-DC] Metro: DC Fire and EMS radio encryption blamed for failure in de - DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG

[Dewey3]

I would respectfully disagree.  Antennas must be connected to "something"
to work.  Just running "leaky" coax through the tunnels will not do
anything if that coax is not connected to something to assist with/boost
the received signal.  That something, if not encryption capable, is not
going to carry/repeat an encrypted signal.  The only place where this would
be a non-factor is with direct/simplex transmissions.  I know there were
reports that the direct channels were not working (insert rhetorical why),
but outside of those direct channels, encryption could have very much
played a role.

Dewey
On Jan 22, 2015 11:04 PM, "Jeff Krauss" <jeff at krauss.ws> wrote:

> Everyone should read Dave Statter's commentary and Dallas Lipp's comment
> on Dave Statter's page.
> http://www.statter911.com/2015/01/22/attention-members-
> congress-reporters-metro-not-talk-dc-fire-radios-dcfd-
> doesnt-talk-metros-radios/
> Encryption may have created a problem for the public safety radio base
> station located at the Metro ops communications center (OCC) in Landover,
> but probably not for the distributed antenna system within Metro tunnels.
> Encryption (although we hate it) probably had no impact on the incident.
> Sorry.
>
>
> At 10:46 PM 1/22/2015, Alan Henney wrote:
>
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