[Scan-DC] Encrypted P25 on Industrial/Business Pool freqs?

[Mark Cobbeldick]

As long as the user is licensed for the correct emission, the FCC
doesn't exclude them from secure comms like they did back pre-1980.
Prior to that, it was only law enforcement who could get a license.


I helped a guy in Daytona Beach (Fla) who owned a large taxi service
migrate all of this fleet to conventional (non P25) DES encryption in
2002.

A hefty chunk of money for a new base station (Mastr3) with a digital
shelf, and all new (Orion) mobiles in the cars.  He always suspected
other taxi companies in the vacation city were 'jumping' his fares.

What was a shock was the next fiscal quarter when he ran his financial
reports.  His revenue rose >$120k from the previous quarter!

If that wasn't telling, at the next meeting of the County's Taxi
Board, several other taxi companies were raising hell about him
"scrambling" his radio calls.

Gee, isn't that funny.  How would they know he had gone secure, unless
the other company's had been listening to his dispatch traffic all
along !!!




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Mark Cobbeldick, KB4CVN
Monroe, VA
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 22:21:28 +0000
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Subject: [Scan-DC] Encrypted P25 on Industrial/Business Pool freqs?
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Been doing some long term unattended scanning and recording here in
Monkey County and saw some hits on 153.275MHz. Listening to the
recordings and they were encrypted. Is that allowable on these type
freqs? Or is our government doing something very sneaky? Cant imaging
the users of these type freqs can afford P25 encrypted radios like the
feds? Wonder what is going on?

Jackson

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