[Scan-DC] New radios for Danville, Va. police

[John Wilson]

"New radios for Danville police, scanners don't pick up frequency." 
Wrong!  That is not a correct statement. Scanners certainly can "pick up 
frequency".  Unless the "private" mode for each trs is selected, anyone 
with a DMR MOTOTRBO/NXDN home receive system, like I configured three of 
four years ago, can monitor three target frequencies at one time. It can 
get noisey at times but they work. If someone has a NXDN radio for 
monitoring possibly the entire trs per license could be monitored. Two 
licenses are for eight trunked frequencies per license (probably police 
and fire) and five trunked frequencies for one license (probably ems). 
Selected licensed frequencies are in the 453 and 460 mhz. There were 
three FCC trs licenses granted for Danville City. All were for NXDN 
(4K00F1W only) trunked.  They are WQWU446, WQWU959 and WQWW659.

John
W4UVV



Alan Henney wrote:
> CBS - 7 WDBJ (Roanoke-Lynchburg, Virginia)
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> LOCAL
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> New radios for Danville police, scanners don't pick up frequency
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> Hannah Story
> January 18, 2017 Wednesday
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> DANVILLE, Va. (WDBJ7) People in Danville haven't been hearing police chatter on their scanners for a few months.
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> That's because the department got new radios.
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> These new radios provide better coverage and increase the ability to transmit in large buildings.
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> They leave virtually no dead spots in the city.
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> The department says it is a bonus that people can't listen in, but wasn't intended.
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> "There's been a lot of times, in the past, where people were able to monitor our frequency. It would prevent us from catching a suspect or made people aware of our presence, or our coming presence," says Sgt. Paul Deel with the Danville Police Department.
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> Eventually, Danville fire and emergency officials will have the same radios.
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