[Scan-DC] Scanner Hobby 2018

[Billy Goldfeder]

If NYPD - the biggest and best PD - doesn’t need encryption for day to day operations.....then....
😉
Billy 

On Nov 4, 2018, at 14:04, Greg Danes <danesgswolf at gmail.com> wrote:

Yes and they are in the clear for a reason, not to save the world from
extraneous slips of giving out personal info. I think all the towers in NYC
would play havoc with 800 MHz digital (just a guess) and it seems to work
for them and the public without encryption. I LOVE NY!❤

> On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 10:32 AM Ed Tobias <edtobias at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> And the best listening of all, in IMHO, is NYPD and FDNY. Both are still
> in
> the clear. I started listening to them with a Hallicrafters S-95 tunable
> VHF
> receiver growing up in NYC as a kid in the late 50s. That listening, in
> part, led to both my ham ticket, in 1961, and my career in broadcast news
> much later.
> 
> I still love listening to NYPD Special Ops and FDNY Manhattan dispatch
> today. And all of the FDNY dispatch channels are still on the same VHF
> frequencies they were on 60 years ago!!
> 
> Ed, KR3E
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Kahn
> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2018 9:17 AM
> To: Scan DC
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Scanner Hobby 2018
> 
> Greg (et al):I have been in the hobby almost 20 years longer than you!Back
> in the day, my first radio was in the car, connected between the car radio
> &
> antenna so I could manually tune VHF to hear DC Fire & PD channels or
> select
> one of two crystals. You had to mail order a crystal for whatever freq.
> You
> wanted and wait 2-3 weeks.  I still have 2 8 channel crystal Unidens.
> I agree that the hobby has become more expensive and there is much less to
> monitor thanks to encryption, but as long as MoCo, PG & DCFD 'stay in the
> clear' I am going to listen.
> I know someone who still enjoys listening to railcar counters & taxi
> cabs....Jon!
> In summary, I agree that while it is not as much fun as it used to be, we
> still have a viable hobby for now.
> JK
> 
> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
> 
>  On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 5:06, Greg Danes
> 
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