[TrunkCom] Is digital encryption the future of radio?

Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:22:37 -0400 (EDT)

You are confusing encryption with digital.  The type of digital that the
new scanners will do is a standard.  Now, encryption is available for
anyone trunked or conventional, and some will use encryption more then
others, but generally it is used by people like detectives and narcotics
and things like that.

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 [email protected] wrote:

>  Yesterday I went and bought two new Cobra FRS walkie talkies for $79 apiece. 
> On these two new FRS radios, there is the regular analog talk. But also, on 
> these new radios there is a Voice Private button. When you push the Voice 
> Private button, the radio switches to digital mode. When you are in digital 
> mode on Voice Private, there are 29 key codes that you can program in both 
> radios to have your voice transmissions encrypted. So only the people that 
> have the same FRS radios and the same key codes programed in will only hear 
> and talk to each other. If you want to run open transmissions, so that 
> anybody can here you, you just push the Clear button to return to analog 
> open. 
> 
>   So I decided to try something. First I programmed FRS channel 1 (462.5625 ) 
> into my scanner. Then I talked on that channel in regular analog open mode 
> and I could hear myself loud and clear. Then I hit the Private Voice button 
> and put in one of the four digit encryption key codes in it. When I talked, I 
> couldn't hear nothing except a dead key. One the other FRS radio I pushed 
> Private Voice but did not enter one of the codes. When I tried to talk again, 
> I heard the same thing on the other radio that I heard on my scanner, a 
> silent dead key. So what does that mean. It means if a cheap radio service 
> like the Family Radio Service can come out with encryption on one their new 
> radios, then why wouldn't a muti-million dollar radio service like public 
> safety, be using full digital encryption in the future?  
> 
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