Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8310/4.5.0.110 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/102)
Hello everyone. So I was up there yesterday and during the course of the evening there was an attempt to move all the field comms from Boulder SO Black (their SWAT's VHF simplex freq) to a VTAC channel which I'll keep under my hat as ops continue today. This seemed to be only moderately successful as officers kept coming back up on Black stating VTAC was "digital" meaning, in their vernacular, the transmissions were unreadible. DTRS was pretty useless in that immediate area as well.
As problems continued, it only took about 30 minutes for their comm van to patch the two freqs together rendering the stealthy VTAC comms rather un-stealthy.
Looks like VHF is still the way to go in areas like that.
Didn't hear any encrypted traffic from Longmont P.D. or anyone else up there. It was probably them gearing up in town before heading up the hill.
$300,000 worth of pot! Some drug dealer somewhere is unhappy...
Ta!
