Artjirbal1950 said:
Gang members and drug dealers don't know the first thing about the internet, and aren't smart enough to use a scanner. So they wouldn't come to a place like this to quickly learn how to spy on the police.
Why would they need to come here? Most scanners are "preprogrammed" with common freqs now. Just turn 'em on and listen. Or the helpful geek behind the counter at Radio Shack will plug 'em in for you when you buy. Besides, your original complaint was about listing input frequencies. Why would they bother listening for the input freqs when they'll hear the repeater a lot better?
And let them listen - it'll be amusing when they get busted. My local PD knows this trick well. They're on a readily listened-to UHF freq. There'll be some traffic as they set something up, but it's annoyingly vague (to someone who wants to know what's going on). If they have something sensitive going on, they'll be on their cell phones or face-to-face.
For that matter, the police are well aware they're monitored. I bet in many cases they'd
like to see a scanner or radio around when the bust takes place. That just adds more charges to the stack!
And nobody ever programmed a used radio to their local police or fire radio channel and interfered with their communications.. So they wouldn't need to find out how to set the radio up in the first place.
Yep, there are people who've done it. Even some hams who "opened up" their ham gear to do so. And the idiots who actually USE said radios often get busted. It's extremely easy to triangulate on a transmitted signal, especially with a doppler system. We used them for amateur radio transmitter hunts, they make a formerly challenging and fun activity quite boring and quick. (If they are transmitting enough to jam comms, they're transmitting PLENTY long enough to get hunted.)
And as was said before, except on VHF-hi the repeater inputs are a uniform offset up/down from the output. So it's a non-issue.
Looks to me like you don't think the database should exist
at all...
Now that I think of it, hackers never break into computer systems or steal identities..
What's this have to do with posting repeater input frequencies?
So, go ahead and post all this stuff like a bunch of school children telling secrets.. It won't hurt a thing..
Except everything posted here isn't a secret. It's all quite readily attainable information. This site just packages it nicely.
Heck, if you want to get silly about it, various sources used to sell BOOKS that contained all the frequencies as of that publish date. Why would any intelligent drug dealer get online for his info when the feds might be watching, when he can go to the library and look up the freqs in a book? Or pay cash for a book at the store?
