Teen Accused Of Jamming Police Radio

[jjudson]

Interesting...

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14422467/detail.html

 

[ScanDaBands]

"He gets on the scanner and he listens to the police and what's going on in his neighborhood. He's involved with the neighborhood watch because there's a lot of B&E's on his street. Honest to God, he's an awesome kid," his father Paul Lydon Sr. said.

"I think when I had my scanner on, my radio listening to them, it was sending feed back to them," Lydon said.

Ha ha ha ha - LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:

 

[w4esp]

17 year old jammer?

dose anyone know what he was using, are the police there on 800 mhz trunking? was it a cell phone jammer?

tom w4esp

 

[Don_Burke]

...and reporters wonder why people do not trust their reports.

 

[SCANdal]

dose anyone know what he was using, are the police there on 800 mhz trunking? was it a cell phone jammer?

Tom,

Boston Police use UHF conventional frequencies; they are not trunked. What he was using is an excellent question. What the father understood to be a "scanner" may not quite have been a scanner but instead was a cheap two-way radio programmed up on one or more of Boston's police channels. This is an interesting story and if someone more local can keep an eye out for how it progresses, I'd like to know.

SCANdal

 

[iMONITOR]

He's probably a member here on RR!

 

[daysand]

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14422467/detail.html
How Stupid can these people be. A Scanner Can NOT transmit.
A scanner radio Can Not produce Feedback because it Can NOT transmit !!!!!
What a bunch of dumb people.

Even the reporter should be Fired for being so darn STUPID.

 

[studgeman]

Knowing the BPD radio system and the technitions out there, there is no way this was a simple scanner. The BPD radio shop is not a bunch of fly by nights that have no clue, nor is this a bunch of over-reactive police officers. It had to be an actual radio, programmed correctly, perhaps by the neighborhood watch group. For the BPD Techs to bother to go trace it to this kids house it had to be pretty serious and a regular occurance. At least all they charged him with was disorderly conduct and not some more serious charges.

 

[ecps92]

Boston PD

460 Mhz DPL Tones...

dose anyone know what he was using, are the police there on 800 mhz trunking? was it a cell phone jammer?

tom w4esp

 

[n2mdk]

I'm thinking one of those eBay Chinese UHF radios. A little more info is needed, then again too much info can be dangerous in the wrong hands.

 

[ecps92]

Radio

Thoughts, bring out.
a.) Modified Amateur Radio [He is [for now] a Licensed Amateur
b.) Stolen BPD Radio

Knowing the BPD radio system and the technitions out there, there is no way this was a simple scanner. The BPD radio shop is not a bunch of fly by nights that have no clue, nor is this a bunch of over-reactive police officers. It had to be an actual radio, programmed correctly, perhaps by the neighborhood watch group. For the BPD Techs to bother to go trace it to this kids house it had to be pretty serious and a regular occurance. At least all they charged him with was disorderly conduct and not some more serious charges.

 

[ecps92]

not the First time.

Latest updates, in Todays Boston Globe

"His father said police have previously caught his son using radio equipment on their frequency. Both parents attributed their son's actions to his fascination with becoming a police officer."

Tom,

Boston Police use UHF conventional frequencies; they are not trunked. What he was using is an excellent question. What the father understood to be a "scanner" may not quite have been a scanner but instead was a cheap two-way radio programmed up on one or more of Boston's police channels. This is an interesting story and if someone more local can keep an eye out for how it progresses, I'd like to know.

SCANdal

 

[policeMonitor]

wow this is whacked out!

 

[N8DV]

It's one of those damn hams again messin' everythin' up!

 

[Slyster]

Maybe he opened his pro-96 and did the transmit mod?

:roll: :wink:

 

[pogbobo]

another Future Whackers of America candidate ... nice .... i agree with the cheap 2-way theory, he must be dumb as a monkey to be producing some kind of signal that could actually be traced to his house ... i thought that only happened in the movies rofl

 

[R-32]

Find out if it was his HAM HT, a stolen, or old surplus radio, then have his parents beat his ass with it, Take it away, and ground him for life....



Parents are way to soft on their kids anymore, I would have been dead meat as a kid if I pulled those kind of stunts.

 

[com501]

Get a rope...:twisted:

 

[kirka127]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/10/26/youth_denies_blocking_911_messages/
It states in this story he handed them a two way radio not a scanner.

 

[geoff5093]

haha, I loved what he said:

"I think when I had my scanner on, my radio listening to them, it was sending feed back to them," Lydon said."