topnik
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I am in the habit of locking out encrypted channels that I run across on the Sarpy County trunked system.
Over the last 2-3 weeks (probably longer than that...I've slept a few times over the past few months) I have heard, various times, units switching to 'INFO' and using the old designator 'Channel 2' and others using 'Channel 3'...today I heard one Bellevue unit switching to 'Info Channel 2...uh...channel 3...uh...2...no...channel 3'...I didn't hear that unit show up on the 'normal' Channel 2 INFO (TG 80). I know it might also be a radio programming thing...but...
Earlier in the year, I thought I had heard several dispatch references to a 'digital' INFO channel. Usually, when Sarpy system users talk about going to a digital channel, they mean 'encrypted'.
Did I maybe lock out a digital channel that is an encrypted Info channel on the Sarpy system?
It's strange. I'm not a big fan of public safety communications encryption. I do understand the need for encryption with ERU/SWAT/NARC/INVESTIGATION operations. I also understand, considering HIPPA issues, the need for encrypted MED channels (I'm surprised more MED isn't encrypted).
I am supremely surprised that INFO type channels are NOT encrypted...I mean, DL numbers, names, addresses, past history, even SSAN information? THAT is the kind of information I would expect to be encrypted, but far too often, it is not.
Just curious if anyone else has any info on a 'Channel 2/Channel 3' INFO thing happening on the Sarpy trunked system.
Over the last 2-3 weeks (probably longer than that...I've slept a few times over the past few months) I have heard, various times, units switching to 'INFO' and using the old designator 'Channel 2' and others using 'Channel 3'...today I heard one Bellevue unit switching to 'Info Channel 2...uh...channel 3...uh...2...no...channel 3'...I didn't hear that unit show up on the 'normal' Channel 2 INFO (TG 80). I know it might also be a radio programming thing...but...
Earlier in the year, I thought I had heard several dispatch references to a 'digital' INFO channel. Usually, when Sarpy system users talk about going to a digital channel, they mean 'encrypted'.
Did I maybe lock out a digital channel that is an encrypted Info channel on the Sarpy system?
It's strange. I'm not a big fan of public safety communications encryption. I do understand the need for encryption with ERU/SWAT/NARC/INVESTIGATION operations. I also understand, considering HIPPA issues, the need for encrypted MED channels (I'm surprised more MED isn't encrypted).
I am supremely surprised that INFO type channels are NOT encrypted...I mean, DL numbers, names, addresses, past history, even SSAN information? THAT is the kind of information I would expect to be encrypted, but far too often, it is not.
Just curious if anyone else has any info on a 'Channel 2/Channel 3' INFO thing happening on the Sarpy trunked system.