Wondering about New York public safety system

SCPD · Nov 11, 2014

I am from Canada and was looking at what major city's have for trunked systems . Almost all I have looked at have trunked systems ( mine has edacs going over to a P25 p1 system soonish).

When looking over new York city it seems its just a collection of simplex FM with some P25 here and there . Is that really the case or am I overlooking something ?

K2KOH · Nov 11, 2014

New York City has quite the gamut of systems. NYPD operates a bunch of UHF T Band frequencies for patrol, citywide services. FDNY is on both VHF and UHF, but I believe are transitioning to UHF. Check out New York City in the database. Lots to listen to in the city

sefrischling · Nov 11, 2014

PAPD is on EDACS

NYSP in NYC is on the Metro P25 trunked system, I believe the SIRR PD are on there and some NYPD Citywide channels are simulcast

NYC Sheriff, USCG, FDNY, OEM is on DoITT's Type II SmartZone 800 system

MCC and MDC-Bklyn are both Type II Smartnet

That's pretty much it for Public Safety trunked systems in NYC

n2nov · Nov 11, 2014

Go to my website (http://www.n2nov.net) to get a feel for all of the different conventional and trunked systems in NYC.

SCPD · Nov 12, 2014

Danm that has much info and it looks like a analog scanner alone would have more than enough to listen to. Hell if you could use a uv5r if you only had a interest in a few things

sefrischling · Nov 12, 2014

Cubic250 said:
Hell if you could use a uv5r if you only had a interest in a few things

In the city I keep a UV5R in my truck that is locked onto FDNY Citywide and NYPD SOD. It is quite convenient.

scosgt · Nov 15, 2014

Also quite illegal. You may want to delete that post, which is why I did not quote it.

SCPD · Nov 15, 2014

Unless he has a ham license correct?

blaze · Nov 15, 2014

Cubic250 said:
Unless he has a ham license correct?

It's not illegal in the US to use or program a transceiver to monitor a public safety system. It's illegal to program it to *transmit* on one, and even more illegal to actually transmit on one, without authorization.

Having a ham radio license has nothing to do with it. In fact, many amateur portables (particular single band models) have receivers that perform far better in the commercial and public safety bands than scanners do, often for less money. (The UV5R is not a particularly great performer, but you can't beat the price).

SCPD · Nov 15, 2014

blaze said:
It's not illegal in the US to use or program a transceiver to monitor a public safety system. It's illegal to program it to *transmit* on one, and even more illegal to actually transmit on one, without authorization.

Having a ham radio license has nothing to do with it. In fact, many amateur portables (particular single band models) have receivers that perform far better in the commercial and public safety bands than scanners do, often for less money. (The UV5R is not a particularly great performer, but you can't beat the price).

I thought the other guy was just talking about it ( the uv5r )being in the others vehicle and scanning.

blaze · Nov 15, 2014

Cubic250 said:
I thought the other guy was just talking about it ( the uv5r )being in the others vehicle and scanning.

There's an ambiguously written law in the NY State vehicle code prohibiting equipping private vehicles with police radios, with a bunch of exceptions. Case law on interpretation and enforcement, varies widely, and virtually none of the cases are in NYC (dire warnings here notwithstanding). There are certainly many people who are, or believe themselves to be, covered by the exemptions, and it's hardly something that the NYPD has teams of detectives investigating message board postings over.

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