Quieter scanners

POTTSVILLE — New radios will soon be in the hands of the 110 volunteer fire departments in Schuylkill County.

County commissioners signed a $5 million lease to upgrade the county’s communication system among police, EMS, and fire departments.

The new radios will be encrypted, which means police and fire scanners that many Schuylkill County residents listen to won’t be the same.

“The regular scanner listeners won’t be able to hear it. However, there is a portion of it that still remains analog, but it’s not completely going away,” said Scott Krater, the director of Schuylkill County 911.

New Emergency Radios Mean Quieter Scanners | WNEP.com

Let 2015 be the year

I hope this will be the year that finally a program hits the net that will emulate that cheap Motorola ADP so we can once again listen in. Possibly we could post real time direction findind data so that at least we would know where these people are if their is a big incident.