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NYPD cracks down on cops using radios to mock superiors | New York Post
NYPD cracks down on cops using radios to mock superiors | New York Post
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I read a link on another forum here concerning this issue.
In that link, it says some officers are leaving city radios behind in the station house, and carrying personal radios on the job.
I guess I'm wondering, are these personal radios able to tx on NYPD freqs?
If not, I can't help but wonder why officers would be out and about without a radio to shag calls, or call for help on.
Can anyone give more specifics on the type of radios involved in this?
Article I read said radios were being bought at Radio Shack.
I can understand maybe using FRS or MURS for details. Here in Detroit, I've seen DPD carrying FRS in addition to their work radios around the ballparks. But carrying a Radio Shack radio instead of the city radio bears some explaining to me.
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I read a link on another forum here concerning this issue.
In that link, it says some officers are leaving city radios behind in the station house, and carrying personal radios on the job.
I guess I'm wondering, are these personal radios able to tx on NYPD freqs?
If not, I can't help but wonder why officers would be out and about without a radio to shag calls, or call for help on.
Can anyone give more specifics on the type of radios involved in this?
Article I read said radios were being bought at Radio Shack.
I can understand maybe using FRS or MURS for details. Here in Detroit, I've seen DPD carrying FRS in addition to their work radios around the ballparks. But carrying a Radio Shack radio instead of the city radio bears some explaining to me.
Thanks
Wow?!?!? WTF???
I would guess that NYPD use some sort of PTT ID, DTMF, MDC-1200 , 5-tone or something else(don't know cause I don't live there) and by using a 'personal' radio, they are not setup to PTT-ID. This makes the user feel 'anonymous' leading to the kinds of childish behaviour being reported in the news stories. Yes these personal radios would be set up to transmit on NYPD frequencies.
Do not take what the NY Post article says as definitive. The reference to Radio Shack may have been speculative.The OP has a link to an article that says officers are going to Radio Shack and buying these radios.
Sorry if I seem slow about this, but I pretty much know what the Shack sells, (or used to sell) and I'm just not quite seeing how any of their radios could be programmed to tx on public service frequencies.
Some basic facts that those outside of the area may not have correct:
- analog/conventional channels, not P25 or encrypted
- "unauthorized" radios are most likely the BaoFeng variety (no codeplug needed)
- not all craziness on the various frequencies are police officers, but are civilians
- each patrol zone frequency (precincts) have multiple receivers and the data is logged as to which receiver is getting the best signal
There are a few radios that have been stolen over the years and never found. The NYPD does have a special unit that can track these people down who are making the remarks over the air. It takes time but they always get caught.
Yeah! Some 15 years ago I had some guy come into our shop with what was obviously a stolen NYPD Motorola Saber. He wanted in programmed on VHF Hi frequencies, and I explained to him that it was a UHF radio, so no can do. Before I gave it back to him I disabled the TX PL on a handful (but not all) of the repeaters in the radio. I did not want it to be too obvious what I did, although I doubt that he would have noticed. He went away and did not come back.
So that's the backstory as to why they were all reshuffled. I was wondering about that.radioman2001 said:...problems in the 80's with Icom-16 portables on precient frequencies. The fix back then was to use a PL code that the Icom couldn't do, and in a really bad area for radios being interfered with, they changed the input to a non-standard frequency.