Can I get some gold stars for every radio I used to passively monitor a system with out getting bricked ?
The only time I ever had a radio inhibited, it was when I got one from a county auction that had been condemned as unrepairable.
So of course I fixed it in about half an hour.
It was a M/A-Com era P7100IP and it had been run over by a fire truck. But the PC board itself,
the important part, was undamaged.
I had plenty of scrap radios of the same type to use as spares so I transferred the good board to a new set of everything.
I then had a perfectly good radio that was live on the system.
Being, fundamentally, very much on the side of law and order and doing everything properly, I
contacted the agency that used to have the radio and explained the situation and requested that they
assist me in getting the radio deprogrammed so it could be used for receive only.
Really I was just testing them.
They stunned the radio within a few minutes.
And I programmed it right back up with my usual scanning file. Which had more in it, of course.