TailGator911
Silent Key/KF4ANC
Monitoring Fairborn PD and Montgomery County South Dispatch this morning and a transmission from the usually clear Fairborn PD channel was garbled to the point of sounding like encryption. As I wondered about that, the unit calling his dispatch remarked that her last transmission was unreadable and sounded like Donald Duck. So it's not just on our end, folks. They sounded very frustrated with the Ohio MARCS-IP system.
I have a nephew on the Germantown PD force, and a good friend and fellow ham on the Greene County Sheriff Dept Last year I remember asking my friend if they (GCSO) were ever going to full encryption (we were discussing scanners online) and he told me then that when I heard a garbled transmission on an otherwise unencrypted channel that it was usually two or more people trying to transmit at the same time. He says he loves his communications system. He says others do not. And, he noted, none of them are in favor of online scanners.
Do you think our public safety people like or dislike the Ohio Marcs-IP system?
I have a nephew on the Germantown PD force, and a good friend and fellow ham on the Greene County Sheriff Dept Last year I remember asking my friend if they (GCSO) were ever going to full encryption (we were discussing scanners online) and he told me then that when I heard a garbled transmission on an otherwise unencrypted channel that it was usually two or more people trying to transmit at the same time. He says he loves his communications system. He says others do not. And, he noted, none of them are in favor of online scanners.
Do you think our public safety people like or dislike the Ohio Marcs-IP system?