Listening to a pursuit or something over DUPLINSO and the dispatcher said "Keep traffic on VIPER because subject is known to have a scanner" I guess Duplin transmits using the force over viper as opposed to Radio:roll:
I've got two better than that......
1. This evening around 1630, I began to hear some odd traffic on the Pender Ops 1 TG on VIPER. They were talking about "who has the eyeball" and "The CI has they keys to the car".
After a few more minutes of listening, I began to figure out that a few of the deptuies from Pender County SO and the Surf City PD were in the process of doing a drug bust or something similar....on a countywide interop/tac TG.
They then started to talk about how the channel they were using was secure, until a VIPER user here in the county come on and said "Ummm....no it's not, this is a countywide tac channel you are on". Man, those guys stopped talking mighty quick, and switched to one of the law TGs....
Man, that was funny....I bet Pender Law will try to get encryption set up before too long now.....
2. Last week a couple of the deputies here were talking about a particular person they were looking for, and wanting to stop him. They said something about him having a scanner, and since everyone has switched to these "digital channels" (as they called them), that nobody could hear them now. I happened to call one of the deputies on his cell phone and asked him what was going on. I then proceeded to remind him that I could hear him in the clear on my scanner and had him talk on the radio whilst I was on the phone...
Case and point...you never know who is listening and where they are....good pro for encryption if your comms are over "sensitive"....
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