ALLEGAN COUNTY PRESS RELEASE

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THIS IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE ALLEGAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. DATE OF RELEASE: 1/04/04

Allegan County 800 Megahertz Radio System
And your Home Scanner
Allegan County Central Dispatch begins use of the new 800 Megahertz radio System
Beginning Monday, the 17th of January, Allegan County Central Dispatch and the law enforcement and EMS agencies of the county will begin to use updated 800 MHZ technology in their day-to-day communications.
With this new 800 megahertz technology the use of current VHF scanners will not be able to monitor the day-to-day communications between Allegan Central and the law enforcement agencies of Allegan County. The new radio system operates using digital encryption, meaning that scanner listeners will no longer be able to track daily activities for law enforcement or EMS (Emergency Medical Services) as you have in the past. Allegan County Fire Departments will continue to use an enhanced VHF system and home listeners will continue to be able to listen to radio traffic between the Fire Departments of Allegan County and Allegan County Central Dispatch.
Allegan Central Dispatch Director Robert Larr knows of the disappointment that this will bring about to many residents. However the security of radio traffic has become a priority. Residents who currently listen to scanners regularly are asked not to call Central Dispatch asking for frequency ranges or to complain about the loss of signal.
The phasing in of the 800 megahertz system will begin on January 17th and will continue until the entire law enforcement community is in the system. At that point the old VHF system will be taken out of service.
 

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Did Allegan County join the MPSCS? If they did, they are using digital modulation. It's not encrypted, for the most part. Except for sensitive talkgroups.

Gotta love how these politicians think. Some of them have absolutely no clue as to what type of radio systems their agencies are using.


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They are EDACS which would tell me they are going fulltime ProVoice...
 

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Okay. That's still not Digital Encryption, though. It may as well be as there is no ProVoice scanner available right now. But, why everyone thinks that Digital modulation is encrypted is beyond me. People here in Ohio think that the Ohio MARCS system is digital encryption. There are selected encrypted TGs on the system, yes. But, not all of them.

Some people (politiciand, some government officials) should do some homework BEFORE making false statements like that to the public.
 

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newsdork said:
THIS IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM THE ALLEGAN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. DATE OF RELEASE: 1/04/04

Allegan County 800 Megahertz Radio System
And your Home Scanner
Allegan County Central Dispatch begins use of the new 800 Megahertz radio System
Beginning Monday, the 17th of January, Allegan County Central Dispatch and the law enforcement and EMS agencies of the county will begin to use updated 800 MHZ technology in their day-to-day communications.
With this new 800 megahertz technology the use of current VHF scanners will not be able to monitor the day-to-day communications between Allegan Central and the law enforcement agencies of Allegan County. The new radio system operates using digital encryption, meaning that scanner listeners will no longer be able to track daily activities for law enforcement or EMS (Emergency Medical Services) as you have in the past. Allegan County Fire Departments will continue to use an enhanced VHF system and home listeners will continue to be able to listen to radio traffic between the Fire Departments of Allegan County and Allegan County Central Dispatch.
Allegan Central Dispatch Director Robert Larr knows of the disappointment that this will bring about to many residents. However the security of radio traffic has become a priority. Residents who currently listen to scanners regularly are asked not to call Central Dispatch asking for frequency ranges or to complain about the loss of signal.
The phasing in of the 800 megahertz system will begin on January 17th and will continue until the entire law enforcement community is in the system. At that point the old VHF system will be taken out of service.

The system is not DIGITAL ENCRYPTED!! It is just a MA/Com Provoice EDACS System. Still it is not able to be monitored. I believe however unlike a lot of other people out there that MA/Com will soon release its rights to scanner manufactuers..........might be 2 months, could be 10 years, but it will happen(but 10 years from now things wont even be the same)
 
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