Bridgeport Ch. 1 P25?

[APX7500X2]

I don't think they appointed a new chief yet. When Joe moves to his new job I doubt the next chief will change anything.

 

[MrAntiDigital]

Today I hear digital and analog on my old radio so something is going to happen. Next time I see the new chief I'm gonna try to bribe him with a coffee and ask if he could un-encrypt PD Ch 1 so we can listen in once again. I was told that they wanted to stay one step ahead of the criminals and media, but the low life criminals aren't gonna spen $500 on a radio and the dept gave the media radios so they can monitor and chase calls like they did before, just so contractors can make a buck and pass it on to taxpayers.

"AFLAC", I'm with ya on this one. Tell that new chief that I was ALWAYS a Big Fan of theirs. I'm NOT a criminal and I've never been arrested. Well, I did recently get stopped on I-95 for using my cell phone while driving. But I got a verbal warning and I promised the officer I won't do that again.

Anyway, I sure did enjoy listening. I'd offer to buy him a bottle of Scotch if I thought that would work.

There is a couple of things I'd like to ask him though. That is how much money did this whole radio thing cost the taxpayers of the city. When there was NOTHING at all wrong with those radios before. And who was the lucky sales person to put all that extra change in their pockets.

Once again, "Thank you folks for taking the time to listen".

 

[pro106import]

For the Police Department it was:
1) 154.725 MHZ (Main Dispatch)
2) 155.43 MHZ (MV checks/secondary dispatch)

I might be showing my age but I listened to them on 39.100 back in the day. I grew up in Hamden and they used 39.580 but transmissions were very sporadic at best back in those days. So I used to use Bridgeport 39.1 as a "Service Monitor" to tweak up my scanners because they were on the air so much.
Bob

 

[MrAntiDigital]

I might be showing my age but I listened to them on 39.100 back in the day. I grew up in Hamden and they used 39.580 but transmissions were very sporadic at best back in those days. So I used to use Bridgeport 39.1 as a "Service Monitor" to tweak up my scanners because they were on the air so much.
Bob

"pro106import", you are not alone on that one. "So Here's a Blast from the Past".

As a younger gent, I too, remember when the Bridgeport Police was on 39.10 mz. In fact, Waterbury PD was also on the same frequency and at times I would hear them coming in on BPD channel.

I remember a few times when BPD dispatchers had to tell the car calling to "try it again, Waterbury cut you off". That was back in the days when Bridgeport Police cars were painted green/black, and there were three pcts. Fairfield Ave east of Park, 2nd Pct - Artic and Caroline, and 3rd Pct - Fairfield and King.

The first call I heard was a stabbing at a football game at Harding High School. Cars 210, 211, 212 , and 222 responded. Cars 111, 222, and 333 were Emergency Service units.

Of course now I don't listen to that anymore. I just spend my time on a computer writing here, wishing it was like before.

 

[lensam]

I remember back in the early 70's when my father was on, he brought home one of these and I used to listen all the time when he was at work, waiting to hear his voice, way back when there were Red Sector cars

 

[MrAntiDigital]

I remember back in the early 70's when my father was on, he brought home one of these and I used to listen all the time when he was at work, waiting to hear his voice, way back when there were Red Sector cars

"AFLAC", your father sure earned his pay if he was on then. I remember the RED SECTOR cars too. "Red 41, Red 42, Red 43". They were some tough sectors. The East End, the East Side including one of the worst and most dangerous housing projects in the COUNTRY. The world famous Father Panik Village - Waterview, Cresent and Hallett St area. For a period of time, the Bridgeport FD Engine 2 on Clarence St (RIP) had a police car assigned to that firehouse for the sole purpose of protecting those firefighters responding into the area.

We're going back to the days of 39.10 mhz. Then 154.725 mhz. The radio traffic was non stop.

Yes, I remember.

 

[firerick100]

"AFLAC", your father sure earned his pay if he was on then. I remember the RED SECTOR cars too. "Red 41, Red 42, Red 43". They were some tough sectors. The East End, the East Side including one of the worst and most dangerous housing projects in the COUNTRY. The world famous Father Panik Village - Waterview, Cresent and Hallett St area. For a period of time, the Bridgeport FD Engine 2 on Clarence St (RIP) had a police car assigned to that firehouse for the sole purpose of protecting those firefighters responding into the area.

We're going back to the days of 39.10 mhz. Then 154.725 mhz. The radio traffic was non stop.

Yes, I remember.

When i started scanning my first scanner was a radio shack pro-46 and was a 100 channel programmable back in the 80's. Anyway at that time waterbury was on 460.600 and had 2 channels i forget what rhe other channel was and the fd was 154.325. Those were the days when everything worked perfect,

 

[Firebuff66]

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There is a couple of things I'd like to ask him though. That is how much money did this whole radio thing cost the taxpayers of the city. When there was NOTHING at all wrong with those radios before. And who was the lucky sales person to put all that extra change in their pockets..

There is no "Sales Person" local that makes money, Systems like that go to bid and the radio vendor (in this case Motorola) wins the bid and they pick a local shop to do the work. All the options come with the system and the customer decides what options to use and not to use, and being involved in many of these systems I have seen that most of the decisions on options (like Encryption) are made by talking to other departments that use a similar system and not by a push from the vendors radio shop (The customer talks to their friends in other departments)

In Bridgeport's case,The old system they had needed to narrow band, the repeaters they had could not do that because they were so old so they had to buy new ones, The portable and mobiles they had were 20+ years old so it was time to replace them. When they got the system Motorola ADP encryption was $50 extra per radio (Now its free) and digital is the logical migration when buying a new system because of all its benefits.
Encryption is a choice made by the department, Some use it 100% like Bridgeport and some turn it off and on as needed.

Any public safety entity using 20 year old radios has little defense in court when someone dies because the radio failed. Just like fire trucks, police cars, hoses, and guns, a radio is a tool and a piece of equipment you use to do your job safely. If your a cop looking at the wrong end of a gun or a firefighter in a building on fire, you want your equipment to work the best it can when its most needed!

I have lots of scanners and listen to the entire state, I think there are 10 departments I cant listen to and that includes NO fire departments. So complaining that you cant listen to something because they are digital is a choice, not a problem with digital.

If you want to buy a BCD996P2 scanner I would be happy to program it for you so you can listen to the departments you miss, and I can make it simple to operate.

 

[georged4997]

BRIDGEPORT

There is no "Sales Person" local that makes money, Systems like that go to bid and the radio vendor (in this case Motorola) wins the bid and they pick a local shop to do the work. All the options come with the system and the customer decides what options to use and not to use, and being involved in many of these systems I have seen that most of the decisions on options (like Encryption) are made by talking to other departments that use a similar system and not by a push from the vendors radio shop (The customer talks to their friends in other departments)

In Bridgeport's case,The old system they had needed to narrow band, the repeaters they had could not do that because they were so old so they had to buy new ones, The portable and mobiles they had were 20+ years old so it was time to replace them. When they got the system Motorola ADP encryption was $50 extra per radio (Now its free) and digital is the logical migration when buying a new system because of all its benefits.
Encryption is a choice made by the department, Some use it 100% like Bridgeport and some turn it off and on as needed.

Any public safety entity using 20 year old radios has little defense in court when someone dies because the radio failed. Just like fire trucks, police cars, hoses, and guns, a radio is a tool and a piece of equipment you use to do your job safely. If your a cop looking at the wrong end of a gun or a firefighter in a building on fire, you want your equipment to work the best it can when its most needed!

I have lots of scanners and listen to the entire state, I think there are 10 departments I cant listen to and that includes NO fire departments. So complaining that you cant listen to something because they are digital is a choice, not a problem with digital.

If you want to buy a BCD996P2 scanner I would be happy to program it for you so you can listen to the departments you miss, and I can make it simple to operate.

I retired there 14 years ago. Are radios weren't that old. We had voter boxes around the city at that time. If they had repeaters years ago , There would of been no problem. The problem was loosing reception way out in the westside of the city were engine 7 and ladder 11 is.

 

[firerick100]

There is no "Sales Person" local that makes money, Systems like that go to bid and the radio vendor (in this case Motorola) wins the bid and they pick a local shop to do the work. All the options come with the system and the customer decides what options to use and not to use, and being involved in many of these systems I have seen that most of the decisions on options (like Encryption) are made by talking to other departments that use a similar system and not by a push from the vendors radio shop (The customer talks to their friends in other departments)

In Bridgeport's case,The old system they had needed to narrow band, the repeaters they had could not do that because they were so old so they had to buy new ones, The portable and mobiles they had were 20+ years old so it was time to replace them. When they got the system Motorola ADP encryption was $50 extra per radio (Now its free) and digital is the logical migration when buying a new system because of all its benefits.
Encryption is a choice made by the department, Some use it 100% like Bridgeport and some turn it off and on as needed.

Any public safety entity using 20 year old radios has little defense in court when someone dies because the radio failed. Just like fire trucks, police cars, hoses, and guns, a radio is a tool and a piece of equipment you use to do your job safely. If your a cop looking at the wrong end of a gun or a firefighter in a building on fire, you want your equipment to work the best it can when its most needed!

I have lots of scanners and listen to the entire state, I think there are 10 departments I cant listen to and that includes NO fire departments. So complaining that you cant listen to something because they are digital is a choice, not a problem with digital.

If you want to buy a BCD996P2 scanner I would be happy to program it for you so you can listen to the departments you miss, and I can make it simple to operate.

Yoy must be related to manny he also has mulri several scanners, you must have one hell of an antenna to hear the state. Lol i want one so i can too

 

[N1SQB]

Yoy must be related to Manny he also has multi several scanners

Ok Rick, thats enough of that! LOL....

Manny

 

[firerick100]

Ok Rick, thats enough of that! LOL....

Manny

Hahaha im catching up to you, i got 3 base and 2 portables right at my shack.