I am basically sick of the mainstream media sucking up to TPTB. NBC10 did a segment when the County first switched to the system touting that encryption is the latest and greatest crime fighting tool. Give me a break.
Soap box on…. My not so happy predictions for the future
As more and more law enforcement agencies encrypt there will be less and less to monitor. (Already In central Florida around Orlando almost the entire metro area's law enforcement is encrypted). When more encrypt Uniden and Whistler will sell less and less scanners. When break even can't be sustained, they will either not put much R&D into the new radios or drop out of the market completely. It just makes good business sense. When that happens the scanner enthusiast will have to resort to home brew methods to monitor the airwaves. Basically go underground. It's funny that the hobby started with homebrew technology before scanners and will probably end up that way in the future. Full circle.
Lucky for us, if the scanners leave the market, we have enough communications engineers and coders to produce open source SDR based receivers. These technologies would not be limited by the manufacturer so technologies such as DMR, Turbo, Provoice, correct audio on narrowband analog, etc can be a reality. So a new dawn may emerge from the ashes.
So we're eavesdroppers now. How soon the media forgets they have been eavesdroppers too before all these new systems were deployed. What a bunch of hypocrites. If Camden city wanted secure transmissions they could have went with provoice long ago like the DRPA did. Not totally secure but it would have kept the average scanner listen out.
