Chicago DEA

[mike_s104]

Could you post an audio sample? It might help determine what it is.

 

[emt_531]

click.....click

 

[stim]

clicking

the dea, as well as other federal agencys have gone to p-25 ditgal, you are hearing a form of tramission, but can only hear it in the clear if you have a ditgal scanner

 

[ke5fgc]

the dea, as well as other federal agencys have gone to p-25 ditgal, you are hearing a form of tramission, but can only hear it in the clear if you have a ditgal scanner

The UHF DEA freqs in my area are still FM.. So that statement is not entirely true.

 

[davidbond21]

I have a PRO96 and you would expect the dea with all their civil forfeiture assets to be able to buy P25 radios, but the conversations we have been hearing, such as stationary/mobile surveillance, are on analog FM according to the scanner.

I might talk trash but I sure am glad that I can still monitor this. With digital radios they would probably be running encryption as standard procedure.

 

[poltergeisty]

FWIW...When my local police department made the switch to the State wide P25 system, their former VHF dispatch frequency was always keying on/off. Very annoying! This is what actually lead me to this forum several years ago when it was truckedradio.net I believe.. (I had another user name)

Don't have a clue on what the hell that was I heard that lasted for about a month. So in lieu of this, I would suspect either a repeater is gong off line or they're moving to a new system.

 

[radionerd13669]

The Clicking could be encription.There is a from of it that all you will here is clicking how ever the radios here voice

 

[W9GC]

The clicks you described are caused by an undercover DEA agent who pissed himself after drinking one to many 20 oz. Mountain Dew's while engaged in a long surveillance session. Apparently the urine seeped into his radio causing an electrical short, hence the repeated clicking. Just give it time, it will dry out.

 

[davidbond21]

Ha! That's pretty funny gc505, and I think I can believe it too. I heard the guys in my area one day at the end of surveillance operation, made sure everyone involved copy that they were leaving, and then relayed a story among themselves about how now they make double sure everybody has checked out because a couple of years ago one of their buddies didn't hear the message and got left at the target for quite a long while, none the wiser.

The way you state that gc505, makes me think it has happened, at least once before.