Columbus, NE Police go encrypted

[elephant]

Columbus PD will be switching to a new system that will allow them to encrypt transmissions.
Here is a link to the cities newspaper article.

Columbus PD may mute dispatch information | Local | columbustelegram.com

 

[cellphone]

I wouldn't be surprised to see them go MOTOTRBO like Clay, Jefferson, and Thayer Counties. MOTOTRBO does not cost that much more than analog for a conventional repeater, and encryption capability is included.

 

[ORION_NE]

Bet both Platte county and Columbus go to the SRS

 

[610]

Platte SO SRS, Columbus PD P25

 

[ORION_NE]

Heard digital traffic on 154.725 this morning. Was too weak for my 996p2 to decode audio or a NAC code. Anyone closer to Columbus hear the same thing?

This also could have been Omaha tribe in Thurston county. They have a license for either NEXEDGE or DMR can't remember right now.

 

[33kracing]

any updates to columbus police dept using p25 or mototrbo or srs?? i see where the database for the frequency has not been updated as of 4/2018.

 

[KF0SKV]

I haven't heard anything different over the Humphrey Tower, which would be the most likely site to hear Platte County SO and Columbus PD, if they are using SRS. Osceola Tower would be another site they may affiliate to, but I'm a wee bit too far and too low here in Norfolk to hear Osceola unless I go northwest of town to the hills.