Covington area, is it ENC?

[mancow]

Should I bother loading up some of the conventional channels for a trip to the Covington area in the APX or are they encrypted?

 

[Remington12G]

Most operation is in the clear, I haven't heard encryption yet. Some channels are still FMN and Covington Police is on P25

 

[mancow]

Ok good. Thanks.

 

[scannerboy02]

Covington as in northern Kentucky?

If so they are still conventional analog UHF. They only use P25 on channel 3 for tactical operations and that is encrypted.

 

[KyFireFreak]

Covington as in northern Kentucky?

If so they are still conventional analog UHF. They only use P25 on channel 3 for tactical operations and that is encrypted.

Do they still go "Astro" to talk sensitive stuff on CH 1? They used to do this frequently thinking it was "secure." I know that most talk is conventional analog although. I used to hear some digital communications on CH 1 but haven't paid any attention to them in a while.

I was told that the "Areawide" repeater is dual mode analog/P25 too. Has anyone caught any P25 traffic on it?

 

[scannerboy02]

The only channel they currently use P25 on is channel 3. I saw some info a year or so ago saying they were removing the other P25 channels from the radios.

I have not heard P25 on the area wide but I have been told by others that they have heard it.