Entire County (Willacy) Switched to P25?

[wilcomister]

I have noticed that all main of the agencies County Sheriff, City Police, County EMS, have switched over to possibly Encrypted P25!

Plugged in the freqs in my motorola astro and whenever they were transmitting i got the R2D2 (starwars) sound, and the double flash led, (meaning its encrypted)..... Well the S.O. seems to be Encrypted 24/7 and Police just regular P25 with a few encrypted transmissions, and EMS I can hear an occasional P25 Transmission, all tho mainly Analog.....

 

[VintageJon]

What County are you in?

In Travis County it is rarely encrypted, except Drugs, HLS, and Surviellance...

-Jon

 

[bpckty1]

Must be that Homeland Security feeling, oops, funding...

 

[rattlerbb01]

Must be like Laredo, which shows all of its police channels encrypted. Maybe the border area agencies don't want traffickers listening in since they assist border patrol and others.

 

[wilcomister]

It's Willacy County, also I asked. The Sheriff's office is DES-OFB 24/7......

 

[225Texas]

Everyone is scrambling to get P25 Digital for the Texas DPS. But I can guarantee that the "old" frequencies will be used once in a while. Examples: 155.3700, and 154.9500. So keep those old frequencies in there, but make room for the new ones!