Not trying to revive this but Allen Co will be removing encryption from certain County Fire talk groups. Unsure of a time frame or what talk groups but the rumor is they will begin testing G5's to replace VHF paging.
That is interesting. I wonder what the motive is behind it? I was at the washington township fire department yesterday and today and it looked like everyone had a minitor 5 with them. Everything is still E as of tonight.
If they are going Unications, then yeah they have to turn off encryption for the Dispatch TG's at the very least. The others will depend on what they put in the Unications. I would expect at least the main FG's/Tacs. At least all the Public Works stuff is Clear, so maybe there is still hope on the rest? Maybe.
That is what we are trying to find out about. Have they begun transition over to the Unications, and turning off the VHF? Have they unstrapped Fire TG's on their P25 to use yet?
I don't know if it's been mentioned anywhere but acps is LSM and older scanners, my pro96 included do not like it. I will have to load it in the sds100 sometime and try it. I've been out of town for awhile but I'll see if I can listen again and update anything.