Fort Wayne Question

[ACEMA024]

Had someone tell me the Fort Wayne Allen Co. has turned off Encryption. Anyone have insight . I high doubt that is true but wanted to check....

Chad

 

[c_snyder]

As of now (Wednesday 12/12/18) ACPS is still using encryption on all talk groups.

 

[bucknut937]

Ugh I’m making a trip to Fort Wayne looks like the scanners going to be dead with nothing to listen too.

 

[fire622]

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.

 

[c_snyder]

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.

 

[KD4YGG]

Any update on any talkgroups having 'E' turned off?

 

[INDY72]

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.

 

[n3obl]

they could still be paging fire via two tone?

154.01000

156.06000

KNBU361

RM

203.5 PL

COUNTY FIRE DISP

Allen County Fire Dispatch

FMN

Fire Dispatch

 

[INDY72]

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?

 

[KD4YGG]

As of today, 154.010 still active.
It is being simulcast on TG 2041, no encryption.

 

[ACEMA024]

Good to know about the simulcast. Will have to see if I can pick it up here.

 

[meggabad]

There are about 6-8 Tg's in the clear, ACFD Disp, FWFD Training, some ops ch's.

 

[ACEMA024]

Does Anyone know if the Fire OP's 11 is Open? also the talk group number?

 

[ACEMA024]

As of 20:00 can not pick up Allen Co. from Decatur...

 

[INDY72]

Does Anyone know if the Fire OP's 11 is Open? also the talk group number?

Ops 11 thru 14 and tac 1 thru 8 don't know numbers

 

[ACEMA024]

Anything special programming wise for the Allen Co. P25 system.
ws1040

 

[meggabad]

What I have so far is,

2041 - ACFD Disp
1551 - FWFD Training
1553 - Tac 7 (Fire, not sure which agency)
1555 - Fire Tac, not sure which agency, probably AC Fire.

All are clear and unencrypted.

 

[ACEMA024]

Meggabad. What control channel do you have? I was in Fort Wayne today and cricuts (New Haven went out on .010 ) did not hear a thing on the 800...

 

[c_snyder]

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.