Hamptom pd permanent encryption

[FFEMTCURRENCE]

true but if i get the job it wouldnt matter...plus its over 50% encrypted anyway, they want to keep the callers information from going over the air

 

[fmon]

Thanks Eric!!

Please don't do any interviews in my city.

 

[FFEMTCURRENCE]

Why not, i never said encryption was a good thing...i was just informing people on what was said but w/e take it for what its worth, wasn't trying to start an argument

 

[fmon]

true but if i get the job it wouldnt matter

Very SELFISH statement. How bout us in area listening to them for years w/o ENC. In your interview ya fixed it...you told them to encrypt the rest of system. Again, don't interview in my town--we don't need any blabbermouths over here.

 

[FFEMTCURRENCE]

wasn't a blabber mouth, i was being interviewed and that came up in it and what should i lie half-way through, no i rather be honest, was i thinking at the time hey if i tell them this or that it might be made for more encryption no..and yea that was selfish statement we all make mistakes, my apologies to rdale

 

[BoxAlarm187]

wasn't a blabber mouth, i was being interviewed and that came up in it and what should i lie half-way through, no i rather be honest

Having worked in public safety since I was 18, including serving on law enforcement interview panels, I can assure you, scanners never come up during interviews. You volunteered the information to the staff in order to try to "make a connection" with them. In doing so, you gave for the department more ammunition to encrypt their transmissions.

Please never bring this up again.

 

[tglendye]

Having worked in public safety since I was 18, including serving on law enforcement interview panels, I can assure you, scanners never come up during interviews. You volunteered the information to the staff in order to try to "make a connection" with them. In doing so, you gave for the department more ammunition to encrypt their transmissions.

Please never bring this up again.

Yep... I was trying to figure out how a scanner topic would be brought up in a job interview. Just doesn't happen. I doubt the volunteered information served well during the interview.

 

[FFEMTCURRENCE]

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You werent there so you have no right saying what was said..believe it or not it's done can't be changed now

 

[33]

Dang, that sucks. Inform when they begin again.

 

[brueger]

All

All this with Eric is a bunch of BS. He had nothing to do with anything! And I can't believe that anyone would believe this especially if you had read the thread from the beginning!

I will write more in the morning.

 

[33]

What do you mean it's a bunch of BS?

 

[brueger]

5th Ammendment

I wonder what else the US government gonna to take from us. We do different than those commonist countries. We have to defend our fifth amendment rights brothers and sisters.

I wonder what all this has to do with the "5th Amendment?"

"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

 

[brueger]

HPD Encryption

What do you mean it's a bunch of BS?

What I mean by "BS?" It's called "male bovine fecal matter."

FFEMTCURRENCE said that he went for a job interview (Hampton????) "yesterday" and his post is dated Jun29th. Hampton PD cut over to encryption on June 13th. So, his comments had nothing to do with Hampton PD going encrypted.

 

[digitalman]

HAMPTON P25 HPD Encryption

Originally Posted by greywolf53
I wonder what else the US government gonna to take from us. We do different than those commonist countries. We have to defend our fifth amendment rights brothers and sisters.

I think he maybe means the 4th- but that still has nothing to do woth Hampton encryption or if someone interviews for a job with Hampton Public Safety- they are not going to encrypt due to interview information. The reason is intel probably from SIU raids or arrest- investigators uncovered some findings- IMHO. But, SIU/SWAT/INFO and several tac channels were already encrypted from the beginning 12/13/2010. If Hampton wanted to prevent eavesdropping- they could have kept the EDACS and upgraded to Pro Voice or simply used Pro Voice/Encryption on the sensitive TG's similar to Spotsylvanina County.

 

[steve888]

Wow, this is not what someone thinking about buying their first scanner wants to read! I live in Fairfax County which is currently not encrypted but reading about all of these other departments going in that direction is not good.

And I was all ready to buy a PSR-600 or BCD996XT...but not if all I'll get to listen to one day in the future is taxi cab transmissions

 

[gcgrotz]

Wow, this is not what someone thinking about buying their first scanner wants to read! I live in Fairfax County which is currently not encrypted but reading about all of these other departments going in that direction is not good.

And I was all ready to buy a PSR-600 or BCD996XT...but not if all I'll get to listen to one day in the future is taxi cab transmissions

Sorry Steve, but the taxi company here went to voice inversion scrambling some years ago. Too many drivers had scanners I guess.

You can however, still listen to trains and planes. At least for now. Make sure the scanner you get has UHF air 270-400 MHz.

 

[steve888]

Sorry Steve, but the taxi company here went to voice inversion scrambling some years ago. Too many drivers had scanners I guess.

You can however, still listen to trains and planes. At least for now. Make sure the scanner you get has UHF air 270-400 MHz.

Hmm, trains and plains...I dunno. Something about that just doesn't sound too exciting to me.

In all honesty, though, how long do you think it will be before everything is fully encrypted and scanners won't even be useful for anything. Do you think it will ever happen? Wouldn't the media get involved somehow, since they all use scanners to report the news. Aren't their First Amendment arguments that can be made against a police state that operates in total secrecy? Or has the First Amendment pretty much already been nullified in our society at this point (in the name of protecting us against terrorists, of course).

 

[gcgrotz]

Actually, trains and planes can provide a lot of listening. Something going on all the time, depending on your location. I am spoiled here because there are 2 different train lines crossing in town and all the regional ATC frequencies have their transmitters on a 3800 ft mountain so we can hear both the controller and most of the planes on several busy airways coming and going to the DC area. Besides, Yellow Cab was pretty boring back in the day ;-) Pop over to the MD forum and look up the MilAir group; those guys have a lot of fun.

As for the encryption thing, right now it is expensive for localities to buy encryption options for all their radios. They can, however, do like Orange and Rockingham County and just buy something that scanners can't decode thereby getting de-facto encryption. As long as the Fed keeps giving our money away to local governments in the form of grants, they will keep spending it for fancy toys. The other piece of that is that as the price of technology keeps dropping (unlike food) more and more localities will be able to get more sophisticated stuff. Heck, the CDMA cellphone in my pocket is pretty much impossible to monitor over the air and look how cheap that is.

 

[steve888]

Actually, trains and planes can provide a lot of listening. Something going on all the time, depending on your location. I am spoiled here because there are 2 different train lines crossing in town and all the regional ATC frequencies have their transmitters on a 3800 ft mountain so we can hear both the controller and most of the planes on several busy airways coming and going to the DC area. Besides, Yellow Cab was pretty boring back in the day ;-) Pop over to the MD forum and look up the MilAir group; those guys have a lot of fun.

As for the encryption thing, right now it is expensive for localities to buy encryption options for all their radios. They can, however, do like Orange and Rockingham County and just buy something that scanners can't decode thereby getting de-facto encryption. As long as the Fed keeps giving our money away to local governments in the form of grants, they will keep spending it for fancy toys. The other piece of that is that as the price of technology keeps dropping (unlike food) more and more localities will be able to get more sophisticated stuff. Heck, the CDMA cellphone in my pocket is pretty much impossible to monitor over the air and look how cheap that is.

Thanks for that info. I actually live less than 2 miles from an Amtrak station so as soon as I get my scanner, I'll program some of their frequencies into it. And Maryland is only about 16 miles aware from me, too!