IS FAYETTEVILLE PD ENCRYPTING?

[k5xs]

I have been copying Fayetteville (Ark) PD reliably on my Uniden 250D for several weeks. Today (October 11th), however, I have been unable to copy Fayetteville PD. Instead, I hear what appears to be a control channel data stream on TG 49424.

Every once in a while, I will hear a unit come up and call headquarters. The dispatcher will respond with "Unit ##, you're on the wrong channel." At that point I hear a stream of data, suggesting they have activated an encrypted channel.

I am hearing the water department and Drake Field maintenance fine.

Does anyone know if something has changed?

Thanks.

Bernie Skoch
Arkansas

 

[chrish04]

they went to digital on monday

 

[bill71]

Well I have egg on my face, in another post I was talking about public opinion kept Fayetteville from going digital/encrypted. Lets hope they don't go totally encrypted.
This morning when I heard F.P.D., they were talking to K-90. That tag sounds like their new 4A Dispatch channel.

Bill H.

 

[k5xs]

Can an APCO 25 Scanner Decypher Them Now?

Thanks for the replies. Given that they went digital on Monday, will the APCO 25 scanners (e.g.-Uniden BC-296D) decypher the transmissions?

Thanks.

Bernie Skoch
Arkansas

 

[bill71]

Yes-I have been listening to them today. I have a Pro-96, it seems to pick them up well. It does seem Fay. can encrypt when needed, a unit was transmitting when the dispatcher told him he was encrypted and she couldn't understand him, she told him to take it off encryption and try again.

tags heard:
Police A-49424
Police B-49456
Police C-49488
Police D-49552

 

[stormchaser203]

I guess they did since I went to the database & seen it for myself,so that
does mean they're digital & encrypted.
Fayetteville PD did the exact same thing EMSA ambulance in Tulsa did:
went digital & encrypted.
Bureaucracy sucks,doesn't it?
They get the high dollar stuff at the cost of the little people like you & me
since they profligately use tax dollars to get stuff they hype the heck out
of since they say it is tested & ready to go.
As I'd stated before:
GIVE ME A BREAK!
:!:

 

[k5xs]

Fayetteville Update

To update everyone, Fayetteville PD went back to non-digital last week, but then on Monday I heard radio technicians testing the APCO25 system.

As of this Tuesday, the PD is running full-time APCO25, other users on the trunked system are not. My new BC-296D is receiving them all well.

Also, on rare occasion, a PD unit will go encrypted.

 

[k5xs]

Fayetteville Update

To update everyone, Fayetteville PD went back to non-digital last week, but then on Monday I heard radio technicians testing the APCO25 system.

As of this Tuesday, the PD is running full-time APCO25, other users on the trunked system are not. My new BC-296D is receiving them all well.

Also, on rare occasion, a PD unit will go encrypted.