zabuni
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I am researching how to use a scanner to receive signals for a friend of mine. This is what I have learned so far, please correct me if I am wrong:
Conclusion:
San Patricio County is using AEGIS for most of it's voice communications. This makes it difficult to impossible to receive their communications. The voice communications I hear are the people with mobile/old units who don't have AEGIS. It will be difficult for my friend to monitor police channels.
Note, my familiarity of the EDACS and AEGIS models are cursory. I may have made mistakes in the setting of the mode of the channels I was listening to, but it seemed that it was in EDACS mode.
Totally right? Totally wrong? Something in the middle?
- San Patricio County has recently switch to EDACS, currently unecrypted AEGIS and voice.
While the voice is easy enough to listen to, AEGIS isn't, at the very least it costs a great deal of difficult to get equipment to listen to them.
Currently, using my friend's Radio Shack Pro-96 Handheld scanner, I have programmed in the System Frequencies, as per RadioReference.com and the reference manual for the scanner.
Doing this has resulted with two of the system frequencies giving back results. One system frequency gives a constant, unintelligible signal, as if AEGIS was on all the time, and was undecodable.
The other gives a mix of short duration signals like the above, as well as, to a lesser extent, understandable voice communications.
The voice communications are ended by a set of short beeps. I have no idea what this means.
Conclusion:
San Patricio County is using AEGIS for most of it's voice communications. This makes it difficult to impossible to receive their communications. The voice communications I hear are the people with mobile/old units who don't have AEGIS. It will be difficult for my friend to monitor police channels.
Note, my familiarity of the EDACS and AEGIS models are cursory. I may have made mistakes in the setting of the mode of the channels I was listening to, but it seemed that it was in EDACS mode.
Totally right? Totally wrong? Something in the middle?