New 4.9 GHz [Wi-Fi] Technology for Public Service

[JGP]

Here is another blow to our scanning hobby. The Milwaukee Police have Open-Sky. Now Waukesah County Police and Fire Departments will start to use this new 4.9 GHz technology to silence police and fire radio.

Go to this web site and check it out. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=409441

I wonder how this will affect the Waukesha County TRS in the long run.

Joel

 

[CapnJon]

Won't be long and Uniden will come out with the scanner that goes to 5 Ghz...They know they'll make beaux coux $$ doing it so we'll just have to wait a year or two...

 

[Sac916]

Won't be long and Uniden will come out with the scanner that goes to 5 Ghz...They know they'll make beaux coux $$ doing it so we'll just have to wait a year or two...

""At some point down the road, yes, 4.9 could replace radio transmissions," Mantey said. "The technology is not there yet that makes it reliable for the field. But as the public safety sector jumps into 4.9, you'll see more vendors producing equipment for it, especially for mobile units."


"Technology that could silence easy-to-monitor police and fire radio chatter with encrypted digital broadband communication will be coming to Waukesha County."

"Mantey said the value of 4.9 is that it's a licensed frequency that public transmissions cannot interfere with. If someone were to break into encrypted transmissions, they would violate federal law, he said."

 

[OpSec]

Oye.......

 

[CapnJon]

Iron Co. uses their encrypt a lot during the day. They've also had a few big drug bust's too so that's prolly why it's encrypted.