Orange County Police Departments

[Pekkle]

Since most of OC's Police Departments are Mostly Digital and Encrypted, what can people scan in Orange County anyways?

 

[oregontreehugger]

Looks like just about everything else...

http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=TRSDB&sid=201

 

[Mick]

Of similar interest for monitoring is the CHP with 3 offices in Or. Co. There are State Park Rangers at 3 main State Parks in Or. Co. Traffic Sigalerts are on 151.085 MHz. Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm are interesting, as well as business frqs.

Since most of OC's Police Departments are Mostly Digital and Encrypted, what can people scan in Orange County anyways?

 

[HBdigital1]

too bad we as citizens of OC have no say in how our property tax dollars are spent, as this system really gets me going the wrong way!!! I suppose to hear about a routine traffic stop or officers wanting to "1087" for code 7 is just too confidential for anyone to hear. Who knows, in interest of national security, maybe insurgents are planning on doing a heist at your neighborhood TOGO's, and has an accomplice listening in to warn of the police are coming, so the sandwiches won't all be taken!!!!

 

[Pekkle]

That is really bad for people that lived in the orange county area, some people may not care, but what I listen everyday are police radios, I find them very exciting.. Luckily I live in Los Angeles County, but you never know if one day LA County might follow OC's foot step.. that will be one dark day for southern california. Hope that day will never come or else my $500+ BCD396t would be down the drain..

 

[HBdigital1]

I think that if the local news organizations, like newpaper, TV, radio, place enough pressure on law enforcement so they can listen and report for public information, and with the different police chiefs having good rapport with the public and the scanner monitors doing their hobby lawfully, this should not be a big problem for L.A. county. There ARE various police depts who WANT us to monitor, to help in calling in reports, etc, and I sure wish they were in OC. A couple years ago, on the Irvine PD website, they had sound bites from a police dispatch, and judging by the unit number, it was LAPD, division 13, Newton division!!! So even for a 15-30 sec sound bite, Irvine didn't post an example of a dispatch call!!! Now, how secretive is that??????? I'll rest it here, just venting. Enjoy monitoring L.A.!!!

 

[Station51]

Try This

If you live in North OC you can get non stop entertainment by listening to Long Beach Police (Los Angeles County), and either Lakewood or Norwalk stations of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept. Both have strong signals. I can get Lakewood dispatch out near Palm Springs! A little scratchy, but audible.
I lived in the City of Orange back in the day. It was indeed a dark day that they went to a trunked system. Miss listening to 'Red" channel (One channel that was dedicated to crime broadcasts and pursuits countywide).
Another option would be to move! I did.
Now I live in VHF land except for the Riverside County Sheriffs trunked system which is a pain in the butt.
If you live in South County you're pretty much stuck with the CHP, or occasional traffic from the Border Patrol in the 160 band.

 

[brandon]

Orange County RED Channel is about the only thing you can hear. I've heard a few good pursuits on it, and they put out lots of BOL's.

It's too bad OC went encrypted. They should at least make dispatch channels available and just keep the encryption for SWAT and Narco ops.

I saw a few episodes of Cops where they were in Santa Ana and the offers were using the encrypted system. I didn't think the audio wasn't very good and definitely had a digital sound to it (more than my scanners). I wonder if anyone has complained about audio quality problems? It was interesting though to hear how encrypted traffic sounds via an authorized radio.

While on the subject, I've wondered if officers in Orange County allowed to take radios home with them and monitor their agency when off duty? Guess that is one way you could monitor them... by becoming a police officer

 

[WayneH]

I saw a few episodes of Cops where they were in Santa Ana and the offers were using the encrypted system. I didn't think the audio wasn't very good and definitely had a digital sound to it (more than my scanners). I wonder if anyone has complained about audio quality problems? It was interesting though to hear how encrypted traffic sounds via an authorized radio.

With encrypted digital you can't tell the difference between encrypted and clear. It's with analog 12kbit Securenet encryption where things are really screwed up.

-Wayne

 

[ColoradoRedlands]

While on the subject, I've wondered if officers in Orange County allowed to take radios home with them and monitor their agency when off duty? Guess that is one way you could monitor them... by becoming a police officer

That would depend on the agency, but most would not have enough handhelds for everyone to take home. As you probably know, most peace officers in general are not scanner people. Those same ones could care less about taking a radio home unless it was required.

Those of us that are scanner people, dislike the encryption, probably more than anyone. Once I was in a position to take a radio home everyday, it still only let me listen to my own agency. Since the radios do not scan, you are left listening to one talkgroup at a time. The radios are not able to listen to other agency dispatch channels, so if you happen to live outside your own agency's boundaries you aren't able to listen to law enforcement where you live.

 

[2wayfreq]

I think if enough radio monitor/scanner, RUG,SCMA,Amateur, newsmedia groups in the OC area jointly present formal justification to the Police Chiefs and Sheriff Carona, they might just unencrypt the dispatch channels. I would get in contact with the groups in Phoenix for insight on how they presented thier reasoning. As we know, PPD went ahead and made the dispatch talk groups Astro Clear but kept the rest secure. I think its worth a shot. Anyone in Phoenix reading this? We need some insight. Thanks

 

[JoeyC]

An old saying comes to mind.

"when hell freezes over"

yeah, thats the one!

 

[1979lee]

Orange County RED Channel is about the only thing you can hear. I've heard a few good pursuits on it, and they put out lots of BOL's.

What Is The Frequnecy for the Orange County RED Channel ?
thanks

 

[brandon]

It's on the OC trunk system:
http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=TRSDB&sid=201

Talkgroup is: 50720 and it's digital so you will need a capable scanner. It's not very active but you should hear something (usually a BOL) within an hour or so.

 

[1979lee]

thanks , looks like iam out of luck i only have a pro-94

 

[jtf6agent]

is this what you are looking for

868.6350
metro north 8686250
" " " Net ntr 868.6250
Laguna beach 868.6250

these come up in my brand new trunker. I hoe it's what yoy want.

 

[SCPD]

While on the subject, I've wondered if officers in Orange County allowed to take radios home with them and monitor their agency when off duty? Guess that is one way you could monitor them... by becoming a police officer

If I was a police officer in Orange Co. I would have no desire to monitor my agency off duty. Officers need time away from the stress of the job and bringing the job home would lead to early burnout, which can occur soon enough as it is. This is why so many police officers, especially in large urban areas, are not scanner buffs. They would not recommend becoming a police officer in order to monitor encrypted communications. Turning scanning from an advocation into a vocation has many disadvantages.

 

[HBdigital1]

agreed with the last reply; I am a physician, and have to use my beeper on-call, and when I was in undergrad, I thought it would be GREAT to have a beeper, look important, etc., but when I got to do real "work", that beeper became a curse, and I still dislike to turn it on!!! So if I were a police officer, I would certainly NOT want to take the radio or "rover" back home! With the hobyist though, who listen in just for information, etc, we feel much different, and it doesn't feel "good" to be "shut out" of monitoring routine stuff in OC, and with our county"s already low overall crime rate, and higher property values, is this the price we pay for living in an otherwise more affluent county? What percentage of our property tax goes to law enforcement, and how much of that goes to pay for communications, esp with the higher cost of these encrypted radios, with programming, servers, etc???? There is no "watchdog" for this, other than the police depts themselves?????????