PHILLY'S ENCRYPTED FREQS

[Pipe22line_nlr]

WHY ARE PHILL'S FIRE TAC CHANNELS ENCRYPTED I DON'T SEE WHY THEY WOULD BE ENCRYPTED THEY'RE NOT SAYING ANYTHING THAT IS SECRET.

 

[DELCOLHFC]

There is no GOOD reason for encryption on Philly fire radio other than thats what the boss wanted. I agree that nothing said on the Tac channels should be a secret, but with encryption everything becomes a secret. I could understand keeping one Tac channel on both the north and south bands encrypted for use when sensitive info must be discussed but to have all fireground comms encrypted does not make any sense.

 

[N_Jay]

There is no GOOD reason for encryption on Philly fire radio . . .

Google {Philadelphia Move 1985}

 

[PhilaPoliceRadio]

There is no GOOD reason for encryption on Philly fire radio other than thats what the boss wanted. I agree that nothing said on the Tac channels should be a secret, but with encryption everything becomes a secret. I could understand keeping one Tac channel on both the north and south bands encrypted for use when sensitive info must be discussed but to have all fireground comms encrypted does not make any sense.

I agree also and this has been discussed before. There is no real sensitive communications that go over the fireground channels. "Johnson, we have a 5292 on the second floor," is that sensitive? Communications like that go over the North/South Fire/Medic bands, along with all the Philadelphia Police bands.

I do believe that there should be encryption with particular units in the PFD, but then you would have an incompatibility if the end-unit doesn't have the encryption board in which it is intended for.

The Philadelphia Police Dept did just right on the encryption. NFU, CA, IA, ect -- Frank Rizzo, Jr. originally did want ALL communications to be encrypted but could not be fitted in the budget. If it did end up going encrypted, what a joke that would of been. No department should ever use encryption on every talkground/frequency -- something to hide?

What a waste of money!