Princess Cruises DMR Encryption

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After a 2 year absence Princess Cruises has mostly returned to sailing. Before Covid I used a BFDX CS580 for Princess DMR scanning. Princess DMR was not encrypted. Yesterday I scanned the Island Princess frequencies while onboard. Lots of bridge ship/shore activity according to the CS5880 talk indicator but no expected unencrypted CS580 audio output was heard. I now have the idea that Princess Cruises and possibly Carnival as well has introduced DMR encryption during the absence from their no sailing period.
 
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IT could be, but until we get more folks reporting other ships it would be only a Guess that they did.

However, it could have been your programming, recently had someone tell me the NCL was all ENC
yet, my monitoring [one ship this spring] did not validate the statement of ENC

IF anyone is around the ports, I find Arrival and Departure times the best for Searching and confirming.
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After a 2 year absence Princess Cruises has mostly returned to sailing. Before Covid I used a BFDX CS580 for Princess DMR scanning. Princess DMR was not encrypted. Yesterday I scanned the Island Princess frequencies while onboard. Lots of bridge ship/shore activity according to the CS5880 talk indicator but no expected unencrypted CS580 audio output was heard. I now have the idea that Princess Cruises and possibly Carnival as well has introduced DMR encryption during the absence from their no sailing period.
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Thank you. Connect Systems has just told me that the DMR CS580 cannot output RAS audio. Now asking what would be a small light weight RAS scanner for on ship Princess scanning?
 
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