Roanoke Valley System Changes

[Listener1440]

Noticed the Roanoke Valley System is gaining more "Es". The Roanoke City Fire-EMS just received one on TAC7.

Interestingly enough, there has not been much traffic on several of their talkgroups, so wondering if they have already or will be going all the way eventually.

The Western Virginia Water Authority must be using some other way to communicate or maybe encryption there, because their talkgroup is been quiet as well.

If anyone has any insight, please share.

73s

 

[richardbritt]

Do you have a pro2096, pro96, or ws1040 by any chance? You could run pro96com and watch the controllers of trunk systems and see if they are encrypted or not. I watch 6 different sites when I am in Northeastern NC. It's a fun way to find little used talkgroups and watch radios affiliate and which talkgroups are encrypted or not.

 

[Listener1440]

Thanks for the response. Only Uniden BCD436HP, Homepatrol 2, and SDS100. Not sure if I can accomplish it with them.

 

[richardbritt]

Nope. Proscan might have the ability to report talkgroups as encrypted but I have never tried to figure that out. Can't hurt to watch the truck system on Proscan and see if anything shows up. Or try using discover mode. I know encrypted transmissions show up but you of course don't get any audio. But it will anything on the trunk tower will show up if it transmits

 

[sdabbey]

You can also use SDRTrunk to do this if you have a couple of cheap RTL-SDRs around.