andylitch10
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Sorry if I missed this somewhere in the thread, and furthermore if this not the right thread for this discussion, but I'm looking into my amatuer technician license (so new to all of this) and wanting to get a scanner to start picking up radio traffic and learning.
I would like to be able to listen to local police and fire, among other frequencies. I am not familiar enough with the Indiana SAFE-T system at this point, so I'm looking for some answers and recommendations.
My main question is, is the SAFE-T system encrypted to where my scanner search is over before it really started? And if it is not encrypted, is that something that is going to be happening anytime in the near future to where it might not be worth investing in a scanner? Also if encryption is not an issue, should I then be looking for a digital or analog scanner?
I am in the NE part of the state and my family regularly travels to southern Indiana via I-69/-I465/I-65, so I'd like to have something that is portable, or small enough to be portable and ran thru the vehicle's AC or DC power, and can pick up SAFE-T traffic along the way.
I obviously don't want to be able to transmit on the SAFE-T frequencies, but are there any transceivers that can kill two birds with one stone and be used to transmit on the amatuer frequencies and act as a scanner for the SAFE-T frequencies?
Any guidance you for the newby is appreciated! Thank you.
I would like to be able to listen to local police and fire, among other frequencies. I am not familiar enough with the Indiana SAFE-T system at this point, so I'm looking for some answers and recommendations.
My main question is, is the SAFE-T system encrypted to where my scanner search is over before it really started? And if it is not encrypted, is that something that is going to be happening anytime in the near future to where it might not be worth investing in a scanner? Also if encryption is not an issue, should I then be looking for a digital or analog scanner?
I am in the NE part of the state and my family regularly travels to southern Indiana via I-69/-I465/I-65, so I'd like to have something that is portable, or small enough to be portable and ran thru the vehicle's AC or DC power, and can pick up SAFE-T traffic along the way.
I obviously don't want to be able to transmit on the SAFE-T frequencies, but are there any transceivers that can kill two birds with one stone and be used to transmit on the amatuer frequencies and act as a scanner for the SAFE-T frequencies?
Any guidance you for the newby is appreciated! Thank you.