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Just having an online back and forth with someone claiming that Skook unencrypted their fire ops talk groups. Anyone aware of that, or is he just full of ish?
 

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For all the firehouses in the Skook, you’d think somebody up there would be on these forums. FWIW, I haven’t seen any mention of changes in several FB groups I follow for fire activity in the county.

Unfortunately, work doesn’t take me up that way anymore, so I won’t be thru there anytime soon to check.
 

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For all the firehouses in the Skook, you’d think somebody up there would be on these forums. FWIW, I haven’t seen any mention of changes in several FB groups I follow for fire activity in the county.

Unfortunately, work doesn’t take me up that way anymore, so I won’t be thru there anytime soon to check.
I will have to make the trip and check it out. That would be great, but I am pretty sure I would have heard by now if true.
 

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All Schuylkill County services on the Trunk System are Still fully ENC with fair signal reception in Lebanon County.
 

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I’m currently taking a break from reprogramming my scanner right now. I’ll throw Skook back in but in my hole in the valley north of there I’m way too far away to hope for a miracle & get a hit on the system to see.
 

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Just having an online back and forth with someone claiming that Skook unencrypted their fire ops talk groups. Anyone aware of that, or is he just full of ish?
While I don't know if it's true or not their decision to completely encrypt the FD/EMS side of the system is completely unnecessary and makes comms with mutual aid alot more difficult.
 

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Welcome to Pennsylvania!

No luck for me as I figured. I’m in a hole and too far away to get any hits. Unfortunately I can only pick up the dispatch channel from my QTH. That is a nice change though. I lost the ability to pick that up about 10-15 years ago so I’m glad that I can at least get that again.
 

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Is Schuylkill County still toning out FD's on 154.070 ?

And I agree. Have a encrypted system for FD/EMS is insane. They can have 1 encrypted talk-group for private transmissions, but other than that, it's not needed.
 

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Do they also tone out on 46.50 or was that just for response, replaced by the new VHF encrypted system?
 
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