Until a tech with the system sees you up here talking about the system and then encrypts it. By your name seems like you are a tech for TSA so I am not surprised not very smart. I wouldn’t call you a tech.
There are people who insist that the state police, if not the whole STARS system, are going to be encrypted by the end of the year anyway.
There are several reasons why one is NAS, fb groups, scanner feeds are the three main reason but as most know VSP uses computers most of the time unless there is a pursuit.
There are definitely a few VSP radio techs floating around on these forums too...
I know I remember my dad and brother telling me the good old days when people just listen and was quiet. He also told me about a time someone had a radio and accident happen in front of the person and people expected for him to call for help thinking since he had a radio he must volunteer but he didn’t have a ham license but had the SO/FD/EMS in his radio unauthorized. Carrying around a radio doesn’t make anyone look cool no matter how many TikTok you see of people doing it. Unless you are authorized to have one just get a pager/scanner and move along. That’s just my two cents.
I have no knowledge of programming a system radio, but I understand it is difficult to program them so they do not affiliate with the system being monitored. That becomes a problem if it shares a radio ID as an actual users radio. It can cause issues for their radio to be rejected from the system.
Good info. Thanks.
