Why can I no longer get the Virginia State Police on my BCD9662P2 scanner. I used to get all the Division5 calls, but now I get none. Can anyone tell me why? I downloaded all the local channels from Radioreference, but just get radio silence. Thanks.
Virginia State Police
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They went encrypted in the fall.
All other talkgroups on STARS are also encrypted.
All other talkgroups on STARS are also encrypted.
I don't understand why Radioreference doesn't make members aware of encripted channels and pull them from download when they know listeners cannot get them on any scanner. Would sure help with the aggrivation !!
Radio Reference is crowd sourced.
If no-one ever made the effort to submit these changes, it ain't ever gonna show it.
Please feel free.
Look in the upper right corner of every system's RR page......
The Division talkgroups for VSP are already listed as encrypted with an E on the link below.
I also check on radio reference before I program either my scanner or Unications with going to a lot of a places when I don't have local knowledge.
You really can't blame radio reference, since you didn't look before.
I also check on radio reference before I program either my scanner or Unications with going to a lot of a places when I don't have local knowledge.
You really can't blame radio reference, since you didn't look before.
Virginia Statewide Agencies Radio System (STARS) Trunking System, Statewide, Virginia
Virginia Statewide Agencies Radio System (STARS) Trunking System Profile
www.radioreference.com
As @K
As @KJ4DHF showed you, RR does warn people, secondly my TRX scanner will receive the transmissions, albeit encrypted, but it allows me to track RIDs on that TG. So, I find them very helpful, so I hope they wouldn't pull them from the downloads.
Do you think people would be going encrypted at such a exponential rate if there wasn't a website that provided all of there pri ate information for everyone to see. You guys can't see the forest from the trees here unfortunately 😕
To the OP, imagine the scenario where all encrypted channels were removed totally from database. New person comes along looking for VA state police and can’t find it so they post on here asking why VA SP isn’t on the RR DB.
I personally use programming software which allows me to skip importing encrypted channels into my programming (ProScan).
I personally use programming software which allows me to skip importing encrypted channels into my programming (ProScan).
Or how many people would submit information to the database, because it was missing.
I use ProScan also. It downloaded these frequencies that I was talking about, even though I marked not to download them.
Thanks for the information. I was not familiar with the MODE codes.The Division talkgroups for VSP are already listed as encrypted with an E on the link below.
I also check on radio reference before I program either my scanner or Unications with going to a lot of a places when I don't have local knowledge.
You really can't blame radio reference, since you didn't look before.
Virginia Statewide Agencies Radio System (STARS) Trunking System, Statewide, Virginia
Virginia Statewide Agencies Radio System (STARS) Trunking System Profilewww.radioreference.com
Thanks for the information.
Thanks for the information. That's why I am here.The Division talkgroups for VSP are already listed as encrypted with an E on the link below.
I also check on radio reference before I program either my scanner or Unications with going to a lot of a places when I don't have local knowledge.
You really can't blame radio reference, since you didn't look before.
Virginia Statewide Agencies Radio System (STARS) Trunking System, Statewide, Virginia
Virginia Statewide Agencies Radio System (STARS) Trunking System Profilewww.radioreference.com
The radio communications of most agencies are not private information. They are subject to the same scrutiny that all other government communications are. Encryption just means you need a FOIA request now and can't listen in real time. What you're complaining about is an inevitability of the internet. If RadioReference and Broadcastify didn't exist, some other site would be doing the exact same thing. And before RadioReference we had books with all the frequencies. RadioReference just democratized it. We can have a reasonable debate about whether Broadcastify makes it too easy, but for agencies with an aversion to public scrutiny encryption is going to happen no matter what. Broadcastify is a convenient excuse, but really the only reason encryption is happening now as opposed to twenty years ago is that the technology is only now becoming reasonably affordable for local and state governments to implement.
Rather than complaining about your fellow hobbyists, maybe complain to your local government and state legislators about it. They're the ones who can do something about it. The encryption cat is out of the bag. It's not going back in.
Before this thread goes too far down the "live streaming causes encryption" debate, remember that those conversations should be confined to this thread: The Official Thread: Live audio feeds, scanners, and... wait for it.. ENCRYPTION!
I went to Radio Reference for the data. The chanels affected showed D for digital. NOT DE. Also I told the scanner program to NOT download encripted chanels. They were downloaded and all I got was dead air. That was the point of my post.The Division talkgroups for VSP are already listed as encrypted with an E on the link below.
I also check on radio reference before I program either my scanner or Unications with going to a lot of a places when I don't have local knowledge.
You really can't blame radio reference, since you didn't look before.
Virginia Statewide Agencies Radio System (STARS) Trunking System, Statewide, Virginia
Virginia Statewide Agencies Radio System (STARS) Trunking System Profilewww.radioreference.com
The link you provided said it was D-digital, not E-encripted as the MODE. So, I DID look !!!The Division talkgroups for VSP are already listed as encrypted with an E on the link below.
I also check on radio reference before I program either my scanner or Unications with going to a lot of a places when I don't have local knowledge.
You really can't blame radio reference, since you didn't look before.
Virginia Statewide Agencies Radio System (STARS) Trunking System, Statewide, Virginia
Virginia Statewide Agencies Radio System (STARS) Trunking System Profilewww.radioreference.com
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