What state is the best for scanners?

[jparks29]

Which state has the least encryption, and the fewest radio systems or the simplest radio systems?

Just curious.

It would seem like some states with a state-wide system that nearly every local, county, and state agency are on, might take the cake - but a lot of those systems use encryption quite a bit.

Other states may have a different system for the state, each county and each city might have their own.... But mostly analog and only 1-2 conventional frequencies...


So, what's your vote for the 'best state' for scanning?

 

[RaleighGuy]

So, what's your vote for the 'best state' for scanning?

That is a really loaded question no one I know of can really answer, I don't know anyone who has lived in or monitored all states all areas.

Also, the amount of encryption doesn't automatically make it a bad area to monitor traffic, what if one only listens to aircraft, there may be great air traffic monitoring in an area but encrypted everything else, they wouldn't care. Or, if one only listens to PD, which is encrypted, but tons of other unencrypted traffic, they'd say it's terrible.

 

[wv9m]

All roads lead to Rome... Every state, county, municipality or industry has interesting events and radio traffic. I didn't move to my current location just for the radio ops and traffic. Plenty of interesting radio chatter to be found everywhere depending on your interests.

In general, large metro areas most often use public safety encryption for good reason. Broadcastify provides some good chatter across the US.

 

[steve9570]

Not much here in Mass yet. A lot of P25e though. My town went P25e a few weeks ago so I need to get my G5 reprogrammed. Plus my 1040. Rumer is Boston PD my be going encryption at some point.

Steve

 

[ecps92]

Which state has the least encryption, and the fewest radio systems or the simplest radio systems?

Just curious.

It would seem like some states with a state-wide system that nearly every local, county, and state agency are on, might take the cake - but a lot of those systems use encryption quite a bit.

Other states may have a different system for the state, each county and each city might have their own.... But mostly analog and only 1-2 conventional frequencies...


So, what's your vote for the 'best state' for scanning?

That would be Warlocks Net on 66.6666

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Which state has the least encryption, and the fewest radio systems

Fewest radio systems...if you were only to go by trunked radio systems identified in the RRDB (and all of LMR, not just public safety) that honor would go to Rhode Island. Delaware has fewer counties but 10 more identified TRSes than RI (I might be partly to blame for that )

 

[Trad77]

Which state has the least encryption, and the fewest radio systems or the simplest radio systems?

Just curious.

It would seem like some states with a state-wide system that nearly every local, county, and state agency are on, might take the cake - but a lot of those systems use encryption quite a bit.

Other states may have a different system for the state, each county and each city might have their own.... But mostly analog and only 1-2 conventional frequencies...


So, what's your vote for the 'best state' for scanning?

Wyoming does not encrypt anything. They can... but never do.

 

[nd5y]

Which state has the least encryption, and the fewest radio systems or the simplest radio systems?

That will vary in different areas even in the same state.
Some rural areas might have only a few repeaters, no trunking and no encryption.

 

[buddrousa]

The one that you can hear what you are interested in listening to.

 

[merlin]

The state of confusion is the best. I scan everything from 33 MHz to 950 MHz and have provisions to go up to 20 GHz.
I have a decent set up for SWLing from 630 meters through 6 meters.
Tons of digital modes.
So much to monitor, I won't do it all in the rest of my lifetime.
I still get some 40 talkgroups in my ICAWIN system, some are going encrypted. Supposed to have gone phase2 a couple years ago, not yet.
That will mean a newer radio, scanner, and $$

 

[BinaryMode]

Wyoming does not encrypt anything. They can... but never do.

This is true. I would have also said North Dakota, but they are implementing a new system which I'm sure you're aware of. I mean, encrypting the fire department?!

 

[scannersnstuff]

New Jersey was great. Then most pd's went encrypted not a huge pd monitor anyway,after doing it for a living.
. Retirement-West Central Florida. a huge amount of encryption and P2.

 

[chrismol1]

fewest encryption, simple systems? vermont comes to mind. Pretty much all PD is conventional UHF and they have nice state wide mutual aid interoperability for PD, Fire, EMS with use of V & U TAC freqs.
VCOMM | Radio Technology Services An agency only needs standard VHF & UHF programming to do anything thruout the state. IC can setup a repeater by DTMF from a multitude of repeaters throughout the state and contact a PSAP.
The state police is 2 Troops with quite a few re-use of frequencies, each barracks has multicast coverage
Their entire state DOT is covered by same 2 frequencies with different PL for each site
The fish & wildlife is 1 freq with a PL for each mountain repeater
Plus the state being many mountains, most of the repeaters are on mountains so there is vast coverage

 

[mike619]

That would depend on what you want to listen to and the systems being used in any given area an example if you like to listen to public works like trash trucks or road crews or your state DOT like Caltrans in California in a city or county they are mostly in the clear in a lot of places.