Digital Has Finally Happened
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Digital Has Finally Happened
ok guys time is 1300 th 26-04-06 all mirrabooka cars have gone to ch 9 468.050 and guess what its true digital and they have moved a whole district ch to 9 fuck knows whats going on
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Channel 9 is normal FM audio - not digital. They probably had a repeater die somewhere and fired up 9 as a stop-gap.frankstowing wrote:ok guys time is 1300 th 26-04-06 all mirrabooka cars have gone to ch 9 468.050 and guess what its true digital and they have moved a whole district ch to 9 fuck knows whats going on
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Change to that - they're doing some testing on channel 21.Fastlane wrote:Channel 9 is normal FM audio - not digital. They probably had a repeater die somewhere and fired up 9 as a stop-gap.frankstowing wrote:ok guys time is 1300 th 26-04-06 all mirrabooka cars have gone to ch 9 468.050 and guess what its true digital and they have moved a whole district ch to 9 fuck knows whats going on
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Remembering that the Police rely on ppl listening to scanners and such to help them out, ppl such as media towies....would they honestly encrypt it?
Like i remeber one time when someone suggested gagging all imformation about a incedent i was helping out at, and a top ranking officer shouted a "hell no!!!!! that would be one of the worst things we could ever do". They tried it once on a alledged rape i think it was and the media snobbed them off for like 6 months. the Police found it very difficult to do anything without thier help.
The Police rely on the media as a ultimate resource, if they need imformation, a public appeal, something that they need the media for. To remove such a vital part of thier coexistance would no doubt cause unecessary strain on a already fragile relationship, Granted the media outlets will just go buy a digital scanner but if its encryted and all police radios fall silent one can only presume caos...well thats what i thnk.
Like i remeber one time when someone suggested gagging all imformation about a incedent i was helping out at, and a top ranking officer shouted a "hell no!!!!! that would be one of the worst things we could ever do". They tried it once on a alledged rape i think it was and the media snobbed them off for like 6 months. the Police found it very difficult to do anything without thier help.
The Police rely on the media as a ultimate resource, if they need imformation, a public appeal, something that they need the media for. To remove such a vital part of thier coexistance would no doubt cause unecessary strain on a already fragile relationship, Granted the media outlets will just go buy a digital scanner but if its encryted and all police radios fall silent one can only presume caos...well thats what i thnk.
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Perhaps so... but many other states have already gone down the digital route.Antt wrote: The Police rely on the media as a ultimate resource, if they need imformation, a public appeal, something that they need the media for. To remove such a vital part of thier coexistance would no doubt cause unecessary strain on a already fragile relationship, Granted the media outlets will just go buy a digital scanner but if its encryted and all police radios fall silent one can only presume caos...well thats what i thnk.
It means the media have to get all their info filtered through police. If they don't tell the media something happened, and the media don't get any reports from eye witnesses, then it stays out of the news...
That said, I'm quite happy if preventing nasty people access to police comms receive prevents them from planning nasty things!
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short for 'People'doogues71 wrote:WHAT'S PPL?
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Not likely. Why would the government pay tens of millions of dollars on an encrypted digital radio system for the WA police if someone could listen into it with a few thousand dollars' worth of equipment?Jmmw wrote:there will be ways around the encryption though? surely?
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Think about Microsoft and all the millions of dollars poured into developing software that nowadays is freely available to anyone at no cost due to P2P clients and ever-increasing internet connection speeds.Not likely. Why would the government pay tens of millions of dollars on an encrypted digital radio system for the WA police if someone could listen into it with a few thousand dollars' worth of equipment?
I think the fact that the media won't be able to hear information over a scanner could be just the motive for them to want to infiltrate the system perhaps..
Only time will tell I suppose, this might be what makes me explore other things to listen to on the scanner like aviation and marine perhaps.. oh the excitement..