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Police Radio?
Posted by:
EPacciano
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Date: May 01, 2017 03:53AM
How many people listen to the police radio on a daily?...I do it's entertaining listening to people call the police on kids because the are outside playing making too much noise. Probably some petty old white couple
Re: Police Radio?
Posted by:
Fireman Bill
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Date: May 01, 2017 05:24AM
Fire calls more than police.
But i thought most police channels were encrypted or something...
But i thought most police channels were encrypted or something...
Re: Police Radio?
Posted by:
Gruntled
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Date: May 01, 2017 07:02AM
Fireman Bill Wrote:
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> Fire calls more than police.
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> But i thought most police channels were encrypted
> or something...
Some of them are. All of Fairfax County's police are on a trunked system, so you need a scanner such as the Home Patrol to follow them. There are other scanners, but the Home Patrol II is the one that came to mind because I have one. I believe Fairfax County is using an APCO P25 system.
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> Fire calls more than police.
>
> But i thought most police channels were encrypted
> or something...
Some of them are. All of Fairfax County's police are on a trunked system, so you need a scanner such as the Home Patrol to follow them. There are other scanners, but the Home Patrol II is the one that came to mind because I have one. I believe Fairfax County is using an APCO P25 system.
Re: Police Radio?
Posted by:
Ragman
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Date: May 01, 2017 12:46PM
I listen to police scanner occasionally at night with ear buds. Best times are late Friday and Saturday night, Loudoun County sheriff uses the Motorola X2-TDMA protocol which only the latest scanners can do. I have the Uniden BCD436 portable scanner which can decode Motorola X2-TDMA.
Interesting things heard this past weekend: (The dispatcher radios to the police what the caller told him)
-Woman called police because brother-in-law was barricaded in his house threating to harm/kill himself after a week long drinking binge. According to the woman calling, the brother-in-law was screaming.. "I'm done here!", over and over again. Not know if there were firearms in the house. Happened in Loudoun County somewhere.
-Police in Fairfax on the lookout for two men putting a very drunk almost passed out woman in the back of their car off Backlick road somewhere. Caller thinks the woman did not know the men (how the caller knew this beyond me) Caller gave description of the car (forget myself what it was) and thinks they were heading towards 95.
-Caller called about a group of kids wandering around some cemetery in Loudoun county late at night on Friday. Caller turned on his high beams on them and the kids scatters like cockroaches. Caller could only identify one kid by stating he was wearing a red backpack.
-Caller called about some car hitting his car that was parked on the street and causing significant damage. The car drove away before the caller could get a good description of it. Caller thinks it was a car leaving a big party up a hill from his house. (Not sure where this was, I was almost asleep by this point)
-A few folks being pulled over for speeding and other infractions, license checks done with the dispatcher.
Interesting things heard this past weekend: (The dispatcher radios to the police what the caller told him)
-Woman called police because brother-in-law was barricaded in his house threating to harm/kill himself after a week long drinking binge. According to the woman calling, the brother-in-law was screaming.. "I'm done here!", over and over again. Not know if there were firearms in the house. Happened in Loudoun County somewhere.
-Police in Fairfax on the lookout for two men putting a very drunk almost passed out woman in the back of their car off Backlick road somewhere. Caller thinks the woman did not know the men (how the caller knew this beyond me) Caller gave description of the car (forget myself what it was) and thinks they were heading towards 95.
-Caller called about a group of kids wandering around some cemetery in Loudoun county late at night on Friday. Caller turned on his high beams on them and the kids scatters like cockroaches. Caller could only identify one kid by stating he was wearing a red backpack.
-Caller called about some car hitting his car that was parked on the street and causing significant damage. The car drove away before the caller could get a good description of it. Caller thinks it was a car leaving a big party up a hill from his house. (Not sure where this was, I was almost asleep by this point)
-A few folks being pulled over for speeding and other infractions, license checks done with the dispatcher.