A big thumbs up. Ed! Said very well. Don

Agreed. 73, and 88, ve3myr. Murray K, Ottawa. Sent from Mail for Windows 10

I have been a radio hobbyist since the 1970’s. Started listening to scanners back in the old crystal days. I have seen the introduction of voice inversion systems followed by the Motorola DVP

Good idea. As my Dear Old Dad would say: "no sense in crying about it until it happens". HF is a real wonder land of adventure, especially if one has earned a FCC Amateur Radio

I think some just don’t understand the whole encryption process Most newer systems rekey over the air. Which means a radio has to authenticate with the system , be part of a crypto net to get the

I feel the same had many good years of listening. You know, I could listen to anything in those days, and I just listened for enjoyment and my interest in communications. Didn't divulge anything, did

There was an episode on “Adam 12” where the bad guys used to tune into Police Comms… and naturally the Dukes of hazard… of course I’m making light of the situation… when the

Agreed.

Agreed, some places like in North Dakota, and some places down south go as far as encrypting public works and parks and rec. I noticed that in a lot of areas around Chicago they’ve encrypted, but

In Houston back in the 70s and 80s we had several cases of crooks using scanners but they were caught because they didn't' know the lingo and the simplex frequencies being used. This was in the

One story for you: These California police officers were charged with brutalizing loved ones. So why are so many still carrying a gun? ....and that's just California. These California police officers

i spent nearly 30-yrs working in and managing a large consolidated 9-1-1 center in suburban chicago. can't recall any incidents in which the bad guys used a scanner to evade police. the criminals

got a source you can cite, joe? Rich via iPad

I love our EDACS system and will be sad to see it go, it has been a workhorse, extremely reliable. We have XL-200 portables and will go P25 eventually. Ed KG5UN Abilene, TX

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one or possibly two come to mind. certainly not hundreds. and a police officer convicted of a crime will no longer be a police officer. ‘73 rich

Just a personal thought. After spending many years in communications, security and such, I am convinced that there are some things that the general public has absolutely no need to know! Just my 2

Except that many of them WERE caught by the public complaining about their actions, and many of those were heard via scanners. Just sayin'. Agreed there only a few bad apples by percentage

EDACS was a proprietary format of GE (later acquired by Ericsson then Harris) (not Johnson). It became unsupported shortly after Harris bought the company. It was old, unsupported, and not

And that's the whole point of getting enough people to agree with you and vote for people/laws that you all agree with. If it's an important issue for you, write letters to the editor of a local