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my friend talks to me about cop radio

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Originally posted by: marvdmartian
Originally posted by: Sphexi
Unless they're completely under-funded and using 30 year old technology, police use encrypted/keyed systems that you have to have a special radio and code to be able to use. Sometimes you can pick them up on a scanner if they're using standard frequencies, but not just any "walkie-talkie" will work on those frequencies, you need to get special radios that are fairly expensive.
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Don't know about that. I live in a medium sized city (~100K population), and the police just late last year/early this year switched over to a digital system that regular scanners/scanner walkie-talkies can't listed in on. The news people were losing their minds over it, until the cops finally agreed to give them a courtesy call whenever something newsworthy was going on. :roll:
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Unless they have gone to some crazy setup, the Radio Shack Pro-96 or Pro-2096 should be all the news station would need. Now if they are transmitting the data encrypted over the digital signal, thats a different story. But most departments only use the encrypted channels for their MDT's.

 
Suuure, your friend said "car going 100!" and boom, cops randomly pulled over someone randomly... makes sense to me!

im sure after the third time when they kept pulling over random cars they didnt say, hrm we should start asking for more info or ask him why he isnt pulling these guys over
 
I think its funny that cops use all this encrypted digital radio technology...

And Air Traffic Control uses wide open VHF. There have been many incidents where people can go on any old VHF transmitter and pretend to be ATC...

There was an incident about this in Vancouver semi recently IIRC...

Not cool
 
Originally posted by: Scouzer
I think its funny that cops use all this encrypted digital radio technology...

And Air Traffic Control uses wide open VHF. There have been many incidents where people can go on any old VHF transmitter and pretend to be ATC...

There was an incident about this in Vancouver semi recently IIRC...

Not cool
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Right. Fake ATCs and we're here banning toothpaste on airplanes? Sad really.
 
BS... we have encrypted radios. Besides, even departments that dont speak in 10-code dont just speak plain english on the radio.
 
I know in S.FL they are using digital but (at least some of) it's not encrypted from a listen-perspective. My buddy has an Uniden or some such Trunk Tracker III device that can receive. Not saying other areas don't encrypt, just that it's not encrypted here, at least not for listening. Perhaps you need codes to transmit?

And yeah, Shens on the original post.



 
The best thing the OP could do now is admit his friends are pathological liars. Because if he wants to defend this impossible story, he'll have zero credibility forever.
 
If your friend really knew anything, cops don't say "cop" and that they would know if it's from a police radio or not. They can track down the radio ID, I believe, since I know we can easily do that at work. Surprised that officers even responded without a police code.
 
fire400, your mom just called she wanted me to tell you to put down the internet and go to your room....oh and to stop pretending you are a bad ass you remember what happened last time you did...you got pwned...
 
bahaha

this is the same kid who lied about his rig. had it in sig for weeks until he got busted for telling fairy tails.

sounds like much the same here. i hate liars.
 
bullsh*t

a off the shelf walkitalkie does not have the frequencies to braodcast in the 2m range. he would need a a HAM amature radio to do that.

I am a HAM and once just once i messed with the drive through at a mcdonalds. i parked in the parking lot and started talking to the young girl in the drive through. Hi, i would like a #4 combo. she doesnt see a car so says nothing. i asked again and she says "umm hello are you at the drive through?

heheh "yes i am, im driving my invisble car today so you can see me. i want at #4 please".

LOL she actually rang up the order and told me to pull around to the second window.

oh by the way, if your friend did do this have him do it a few more times. the cops will enlist the local HAM group and triangilate your dumbass friends position and sic the cops on him. local HAM clubs love and i mean love doing stuff like that.

 
Originally posted by: Citrix
bullsh*t

a off the shelf walkitalkie does not have the frequencies to braodcast in the 2m range. he would need a a HAM amature radio to do that.

I am a HAM and once just once i messed with the drive through at a mcdonalds. i parked in the parking lot and started talking to the young girl in the drive through. Hi, i would like a #4 combo. she doesnt see a car so says nothing. i asked again and she says "umm hello are you at the drive through?

heheh "yes i am, im driving my invisble car today so you can see me. i want at #4 please".

LOL she actually rang up the order and told me to pull around to the second window.
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hahahaha great

 
Originally posted by: rise
bahaha

this is the same kid who lied about his rig. had it in sig for weeks until he got busted for telling fairy tails.

sounds like much the same here. i hate liars.
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Oh, so the OP is already known for posting made-up crap?

Note to lying OP: this would be a good time to stop posting, and avoid the embarrassment of having me call you a liar every time you post, liar.
 
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