On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:45:38 -0600, in
, Charles Duncan wrote:

I'm about to purchase a Uniden digital scanner but I understand some police
and fire departments can block their calls from being received on a digital
scanner. Anyone know if this is true? How can you get around that?

Encryption is present on some channels of the department I work for. Mostly
just the channels the narcotics folks use but I'm sure it'd be just a simple
programming job to place that on other channels.

I do know that we're able to switch the dispatch part of the channel over to
digital which stops folks from hearing us on a scanner (at least until the
EDACS ones come out). I used it last night when some officers were going up
to a house to look for a homicide suspect. I didn't want to chance they
might have a scanner in their house and hear me dispatch officers to their
address.

Dave
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