Vancouver BC
Damn ge/edacs.
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 09:05:13 GMT, "bluddihun" wrote:
I'm trying to monitor the Ge/Edacs digital trunked radio dispatch system
in
use by a local pd but to no avail. I hate to consider this a possibility,
but is it the case that there is simply NO WAY to monitor digital trunked
radio?
What area? Your IP is showing Shaw in Alberta??
MA/COM (x-ComNet/x-Ericsson/GE) EDACS can take the form of:
1) Older AEGIS digital - NO longer supported
2) Newer "Provoice" digital is IMBE vocoder same as P25
Unfortunately the digital EDACS systems at this time are STILL
UNMONITORABLE
even if they are in the clear (not encrypted).
Uniden & GRE could easily add ProVoice with a little work on their present
P25
setup's, but seem to be reluctant to support them.
AEGIS will NEVER be supported, and neither is support for the proprietary
OpenSky IP based digital format likely to come to a scanner.
EDACS systems can also employ a simple XOR'd "encryption" ala EDACS
Security Key
(ESK) to the control channel so that scanner can not even decode the
control
channel. ETrunker has a version that can at least see the activity even
with
this simple "encryption."
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