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"Command channels" are typically repeated and monitored by a dispatcher at the dispatch center. On the command channel, a dispatcher is usually logging incident activity and taking / responding to requests for resources and coordinating responses from further out units so repeater or remot...

Oops… I meant 460.2625

I've never heard encrypted P25 traffic on CH3 and ALL the traffic I have heard on CH 7 is encrypted. I have not heard a single analog transmission on CH 7 since they cut over to P25. LA IMPACT uses a channel 12.5 kHz away (460.4625) for some of their stuff in the I.E. so it could be their analog tra...

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I always thought that car to car was a channel the officers used after they got a call to talk about it en route. Generally, I say it IS private (to some extent) because it doesn't use up the dispatch channel and only those two officers who have switched channels know what they said. Unless of cour...

"Good call except that not everyone is a criminal and so us hobbyists would like to hear full details. Car-to-car comms are private" Well of course not everyone is a criminal, but the problem is if the hobbyists have access to the information, the criminals do too. It's a fine balance for ...

I suppose my point is what do they think they are protecting with this restriction in the law enforcement context? Law enforcement can be compromised just as much by broadcasting a dispatch channel as a "tactical" or car to car one and probably even more likely so. People's personal inform...

That's "Local West" on Strawberry, Heaps, Keller and Onyx I think. It's Highland / Yucaipa fire dispatch and used to be fire dispatch for the entire southern portion of San Bernardino County when they contracted with CDF.

The Radio Reference rule doesn't seem to make much sense to me. It's the main dispatch channels that the burglars and bank robbers would want to listen to in order to hear if the police are on their way. Who cares about streaming a car to car or tactical channel? If it's a tactical situation the guy...