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Old October 3rd 04, 05:23 AM
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Default Local police method of defeating scanners ?

Hey all.

A small town local to me does something that I think is meant to
discourage eavesdropping on their public communications.

When their system is not in use for broadcast, the system 'keys-up'
about every 2 seconds, as if someone was sitting somewhere pushing the
PTT button on their radio.

This, of course, makes monitoring a pain because the scanner stops
every time it hits the active frequency.

Has anyone else here heard of anything like this? If so, is there any
feasible way of "getting around it"?

Coceivably, I can see in my mind how defeating this nuisance could be
accomplished using some pretty sophisticated design in a scanner, but
I dont know if this has been addressed yet.

FOr now, I'm just gonna have to skip listening to Billy-Bob and Festus
down by the grain elevator.

Thanks!