On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:39:01 -0400, Mark wrote:

I don't see why they bother to manually switch back to non encrypted. Just
leave it there. Why are they actually making an effort to NOT encrypt?

Encryption usually decreases battery life by about 1/3.

On an XTS5000 running full time encryption and moderately heavy use,
it takes 3 batteries to get through a shift.

Steve


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Steve Uhrig wrote:

Encryption usually decreases battery life by about 1/3.

On an XTS5000 running full time encryption and moderately heavy use,
it takes 3 batteries to get through a shift.

This is interesting; all this encryption stuff is relatively new to
me, but I did not yet notice this. So I will have to make some
measurements of the power consumption.



regards - Ralph

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"Steve Uhrig" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:39:01 -0400, Mark wrote:

I don't see why they bother to manually switch back to non encrypted.
Just
leave it there. Why are they actually making an effort to NOT encrypt?

Encryption usually decreases battery life by about 1/3.

On an XTS5000 running full time encryption and moderately heavy use,
it takes 3 batteries to get through a shift.

Steve


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Steve Uhrig, SWS Security, Maryland (USA)
Mfrs of electronic surveillance equip
website http://www.swssec.com
tel +1+410-879-4035, fax +1+410-836-1190
"In God we trust, all others we monitor"
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Wow, that would explain it! Thanks Steve.

Bill Crocker

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 09:01:49 -0400, "Bill Crocker"
wrote:


"Steve Uhrig" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:39:01 -0400, Mark wrote:

I don't see why they bother to manually switch back to non encrypted.
Just
leave it there. Why are they actually making an effort to NOT encrypt?

Encryption usually decreases battery life by about 1/3.

On an XTS5000 running full time encryption and moderately heavy use,
it takes 3 batteries to get through a shift.




Also, on some systems, the use of encryption decreases range and hurts
the received audio quality.

Ish

I also listen to the Michigan State Police (on my Pro 96 in Grand
Rapids MI). I've noticed that they still give out a lot of info in
the clear (a drug dealer's cell phone number, a DEA agent's phone
number, et cetera). There is ONE guy, though, who encrypts EVERY Tx he
makes. Based on the things said to him by others before and after he
Tx's, this guy has a seriously inflated sense of his own importance -
near as I can tell, nothing he says is too out of the ordinary, and the
other parts of his conversation (the other troops) are unencrypted
anyway. The noise those encrypted Tx's make would be enough to make me
give up scanning if a lot of the troops used it!