LEO question - Radio related

[SgtTackleberry]

Hate to burst your bubble, but systems are designed to only have authorized users and no one rogue and anyways most networks are 700/800MHz "trunking". Which those Chinese radios WILL NOT do. As an administrator, we have tools to monitor suspicious activity 24/7/365 and can have an automatic over-the-air "KILL" command to brick radios, making them paperweight and those specific radios are expensive.

There may be ham radio operators associated with your local EOC that may have mutual aid capacities but very seldom they have radios issued to them so they can talk to a police or fire dispatcher.

Check out www.radioreference.com, they have a slew of information in the field of radio communications.

Hope this helps.

 

[Rush Je3p]

you might be SOL, alot of the leo and fire even have gone to an 800 digital system and you can listen but to transmit you have to have a security code added to the system , when i was with the fire dept in NC our county both police and fire used the 800 digital .....the motorola radio i bought from a friend was over $100 before programming and getting authorization to transmit on the county system.

 

[republican]

How about CB ? Does anyone monitor the emergency channel ?

 

[mfoster]

Just pile them up,they will call for you.

 

[Freshly Minted Georgian!]

Just pile them up,they will call for you.

Sort of what I was hoping to avoid. If phones don't work I figured they might want a heads up that Antifa/NFAC was massing and about to run face first into many bullets. Oh well, I at least tried to figure out a way!

 

[banjo_0]

Pretty decent primers here on communications:

 

[Freshly Minted Georgian!]

Watched the first one already, it was super helpful.....thanks

 

[Hayata]

There's ways to get around anything.

Get to know your local station.

Bring them doughnuts every Friday. And balloons. And anything else you can think of. Ask the secretary when the birthdays are coming up. Give the bday boy or girl a knife or something from walmart.

You'll be that local nut that left a radio with them. Do comm checks on a regular basis to find out what kind of doughnuts they want that week. Embed yourself in that station. Do volunteer work with them if they ever have a function.

If shtf and they are still together they will respond when you call. But it's not going to be easy and it's not going to be cheap to establish that local relationship!

 

[Alxprst]

https://www.radioreference.com/ might have what your locals use.

 

[dawgs511]

I’m sorry but I don’t think that is going to happen. As mentioned above, our radios are typically encrypted for the purposes of keeping non-public safety personnel from interfering with the channels.