Expanding South

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Re: Expanding South

Post by Farsouthscanner » Tue May 31, 2016 1:18 pm

I am not getting any encryption noise. Maybe someone pressed the wrong button.

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Re: Expanding South

Post by CodeOne » Tue May 31, 2016 1:19 pm

All Gone Now........Wentworth,Dareton,Broken Hill. :cry:

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Re: Expanding South

Post by cartman » Tue May 31, 2016 1:33 pm

Around about 1211hrs I heard via the RR broadcast feed a couple of cars attending jobs or coming back on still in the clear, VKG (clear) answering a radio test, a few encryption squiggles and then was that ... it went very quiet on the feed
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Re: Expanding South

Post by Farsouthscanner » Tue May 31, 2016 1:43 pm

Heard the same.
Would it be that if VKG enables encryption at their end the Uniden 996 doesn't squark the encryption noise for a second therefore you only get silence.

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Re: Expanding South

Post by Bigfella237 » Tue May 31, 2016 1:50 pm

That happens on the receiving end, all radios and most scanners nowadays mute the audio instead of letting the squiggles out, I think the last scanner I had that didn't mute encrypted audio would've been a 796D.

You can force a radio to unmute by loading up a key with the correct KID but with the wrong variable, the radio thinks it has the correct key and unmutes.

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Re: Expanding South

Post by Farsouthscanner » Tue May 31, 2016 1:56 pm

Yeah thought so.
I might have broken the stream.
A few minutes after the encryption started I remoted into the server to stop the Windows media encoder stream.
I just logged back in and am getting screen corruption so I think the sound card drivers weren't happy. This would affect the one on RR too.
I am going to rebuild that server in the near future.
Anyone listening on a physical scanner? Are there still many cars in the clear, is VKG still in the clear?

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Re: Expanding South

Post by Farsouthscanner » Tue May 31, 2016 2:01 pm

Disregard my last post. I heard a bit of encryption just then

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Re: Expanding South

Post by cartman » Tue May 31, 2016 2:03 pm

Bigfella237 wrote:That happens on the receiving end, all radios and most scanners nowadays mute the audio instead of letting the squiggles out, I think the last scanner I had that didn't mute encrypted audio would've been a 796D.

You can force a radio to unmute by loading up a key with the correct KID but with the wrong variable, the radio thinks it has the correct key and unmutes.

Andrew
I have a Uniden 796 scanner with a discriminator tap fitted - its squawks its head off with squiggle noises
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Re: Expanding South

Post by Longreach » Tue May 31, 2016 4:14 pm

The early GRE stuff did the same. Wasnt till the 800's that encryption was muted or skipped.
Was a fairly smooth changeover here one minute gone the next.
Cant wait to see all the cheap digital scanners appear on ebay cos theres nothing else to listen to.
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Re: Expanding South

Post by Farsouthscanner » Tue May 31, 2016 5:56 pm

Now that I am home I can see why the stream went completely quiet for most of the time.
On my other Uniden 996, the other day when Far South 704 was encrypted I got the normal second squawk then silence with ENC on the display. Now all I get is silence with ENC displayed.
On my HP portable I get the second or so squawk.
Anyway, I have been scanning for 15 years and I still remember the one of the first if not the first call sign. It was Shoalhaven 17. The first local call sign was Eden 26.
One of the last I heard now was Merimbula 25. Fun times and great memories.

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