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Radio Silence Shuts Out Scanner Listeners: Visalia Police Encrypt All Channels For scanner radio enthusiasts in Visalia, California, the days of tuning into the pulse of local law enforcement are over. As of March 20, 2025, the Visalia Police Department (VPD) has fully encrypted its radio transmissions, effectively silencing the real-time chatter that hobbyists, watchdog…
Goodbye, Scanner. Austin Police, Fire, EMS will Stop Making Messages Available to Public Public safety agencies in Austin — police, fire and EMS — will soon go radio silent to the public after they switch to an encrypted radio system. This means that the current publicly available scanner information, which residents can use to listen…
The Los Angeles City Fire Department debuted the first robotic firefighting vehicle in the United States, putting it to use on its first day in service. The Thermite RS3 (manfactured by Textron: Howe & Howe Technologies) is a compact, low-center of gravity, wide chassis, industrial robotic firefighting vehicle. It is capable of flowing 2,500 gallons…
SCMA member Glen Rothstein (LA-145, KK6OTP) was kind enough to provide his photographs of HAMCON 2015. HAMCON (also known as the ARRL Southwestern Division Convention) was held this year on September 11-13th in the City Of Torrance. The convention featured displays from equipment vendors, tech talks, demonstrations, VE testing, T-hunting (radio direction finding) and much more. To…
The Redondo Beach Police and Fire Departments will be having their annual open house this Sunday, October 4, 2015. The event will be at the Redondo Beach Civic Center from 10 am until 3 pm. Members of the public can shoot a handgun at a video simulator which simulates sudden occurrences in which a police officer…
From where James Crockman sits, New York City is a nonstop flurry of fires, murders and mayhem. Mr. Crockman, 52, is the weekend overnight man at Breaking News Network, a service that culls news reports from fire and police radios and sends them as alerts to news media outlets and other subscribers. A former warehouse…