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<blockquote data-quote="JR777" data-source="post: 4272414" data-attributes="member: 45725">Most of the police traffic isn&#039;t encrypted, but they&#039;ve mostly all switched to bands well outside the amateur range. Like around 900mhz. They do also have encrypted &quot;tactical&quot; channels they switch to whenever something juicy is going on.I believe the FCC made Baofeng lock their radios to the amateur bands, so if I remember right you now have to unlock them to get GMRS, FRS, and MURS. The GMRS repeaters have quite a bit of traffic. Some of them use tones so you may or may not hear your local GMRS repeaters if you just auto load them onto the radio using CHIRP. Some are also private, as in you have to pay to get the info.Then the HAM repeaters is where you&#039;re going to hear the most. You have to program them though. You have to know what the transmit and receive frequencies are as well as the tones, which will all be public information, but you still have to program them into your radio.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JR777, post: 4272414, member: 45725"] Most of the police traffic isn't encrypted, but they've mostly all switched to bands well outside the amateur range. Like around 900mhz. They do also have encrypted "tactical" channels they switch to whenever something juicy is going on. I believe the FCC made Baofeng lock their radios to the amateur bands, so if I remember right you now have to unlock them to get GMRS, FRS, and MURS. The GMRS repeaters have quite a bit of traffic. Some of them use tones so you may or may not hear your local GMRS repeaters if you just auto load them onto the radio using CHIRP. Some are also private, as in you have to pay to get the info. Then the HAM repeaters is where you're going to hear the most. You have to program them though. You have to know what the transmit and receive frequencies are as well as the tones, which will all be public information, but you still have to program them into your radio. [/QUOTE]

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