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 ...

[Harrison Sand] just finished a guide on how to use SDR to listen in on Police and Fire radio bands. The project, which results in the crystal clear audio reception heard after the break ...

The York County Chiefs of Police Association discussed with York County making the police calls private to protect the personal information that was broadcast over the radio, said Ted Czech ...

The times of listening to police scanners in York County have come to ... to hear certain first responder calls though. “Fire and EMS calls are not encrypted and there are no plans to encrypt ...