scanner for local police (SQ) in quebec
danlauz
QUEBEC knows about it.. and I cannot listen to the discussion with my
scanner. the discussions seems to be blocked ? .
is there a way to know how they work ? the new frequency ? do I need a new
scaner ?
thanks for the help, i am in drummondville quebec
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sylvain lamarre
<dan...@9bit.qc.ca> wrote:
> my local police dept has moved to the SQ (suret? du quebec) - the ones from
> QUEBEC knows about it.. and I cannot listen to the discussion with my
> scanner. the discussions seems to be blocked ? .
>
> is there a way to know how they work ? the new frequency ? do I need a new
> scaner ?
>
> thanks for the help, i am in drummondville quebec
>
>
Welcome to the club of defunct municipal police forces!
I live in Sept-Iles, prov. of Québec, and my city was among the firsts to
integrate its police force with "Sûreté du Québec" last January (2002).
I don't know for your place, but for mine it meant no more
"policiers-pompiers", they had to replace all the municipal police cars by
SQ cars (equipped with the correct radio / data equipment to integrate the
SQ radio system already in place). They (the SQ) simply "added" these new
cars / policemen to their actual force, using the SQ frequency in use in my
region, and the municipal gave their two old police/fire frequencies to our
newly created volunteer firefighters squad.
Naturally, this meant much more radio trafic on the air on the SQ frequency
here, so they made minor adjustments like creating a "bloc" just for our city
/ région (before, we were on the same "bloc" as Baie-Comeau and Havre
St-Pierre).
Some peoples (on this ng or somewhere else, i don't remember) said that in
some regions (Abitibi i think) they simply put a car repeater at the police
station and the patrol cars used the UHF channel (normally they have repeaters
in their patrol cars that relays VHF comms from the car's radio to the
officers's walkie-talkies UHF channel when they're out of the car).
Chances are that they've switched to the SQ channel in use in your region.
If that's the case, you know i'm sure that most of the SQ comms are digital
and encrypted, with data transmitted to their cars computer teminals every
now and then. They have some comms "in the clear" but to listen to these,
you'll have to have a scanner equipped with CTCSS to filter-out all the digital
comms and data bursts on the frequency. Without this feature, the channel
is simply not listenable to (we hear the same hiss than the one we hear when
the squelch is open, on a normal scanner).
And if you find that they've indeed switched to the SQ frequency and you want
a CTCSS-equipped scanner, buy a Uniden-Bearcat model SC-200: It works like
a champ to filter-out the digital traffic.
'Hope this helps a bit!
73
sylvain...@si.cgocable.ca
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