While working as a police officer with a hobby as a ham radio operator and scanner buff, I listened to narcotics officers from another department. I recognized the voices of the officers when they gave explicit information concerning an alleged drug dealer. I saw one of the narcs at the courthouse and mentioned to him that I had heard his radio traffic and most likely many others had heard it. The next day when I started my shift I was called into the chief's office. He told me that he had received a complaint from the narc that I had been listening to. He told my chief that I shouldn't ne listening on his secret channel. I laughed and told the chief that I would be right back with some information. I returned with my Betty Bearcat frequency book which showed many frequencies used by police in our state. I underlined the frequency that I heard the narcs using. He shook his head and told me that many people in law enforcement aren't that bright. Several years later I went to work for another police department and the narc that complained about their secret channel was now my chief of police.
LOL! Many people don't realize how easy it is to monitor radio traffic. I grew up in Germany where the police band is (or was back then) just below the FM radio scale around 85 MHz. As a kid I figured out that you can easily tweak old tube radios to receive that band by slightly altering variable capacitors in the tuning circuit. 😀
I bought the Log periodic from dpdproductions.com/ over 20 years ago. Been out in the NV desert climate ever since, and still good as new. I don't see it on his web site any more, but I am sure Dave would build you one if you asked. 😀
If you have something to say and need a secure connection you'll have one. Why provide and expensive radio to someone picking up trash or sweeping the floor? Anyone outside the area isn't going to understand what's going on. I don't think anyone is going to hear words like Ray-gun, Flying saucer or Aliens. Doing pretty good for a little setup. Imagine what surveillance equipment the Chinese in the area are using. Oh the chinese are there alright.
What a fun hobby! This is something we old guys can do for many years. I have no doubt that military intelligence monitors your activities. If they were smart, they would give you a medal (instead of hassling you) for showing the extent of civilian technology to monitor their communications. That is a valuable thing to know. Keep up the good work. PS. I am still using my Radio Shack P97 mainly because it still works well with the RH77CA antenna you recommended. lol
LOL! Well, I'm not showing "them" everything I can do. 😀 Those old scanners with mil air still work great around here. What a lot of people don't realize is how important a good antenna is. On that note: There are actually inferior chinese knock-offs of the Diamond antenna that are virtually indistinguishable from the real deal. Anyone in the market, buy from a reputable source.
Thank you. I am working on a video about mobile scanning at the Powerlines Overlook, but that focuses more on the location. I'll add the mobile setup to my list of future videos. 😀
Thanks! Yes, I hear quite often that they have to fall back to transmitting "in the clear" due to issues with secure comms like Have Quick and what is referred to as "Tango Mike" in missions. I believe the latter to be air-ground comms transmitted with the telemetry data stream.
Can you detect a source that is frequency hopping? Apparenlty the F22 has a radar that can light up a target using time slices of different frequencies such that the duration of each frequency is not active long enough for the target to detect that it's being painted.
That depends on a number of variables. Most notably how close I am to the transmitter and the length of the time slices. If they are long enough the counter will just display the frequencies in sequence. If the slices are too short it may not be able to accurately show the individual frequencies. In that case I would use a fast SDR and spectrum analyzer software with the "peak hold" function (SDR#). Over time I would see a number of peaks, each representing one of the frequencies. Or the SDRUno software that finds new frequencies. That is how I found all the frequencies used by the Have Quick system. Which operates very similar to what you describe, with about 20 discrete frequencies and time slices. The weakness of Have Quick is that it depends on precisely synchronized timing. It often fails during Red Flag and they have to fall back to clear channels. You can find the Have Quick frequencies in my scanner list at: www.dreamlandresort.com/info/scanner.html
Most scanners also have VHF and UHF to be able to receive police and fire calls too. Some of them even have the ability to demodulate digital signals if the signal isn’t encrypted in such a way that it is scrambled.
Several of my scanners and software programs have that ability. Where it gets tricky is when you are dealing with encrypted systems, like the 380 MHz trunking system use by security. That is a bit harder to monitor. 😀
Just found your channel tonight. Thanks for sharing your expertise. Like you I am very much interested in receiving radio signals from everywhere. Good luck in your efforts against the federal US government. This will not be an easy battle for you. But I do wish you luck
Unfortunately not at the moment. Our internet in Rachel does not have enough bandwidth. If they ever run fiber lines all the way I will look into that.
Nice video. Ive subbed. Im in UK and close to Lakenheath Mildenhall and Marham. I monitor those bases and others out over the North Sea with a selection of Airspy R2s an Airspy Mini and several scanners that I have aquired over the years. Like you my oldest is the trusty Yupi 7100. I have 3 hand held bearcats with alpha tagging and an AOR 3000A. I use SDR# with The Wraiths fast scanner audio recorder and freq manager plug ins. I split the UHF band into 3 for the R2s and do the whole band with the mini to catch other stuff when the R2s are recording. The fast scanner plug in by The Wraith with SDR# is amazing software (I see you have a copy) It is much faster than the SDR play you use. One Airspy R2 alone can do 225MHz to 400 MHz in less than 2 secs. You can also display the freq it stops on on the spectrum display using that version of the freq manager. Looking forward to more videos I would love to spend a week there for a red flag.
I just subscribed i love what u are doing i am basically doing the same thing i have a bcd536hp a sds100 and several RTL-SDR dongels dsdplus is my go to for finding new frequencies. one small question though on your sds200 what software do you use to program it? Thanks
I use Uniden's BCDx36HP Sentinel to program the SDS200. Works very well and also allows firmware updates. For the scanner itself I bought the NXDN upgrade option. Very happy with that as well.
@@Dreamland-Resort Ok cool i use sentinel as well i also use proscan, proscan gives you soo much more freedom when it comes to programmng. I to have the NXDN upgrades as well as the DMR . They are really good scanners the only issue i have found with them is they seem to scan slower than some of the other scanners on the market.
Area 51 security does. A lot of missions are in the clear, but all you get is fly to point X, execute card Y etc. If you don't know where point X is, or what card Y calls for, its very hard to figure out what they are doing.
@Dreamland-Resort it's digital and mostly encrypted. Anything that's military or government or police is p25vnow. It's a cellular world wide range 2 way radio. Also sends pictures and text. If it's not on p25, it's not worth listening to half the time. I suggest u study on it and get a key for your radio dongle bc its a whole new world I promise you
They do. They had a chance to study my equipment when FBI and OSI raided my home two years ago and stole over $25k worth of electronics: www.area51fbiraid.com/
Well, just like Area 51 I cannot talk about everything I do. Not because it is illegal, but because I don't want the "other side" to know what I can do. 😀
@@Dreamland-Resort If the 'other side' isn't aware of the likelihood their comms are easily monitored by foreign interests perhaps the secretary of defense should consider some 'changes' maybe?
It would be interesting to see the cancer rates of longterm residents out that way because all of that where you're living, Joerg, is coated in plutonium, cesium and who knows what else. You guys are breathing it in and eating it all the time.
While working as a police officer with a hobby as a ham radio operator and scanner buff, I listened to narcotics officers from another department. I recognized the voices of the officers when they gave explicit information concerning an alleged drug dealer. I saw one of the narcs at the courthouse and mentioned to him that I had heard his radio traffic and most likely many others had heard it. The next day when I started my shift I was called into the chief's office. He told me that he had received a complaint from the narc that I had been listening to. He told my chief that I shouldn't ne listening on his secret channel. I laughed and told the chief that I would be right back with some information. I returned with my Betty Bearcat frequency book which showed many frequencies used by police in our state. I underlined the frequency that I heard the narcs using. He shook his head and told me that many people in law enforcement aren't that bright. Several years later I went to work for another police department and the narc that complained about their secret channel was now my chief of police.
LOL! Many people don't realize how easy it is to monitor radio traffic. I grew up in Germany where the police band is (or was back then) just below the FM radio scale around 85 MHz. As a kid I figured out that you can easily tweak old tube radios to receive that band by slightly altering variable capacitors in the tuning circuit. 😀
Secret channel was not as secret as they think😅
Air Force here, love it man. I listen to my own traffic myself always fun.
Pretty good video…
Keep Scanning
That UHF log periodic looks super nice.
I'm surprised they are not encrypting their DMR channels.
@@Hiram8866 that was exactly my taught, when i heard it for the first time 🤣
I bought the Log periodic from dpdproductions.com/ over 20 years ago. Been out in the NV desert climate ever since, and still good as new. I don't see it on his web site any more, but I am sure Dave would build you one if you asked. 😀
If you have something to say and need a secure connection you'll have one. Why provide and expensive radio to someone picking up trash or sweeping the floor? Anyone outside the area isn't going to understand what's going on. I don't think anyone is going to hear words like Ray-gun, Flying saucer or Aliens. Doing pretty good for a little setup. Imagine what surveillance equipment the Chinese in the area are using. Oh the chinese are there alright.
@@rickhunt3183 No smoking gun, but occasionally they do slip up in radio comms. I have learned a lot by monitoring their comms.
dont tell them!!
What a fun hobby! This is something we old guys can do for many years. I have no doubt that military intelligence monitors your activities. If they were smart, they would give you a medal (instead of hassling you) for showing the extent of civilian technology to monitor their communications. That is a valuable thing to know. Keep up the good work. PS. I am still using my Radio Shack P97 mainly because it still works well with the RH77CA antenna you recommended. lol
LOL! Well, I'm not showing "them" everything I can do. 😀 Those old scanners with mil air still work great around here. What a lot of people don't realize is how important a good antenna is. On that note: There are actually inferior chinese knock-offs of the Diamond antenna that are virtually indistinguishable from the real deal. Anyone in the market, buy from a reputable source.
Excellent video! I'd love to see your setup when mobile/in the field if you're looking to do another video on this topic. 😃
Thank you. I am working on a video about mobile scanning at the Powerlines Overlook, but that focuses more on the location. I'll add the mobile setup to my list of future videos. 😀
Very nice setup one of my homemade antennas was taken down by the recent winter weather but will be getting it back up an mabe improved later on
Thanks!
Good job mate. Military comms security are always a bit unsecure. Because securing everything costs big bucks. KD6CFE was here 73`s.
Thanks! Yes, I hear quite often that they have to fall back to transmitting "in the clear" due to issues with secure comms like Have Quick and what is referred to as "Tango Mike" in missions. I believe the latter to be air-ground comms transmitted with the telemetry data stream.
Security can go encrypted for increase FPCON conditions ;)
Can you detect a source that is frequency hopping? Apparenlty the F22 has a radar that can light up a target using time slices of different frequencies such that the duration of each frequency is not active long enough for the target to detect that it's being painted.
That depends on a number of variables. Most notably how close I am to the transmitter and the length of the time slices. If they are long enough the counter will just display the frequencies in sequence. If the slices are too short it may not be able to accurately show the individual frequencies.
In that case I would use a fast SDR and spectrum analyzer software with the "peak hold" function (SDR#). Over time I would see a number of peaks, each representing one of the frequencies.
Or the SDRUno software that finds new frequencies. That is how I found all the frequencies used by the Have Quick system. Which operates very similar to what you describe, with about 20 discrete frequencies and time slices. The weakness of Have Quick is that it depends on precisely synchronized timing. It often fails during Red Flag and they have to fall back to clear channels. You can find the Have Quick frequencies in my scanner list at: www.dreamlandresort.com/info/scanner.html
Most scanners also have VHF and UHF to be able to receive police and fire calls too. Some of them even have the ability to demodulate digital signals if the signal isn’t encrypted in such a way that it is scrambled.
Several of my scanners and software programs have that ability. Where it gets tricky is when you are dealing with encrypted systems, like the 380 MHz trunking system use by security. That is a bit harder to monitor. 😀
Have you ever had a visit from Jake and Elwood?
LOL! Not yet, but from the Men in Black: www.area51fbiraid.com/
Just found your channel tonight. Thanks for sharing your expertise. Like you I am very much interested in receiving radio signals from everywhere. Good luck in your efforts against the federal US government. This will not be an easy battle for you. But I do wish you luck
Here's a HUGE "F" to the FBI !
Do you have a live feed to where we can listen to live radio traffic?
Unfortunately not at the moment. Our internet in Rachel does not have enough bandwidth. If they ever run fiber lines all the way I will look into that.
@@Dreamland-Resort That would be awesome perhaps Elon could help with Starlink?
@ Thanks for getting back to me! Hopefully you will be able to get better Internet out there someday!
Nice video. Ive subbed. Im in UK and close to Lakenheath Mildenhall and Marham. I monitor those bases and others out over the North Sea with a selection of Airspy R2s an Airspy Mini and several scanners that I have aquired over the years. Like you my oldest is the trusty Yupi 7100. I have 3 hand held bearcats with alpha tagging and an AOR 3000A. I use SDR# with The Wraiths fast scanner audio recorder and freq manager plug ins. I split the UHF band into 3 for the R2s and do the whole band with the mini to catch other stuff when the R2s are recording. The fast scanner plug in by The Wraith with SDR# is amazing software (I see you have a copy) It is much faster than the SDR play you use. One Airspy R2 alone can do 225MHz to 400 MHz in less than 2 secs. You can also display the freq it stops on on the spectrum display using that version of the freq manager. Looking forward to more videos I would love to spend a week there for a red flag.
I just subscribed i love what u are doing i am basically doing the same thing i have a bcd536hp a sds100 and several RTL-SDR dongels dsdplus is my go to for finding new frequencies. one small question though on your sds200 what software do you use to program it? Thanks
I use Uniden's BCDx36HP Sentinel to program the SDS200. Works very well and also allows firmware updates. For the scanner itself I bought the NXDN upgrade option. Very happy with that as well.
@@Dreamland-Resort Ok cool i use sentinel as well i also use proscan, proscan gives you soo much more freedom when it comes to programmng. I to have the NXDN upgrades as well as the DMR . They are really good scanners the only issue i have found with them is they seem to scan slower than some of the other scanners on the market.
Give the audience some EAM traffic. The command post goes un encrypted for exercises.
I don't do a lot of HF monitoring, but I will check out the HF-GCS frequencies and see if I can pick up something in Rachel.
Im still using old time scanner radio! No SDR! On highway 51 in Wisconsin. 😆
Anything important I’m sure they use encryption channels
Area 51 security does. A lot of missions are in the clear, but all you get is fly to point X, execute card Y etc. If you don't know where point X is, or what card Y calls for, its very hard to figure out what they are doing.
I have a almost similar setup. I need a p25 trunk radio though
P27?
@Dreamland-Resort it's digital and mostly encrypted. Anything that's military or government or police is p25vnow. It's a cellular world wide range 2 way radio. Also sends pictures and text. If it's not on p25, it's not worth listening to half the time. I suggest u study on it and get a key for your radio dongle bc its a whole new world I promise you
@@w.e.s. I will look into that. I am quite familiar with APCO P25 but have never heard of P27.
@@w.e.s.Im a motorola and Kenwood LMR tech. APCO P25 is the only standard. P27 doesn't exist.
@@BTenold well u ain't that good at ur job then bc they've been around 20 years or longer.
I,m curious too if anyone at Area 51 would know you're listening too them?
They do. They had a chance to study my equipment when FBI and OSI raided my home two years ago and stole over $25k worth of electronics: www.area51fbiraid.com/
I’m a ham radio operator, so if you want, you can bore me with the information since I know pretty much everything about radio programming anyway lol.
Well, just like Area 51 I cannot talk about everything I do. Not because it is illegal, but because I don't want the "other side" to know what I can do. 😀
@@Dreamland-Resort If the 'other side' isn't aware of the likelihood their comms are easily monitored by foreign interests perhaps the secretary of defense should consider some 'changes' maybe?
Could you do like a live stream for red flag pleaseee
Unfortunately our internet in Rachel is not fast enough to stream. If they ever run fiber optics I will look into that.
Bet they like you. 😅
Oh, they love me. In fact, as my banner states, I am rated #1 by the FBI when it comes to Area 51 research.
erster. 😎
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@@Dreamland-Resort brauch ich nicht 😜
It would be interesting to see the cancer rates of longterm residents out that way because all of that where you're living, Joerg, is coated in plutonium, cesium and who knows what else. You guys are breathing it in and eating it all the time.
You should mind your own business and get a life
We had our share of cancer deaths. The radiation is monitored all round the test site, and occasionally there are interesting and concerning spikes.
Wats the point?
It's his hobby. You might as well ask, what is the point in breathing.