Secure radio system?
Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:14 pm
I'm relatively new to radio programming, the question I have is if its possible to have a secure conventional repeater that someone cant come along with a ham ht and tamper with our repeater? We currently use a commercial repeater service and have a fleet of all types of radios, for mobiles we have:
2 Motorola Spectra's
1 Motorola Maxtrac
1 Motorola Maratrac
and these for portables:
a whole bunch of GE MPA-Scan's
a couple Motorola HT1000's
a couple Motorola Visar's
the problem we are having is for the past 4 years or so we have had this one mischivous ham operator who has programmed our repeater into his ham ht and yells profanities and racial slurs for hours at a time in the middle of the night.
All our radios are UHF. I have heard about some of the radios having encryption or things like that. Without moving to an LTR trunked system and changing all of our radios is there anything we can do with what we have to prevent people from tampering? We might be possibly replacing all the mobiles with Kenwood TK-880's soon if that makes a difference.
2 Motorola Spectra's
1 Motorola Maxtrac
1 Motorola Maratrac
and these for portables:
a whole bunch of GE MPA-Scan's
a couple Motorola HT1000's
a couple Motorola Visar's
the problem we are having is for the past 4 years or so we have had this one mischivous ham operator who has programmed our repeater into his ham ht and yells profanities and racial slurs for hours at a time in the middle of the night.
All our radios are UHF. I have heard about some of the radios having encryption or things like that. Without moving to an LTR trunked system and changing all of our radios is there anything we can do with what we have to prevent people from tampering? We might be possibly replacing all the mobiles with Kenwood TK-880's soon if that makes a difference.