Aussie Shooter
Member
Hi all,
This week we have lost our ability to monitor Police radio frequencies due to the police going encrypted. No doubt this has the potential to severely cut down my workload/income as we will no longer catch the breaking news story as effectively as we could three days ago. Now it comes down to contacts (although most of the news-related contacts are in the same boat as us) and networking.
Do any of you have any hints as to how to approach this? We have the usual contact network such as radio stations and tow-truck operators, but, as I said, they used to monitor Police for their work and now they can't.
Perhaps you have some techniques in situations like this, that build networks/contacts (that I wouldn't have normally thought of) so we don't have rely on the scanners as much and still get breaking stories.
Thanks and regards,
AS
This week we have lost our ability to monitor Police radio frequencies due to the police going encrypted. No doubt this has the potential to severely cut down my workload/income as we will no longer catch the breaking news story as effectively as we could three days ago. Now it comes down to contacts (although most of the news-related contacts are in the same boat as us) and networking.
Do any of you have any hints as to how to approach this? We have the usual contact network such as radio stations and tow-truck operators, but, as I said, they used to monitor Police for their work and now they can't.
Perhaps you have some techniques in situations like this, that build networks/contacts (that I wouldn't have normally thought of) so we don't have rely on the scanners as much and still get breaking stories.
Thanks and regards,
AS