Scanner talk useful to public
Scanner talk useful to public
I use to depend on my emergency public radio scanner. When my parents were living I used to listen in when the KPD dispatcher dispatched the first responder (fire department) and the EMTs to my parents home. Needless to say, I would be there at my parents home or at the ER to check on them.
I also used to listen in of traffic conditions before heading east from the Westside. If there was a major accident or blockage (tree fallen, or boulder/landslide) on Kaumualii Highway I would wait it out before traveling eastbound.
Now it’s been almost two years pass since KPD dispatcher went to zoning frequency. The scanner listeners (myself included) have been cut off of listening to dispatch emergencies. To include EMTs and first responders calls I under stand that on most situation KPD don’t want an audience at the scene.
Whatever they (KPD) don’t want the public to hear, why couldn’t they just encrypt the conversation? instead of cutting off the public from listening by going to a zoning frequency.
The public has the right to listen in on road conditions and emergencies on what’s happening out there around Kauai highways, land, air, and sea.
Let us listen in again!
Howard Tolbe, Eleele
