[net.ham-radio] White House Radio replies

wn9nbt@ecn-ee.UUCP (08/24/84)

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ecn-ee!wn9nbt    Aug 23 23:54:00 1984



Thanks to all of the replies from my question about the White
House Security Radios that are not "receivable" with a conventional
scanner.   Most replies suggest that they are using a Motorola
system that employs the DES algorythm or a similar method developed
by Motorola.   I built a simple circuit years ago to listen to
a local Police department that used a speech inversion scheme.  That
turned out to be quite simple to defeat.  This appears to be quite
secure and for all practical purposes, extremely difficult to
impossible to decode, without the key /etc.   Sorry I didn't thank
everyone personally, but I don't have access to arpanet, where several
of the replies came from.    Thanks !!......Dave Chasey -- wn9nbt