Stone County Sheriff's Office Post

The Stone Co SO posted this on their Facebook page this morning:

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We have received several complaints from the public about not being able to hear anything on the scanner anymore. We have upgraded our radio systems to analog/digital so that our officers will be able to contact us and the other officers in various parts of the county. The Stone County East Tower frequency is 155.120 if you put that in your scanner you will be able to hear what goes on at the Sheriff's office channel. The west tower is no longer on analog. If you have that programmed into your scanner, lock out that channel out or you will get a chainsaw noise(digital) come across that one. The City police channel is half analog and half digital so if you want to scan that one you will hear that chain saw noise come across that channel. The OES fire channels are not digital they are analog so you should be able to still hear the fire departments on those two channels. I hope this clears things up a bit. We are abiding by the guideline set forth by the FCC on what we can do with our radio systems to make them better for our officers and the public out there.

Is it just me or is some of that misleading? As if they are blaming the FCC for they themselves choosing to switch to a digital, non-monitorable radio type?



You can find their Facebook page yourself by searching for Stone County Sheriffs Office (no apostrophe in Sheriffs).



Thoughts?