you will not usually find a European system online because of privacy laws and the increasing use of encrypted digital sets, even if the country permits monitoring.
The Netherlands marine channels are online somewhere, but VHF will be mostly in Dutch – its a shorter range signal you can use your country’s native language.
Some American law enforcement agencies use a different phonetic alphabet to NATO and Europe. Older people may remember it from CHiPS, but is can be found online.
@thelog 481306 wrote:
This one police channel is giving off a morse code like code. LOL
often it is morse, and will start “K (kilo)” or “W (whisky”). these letters mean “USA” in radio call signs. It is the callsign of the repeater. Many counties Communications Ministry either encourage or even insist on this practice. it may seem outdated but has a variety of advantages – the repeater (which is two radios linked together and antennas put in a high place) is important as it makes the smaller radios go bigger distances (I can explain this on another thread if people are curious), so it makes sense for folk to know it is working. sometimes the equipment can fail – it might lose its electric, or stray livestock might nibble the antenna cable. And then emergency resillience procedures must be implemented.
in England most blue light comms is digital Airwave but there is a arrangement called Raynet so if/when all the digitial kit goes tits up, they can work with radio hams to use repeaters already put there in strategic positions. Normally the hams use them to talk to each other (its what folk did before Partyvibe etc was invented) but in emergency part of your license condition is you should serve your country by helping ambulances, rescue services communicate.
Our local repeater is on top of the hospital and has call sign G3BPO. The last three letters stand for “British Post Office” because it was put there by the boffins at Adastral park when I was about 3 years old and the Post Office still ran all the telecommunications.
