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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT (13 MAR 2021)

The Utah Communications Agency Network (UCAN) and the Utah Communications Authority (UCA) will be decommissioning the current 800Mhz Motorola trunking system by the end of 2023 (now expected in August - November 2024). UCAN is the main Public Safety trunked system used throughout the state of Utah and is one of the largest systems in the nation. Over 100 Motorola Trunking sites will be shut down and replaced with an all-digital P25 system using 700Mhz. It will impact all Utah public safety and services agencies. After the change, a large body of the information on this site will be out of date.

THIS SITE WILL BE GOING AWAY AFTER THE TRANSITION IS COMPLETE (Q3 2024).

Your scanner or radios must support P25 digital and will need to be reprogrammed to continue to hear anything on the new system. The community isn't sure how much of the traffic will be encrypted after the switch. If regular channels are encrypted, it will become illegal to attempt to monitor that traffic. We can only hope that if the UCA chooses to do this, they will offer time-delayed or filtered streams of radio transmissions to the public. The public has a special interest in monitoring the activity and operations of public safety agencies. Recent documented abuses by law enforcement officers who have covered up activities or mistakes by abusing laws originally meant to protect victims are a prime example.

Please copy any information you want or need from this site prior to December, 2022. For additional details see the RadioReference Utah forum. An effort is underway to save some content on the RadioReference Utah wiki: https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Utah_(US).

UPDATE 21 July, 2024: The cutover has been scheduled. All counties will be switched over by the end of October 2024. Encryption keys are deployed to each radio, but it is apparently up to each agency to decide if they will use them. It is anticipated that many agencies will choose to go encrypted. If this does indeed take place, it will end the ability of the public to oversee or monitor what their law enforcement agencies are discussing on the radio. This site will be deleted at the end of October 2024 as the information contained within will essentially become meaningless. Please use archive.org if you need to reference anything historically.

UPDATE 20 September, 2024: The cutover has experienced several unanticipated delays. Some agencies and counties have successfully made the switch. We are sad to report many agencies, with law enforcement in particular, are choosing to switch to fully encrypted communications. This will end the decades long service provided by private citizen technical volunteers, whom have monitored public safety activity in their communities. Going forward, we can only recall a time when the public had a right to monitor the activities of their own law enforcement agencies. We know, from first hand experience, some of the abuses and behavior a few in the LE community engaged in, and exposed via radio transmissions and through our volunteers and the media. We anticipate this change will harm the public's special interest in monitoring the activity of those we have placed in a role of power, measured by trust, now without means of verification. We anticipate the cut-over will be complete sometime in early 2025.

73 de N2OW,

-Ryan

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