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>>eloran+(OP)
I'm surprised they didn't mention that someone in Chicago seems to have stolen a police radio and has been trolling them for days.

>>empath+Ka
I'm pretty sure any $30 Baofeng will let you broadcast on these frequencies.

>>swebs+9h
Any trunked radio system hops between frequencies enough that this wouldn't work.

Individual radios get "paged" on a control channel and told where to receive. Eg, "Radios tuned to the police talk group, go to frequency X now." The speaker, when transmitting, gets assigned a frequency on the fly.

A baofeng could stomp on a transmission, but nobody would follow it otherwise.

>>oasisb+ok
Chicago uses a straight analog repeater system

>>blanto+Cl
Analog repeaters still use trunking protocols.

Edit: Whoops, I didn't realize CPD still had so many assigned frequencies in-use with just a code to activate. That could be done with a Baofeng.