helbent4:
McRae's suggestion to monitor the police bands came in as Champlain went about implementing Taras' idea along the same lines. Great minds indeed thought alike!
(OOC: tongue firmly planted in cheek, of course)
McRae's suggestion.. bah, the doer never gets any credit, without her skill where would they be.. besides monitoring radio signals is something she does regularly anyway. It's why having at least two radios is important to an RTO.
Anyway.
helbent4:
Immediately, they began picking up signals on the police band assigned to the West Van PD. It would likely take days of SIGINT gathering to decipher the codes, sort out the number and identity of stations, chart the individual call-signs and even voices of the senders, and so on. For the most part it was all routine traffic, radio-checks from the OPs and a HQ/command centre somewhere in town. Being in the District of West Van, Horseshoe Bay hadn't had its own police station or government building prior to the war, and the fire hall was just to the south outside of the security perimeter, so where the HQ was located was still a mystery.
Work that Sarah immediately undertakes, it is her job, after all.
helbent4:
The voices were all in English (some Russian-accented) so Taras' skills as a translator weren't needed. However, later on in the day, there was one Russian voice that was a tortured mixture of English, Russian and... Kazakh?
Taras' ears pricked up and a chill went down his spine as he listened to the crackling broadcast.
*She turns to look at the Russian, her brow perking and her face serious, pausing a moment to shake a cigarette from her pack*
"Ok, I think you need to share what made you act like someone walked over your grave"