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J.P. Paul
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2002 - 3:11 am: | 
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Just wondering with all the latest digital technology out there today with the mini-satellite systems and fixes for them. Is there a digital scanner for police scanning available now for avid listeners of police forces that operate on the so called digitally scrambled frequecies on the motorola police radios? If so where can such a scanner be purchased or modified? |
Tech181
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2002 - 1:31 pm: |
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J.P. Paul
Uniden is working on a digital receiver that will be able to intercept non-encrypted tranmission originating from APCO Project 25 systems.
It will probably be available within the next year or so.
This will be the ONLY receiver capable of hearing digital trunked radio systems.
Steve
Tech181
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bruce
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2002 - 2:22 pm: |
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Dont panic i work for a sheriff office and we DO NOT have any intrest in going digital. Maby over the next 10 years you will see some moves in that direction but here in central florida and most other places i talked too are in no rush to go that route. It is NOT illegual to hear digital trunking signals how ever crypted ones are another matter as for your local S.O. or police i would ask them in writing if any partictular rules apply ( here in florida) it is illegual to gave a scanner ATTACHED to your car but if you carry it in the car on its own power and its own antenna it is not. Here at the jail we are still convential on 460 mhz as is some county/city agencys.
bruce |
J.P. Paul
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2002 - 7:23 pm: |
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Canada's Federal Police Force the Royal Canadian Mounted Police which police alot of towns and country sides in Canada have switched over to the Motorola system about a year a half ago. They police the majority of my Province and I have not used my scanner since. So hopefully someone like Uniden will be successful in the near future, like I said earlier with things that happened with the mini-satellite systems, digital scanners are not to far in the future I hope. |
bruce
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2002 - 7:29 am: |
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Digital is VERY COSTLY and i can tell you there is only limited intrest in most depts in the usa. The cost does not warrent going there at least yet.... not that sometime down the road it will not become standard but by then there will be lots of radios ... sit back and enjoy your bearcat it a'nt going dead anytime soon. |
ncrebel
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2002 - 10:52 am: |
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Yea but the bad thing about it is they'll probally cost an arm and a leg to purchase. |
Tech181
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2002 - 12:57 pm: |
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Our county is looking to implement the M/ACOM Opensky system within the next nine years at a cost of around $20 million. If you think the radios WE play with are expensive, how about this. $3000 for a mobile radio!
Steve
Tech181
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bruce
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2002 - 2:50 pm: |
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tech 181 i carry a MTS-2000 in the job here at the S.O. it cost 2000 dollars and is NOT digital and our jail radios are icoms a very nice radio about 400 bucks not trunking but out jail system the system is only one repeater. The digital radios are 3000 and up now figure here we have 2000 hand helds and 500 moble radios PLUS what it would cost to upgrade 27 repeaters to digital and your talking LOTS of millions of bucks. Unless a county has a good reason to go digital it will not do so... pinellas county has 1 MILLION people and has not seen any reason to do so just too costly. |
Tech181
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2002 - 11:52 pm: |
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bruce,
Palm Beach County just signed on to the same vendor as us. Opensky.com
Steve
Tech181
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bruce
| | Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2002 - 10:28 am: |
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we have that technolgy here but not through them the GPS systems in our crusers and EMS equiptment is now being followed up by wireless internet all of which is experimental... neet stuff and lots of bucks. |
