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N8xfj
Intermediate Member
Username: N8xfj
Post Number: 148
Registered: 8-2006
| | Posted on Friday, October 06, 2006 - 11:20 pm: | 
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Like to get a good bc796d scanner because everything here will soon be going to apco25 between now and spring. |
Hyperno_1979
Intermediate Member
Username: Hyperno_1979
Post Number: 187
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 1:41 am: |
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I'm interested in this too Steve,
90% of our Pleece Farce have gone digital as well. Waiting to see if the new digital scanners will actually pick up or are the country's "Fine"est going to be scrambled.
CEFFFCEF
Bob CEF703. |
N8xfj
Intermediate Member
Username: N8xfj
Post Number: 149
Registered: 8-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 9:16 am: |
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Well Hype On the digital or trunking they more than likely won't be doing any scrambling it just a regular scanner wont rx their transmissions and the digital apco25 capable scanner will rx the mode..I have 1 already, its the older version bc785d that the card had to be gotten for and works great, but I do need 1 more
for another room for the Mrs.
There are a few counties close to us that has already gone to it and we tried the regular and it was a NO GO, all you hear is white noise like an open squelch. But then I turned the digital one on that has their freqs in it and WHOLLAAA there she be Mate...So we both need to get one.. |
Hotwire
Senior Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 1873
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 1:15 pm: |
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Won't be long and the price of those digital scanners will come down and I can get one. Last time I checked they was around 500 dollars for a portable at Radio Shack.
At first I was told the scanners were in the thousands of dollars.
Trying to remember, it was about maybe close to 7 years ago(give or take) one day I turned on my scanner to monitor the local police and it was dead. So I figured they changed freqs and went to radio shack cause I knew a ham there who may know where they went. He told me they was in a testing stage and that Johnson County in Indiana was the first agency to try out the new system in the country. Not sure if that was so I would imagine many others tested it out as well. So far the only agency in Indiana using the digital is the Franklin Police(maybe Greenwood) in Johnson County, that I know of. Indianapolis is still on 800 mhz trunked since the late 80's early 90's.
The biggest problems was that different local police agencys could not communicate with each other. They all need to convert at the same time. Many problems occured when the county vehicles could not contact the state vehicles. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 4092
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, October 07, 2006 - 7:58 pm: |
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here we are slowly going digital and undergoing the rebanding that wil obsolete all the radioshack/bearcat scanners that cannot be flashed / updated. |
Kc8pdp
Junior Member
Username: Kc8pdp
Post Number: 14
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 1:57 pm: |
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The New bearcat 996t will probably be one of the first to get popped if they start that around here since it is the newest of the digital scanners.
Everything will eventually be digital. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 4094
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 6:04 pm: |
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rebanding messes up the trunking on most scanners |
Wally38
Intermediate Member
Username: Wally38
Post Number: 132
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 10:45 pm: |
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So, if I get a digital scanner, will my local police still be able to scramble or will I be able to hear them fine? Do I need that card? |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 4095
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, October 08, 2006 - 11:16 pm: |
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digital and scrambling are not the same it is LEAGAL to copy digital it is ILLEAGAL ( check FCC rules covering scrambled signals ) to descramble any public safety signals.
check with your local police since in some states it can get you jail time ........ |
N8xfj
Intermediate Member
Username: N8xfj
Post Number: 205
Registered: 8-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 1:13 pm: |
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how many digital scanners you have laying around in the shack there bruce? |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 4169
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 - 7:02 am: |
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ZERO ( yet ) here untill the change over.
Remember who I work for ...... |
N8xfj
Intermediate Member
Username: N8xfj
Post Number: 206
Registered: 8-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006 - 7:41 am: |
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I got ya, I forgot about that whom you work for..
I figure somewhere down the line it is due to be suspected though. |
Bruce
Senior Member
Username: Bruce
Post Number: 4173
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, November 17, 2006 - 6:13 am: |
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I spend 40 hours a week with a Jail/Sheriff radio going in my ear .... When I get home i would rather lissen to Ch 13 LSB ....... |
N8xfj
Intermediate Member
Username: N8xfj
Post Number: 213
Registered: 8-2006
| | Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 - 10:38 am: |
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Yeah I would say that would be about enough for a day for sure Bruce...LOL |
Johhn
Member
Username: Johhn
Post Number: 59
Registered: 8-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 8:33 am: |
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Around TX. They all went too. lap top's....
Even the Fire truck's went. with a volenteer-
dept.you should here them on there old channel calling them but they can't answer.where are you?
It's a touch screen head about 4"square..it shows
the adress,where to go. johhn 361 |
Johhn
Member
Username: Johhn
Post Number: 60
Registered: 8-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 8:41 am: |
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Yes; if you pay some one else too program your scanner..you will have to do it again.. so don't. get your own cord and soft ware...
about every other mounth they rotate frequ..
johhn 361 |
