Here in Wisconsin, there's lots of police action to be heard without trunk
tracking, the 154mhz range is still full of signals and the fact that the big
cities like Milwaukee have moved to 800mhz, just makes the smaller towns and
surrounding counties easier to be heard.

The 800mhz trunked stuff out of Milwaukee can still be heard without trunking
scanner, it's just harder to follow a series of transmissions, but with most of
the communications being 'one liners' anyway, no big whoop. I just type in the
trunked frequency and listen anyway. Out of 10 transmissions, I'll get 7
police, one municipal bus, and maybe 2 EMS. Fire is still not trunked.

jw
wb9uai
milwaukee