"Lumpy" wrote in message
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Alex Clayton wrote:
Are you actually looking to listen to some city?

No. I'm looing for you to support your claim that
...Most City Police departments
that go to the expense of an of
a P-25 system do so to encrypt...

Are you trying to say any of the large cities that are going to the
expense to set up a P25 are leaving it open for the people to listen
to?
Which ones?

Which ones indeed. Support your claim.
Give us a list of some of those deparments
that have gone to a P25 so that they could encrypt.



G, Ok, sorry. I take it you have taken up selling digital scanners. Ok, to
anyone who is living where the State, county, or City police are getting
ready to go to the P25, buy a Digital scanner from Lumpy and you can still
hear them.

Better?

Now for the rest, if you live where they already have a P25 system, and want
to listen, a couple good ideas. First, if you do not actually know anyone
who has one and can tell you its open, go to a Radio Shack or two. If they
have one of their 96's set up ask to try it and see if you are hearing the
system you wish to listen in on. If you can't confirm it, and want to chance
it, buy one, and make sure you keep all the packaging. If you decide what
you can hear is not worth it, they do still seem to sell well on Ebay, and
you can get back a good portion of the money.

Another good idea is join the Radio Reference page. Send them a few bucks
and you can access the whole site. I have seen a lot of the info is way
behind, but many cities have a forum with constant messages, so you may find
someone who can confirm, BEFORE you spend the money. The Digital scanners
run over twice what a good trunking one does, or at least they still did
last I checked. When they got the P25 here I almost bought one of the Uniden
ones, but fortunately I held off till I could confirm that it would have
done me no good. When I was trying to find out for sure I was seeing a lot
of posts from other places and all of them were saying the same thing, that
once the department spent the cash to go to a P25, it was encrypted, which
made sense, other wise why bother. Now I'm sure all these people were lying,
but before you spend $500.00 and up, on a digital scanner, you may want to
check and make sure you can hear what you think you will be able to.
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