Subject says it all, almost. I'm getting conflicting info- some say no, some
say always has been, some say soon. I got an unexpectedly large tax refund,
and was considering blowing part of it on a 800 digital trunk scanner, next
time Rat Shack or one of the mail order places has a sale. But if they are
already encrypting, or soon plan to, I'll spend the 400-500 or so on some
other toy. (I already have several vanilla scanners.)

aem sends....

aemeijers wrote:
Subject says it all, almost. I'm getting conflicting info- some say no, some
say always has been, some say soon. I got an unexpectedly large tax refund,
and was considering blowing part of it on a 800 digital trunk scanner, next
time Rat Shack or one of the mail order places has a sale. But if they are
already encrypting, or soon plan to, I'll spend the 400-500 or so on some
other toy. (I already have several vanilla scanners.)

aem sends....



You might want to read this:
http://www.radioreference.com/module...ame=RR&sid=100

It's long, but skimming it shows that some agencies are in fact
encrypting to "protect against terrorists". Will the agencies you're
interested in encrypt? Who knows.

--
John Mayson
Austin, Texas, USA

"aemeijers" wrote in message
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Subject says it all, almost. I'm getting conflicting info- some say no,
some say always has been, some say soon. I got an unexpectedly large tax
refund, and was considering blowing part of it on a 800 digital trunk
scanner, next time Rat Shack or one of the mail order places has a sale.
But if they are already encrypting, or soon plan to, I'll spend the
400-500 or so on some other toy. (I already have several vanilla
scanners.)

aem sends....


Very, seldom is it encrypted. Some of the obvious agencies that are dealing
with very sensitive, life threatening situations do use encryption on
occasion, but not full time. I think there are a couple counties in the
entire state that use encryption full time, from what I've heard.

I'm in S.E. lower Michigan, Tri-County area and most of it is in the clear.

Bill

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"aemeijers" wrote in message
...
Subject says it all, almost. I'm getting conflicting info- some say no,
some say always has been, some say soon. I got an unexpectedly large
tax refund, and was considering blowing part of it on a 800 digital
trunk scanner, next time Rat Shack or one of the mail order places has
a sale. But if they are already encrypting, or soon plan to, I'll spend
the 400-500 or so on some other toy. (I already have several vanilla
scanners.)

aem sends....


Very, seldom is it encrypted. Some of the obvious agencies that are
dealing with very sensitive, life threatening situations do use
encryption on occasion, but not full time. I think there are a couple
counties in the entire state that use encryption full time, from what
I've heard.

I'm in S.E. lower Michigan, Tri-County area and most of it is in the
clear.

Bill

Is following the Detroit system still a major challenge ?

"T-bone" wrote in message
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"Bill Crocker" wrote in
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"aemeijers" wrote in message
...
Subject says it all, almost. I'm getting conflicting info- some say no,
some say always has been, some say soon. I got an unexpectedly large
tax refund, and was considering blowing part of it on a 800 digital
trunk scanner, next time Rat Shack or one of the mail order places has
a sale. But if they are already encrypting, or soon plan to, I'll spend
the 400-500 or so on some other toy. (I already have several vanilla
scanners.)

aem sends....


Very, seldom is it encrypted. Some of the obvious agencies that are
dealing with very sensitive, life threatening situations do use
encryption on occasion, but not full time. I think there are a couple
counties in the entire state that use encryption full time, from what
I've heard.

I'm in S.E. lower Michigan, Tri-County area and most of it is in the
clear.

Bill

Is following the Detroit system still a major challenge ?


It's not great. Some people have better results than others, depending on
location.

"Bill Crocker" wrote in
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"T-bone" wrote in message
...
"Bill Crocker" wrote in
news

"aemeijers" wrote in message
...
Subject says it all, almost. I'm getting conflicting info- some say
no,
some say always has been, some say soon. I got an unexpectedly large
tax refund, and was considering blowing part of it on a 800 digital
trunk scanner, next time Rat Shack or one of the mail order places has
a sale. But if they are already encrypting, or soon plan to, I'll
spend
the 400-500 or so on some other toy. (I already have several vanilla
scanners.)

aem sends....


Very, seldom is it encrypted. Some of the obvious agencies that are
dealing with very sensitive, life threatening situations do use
encryption on occasion, but not full time. I think there are a couple
counties in the entire state that use encryption full time, from what
I've heard.

I'm in S.E. lower Michigan, Tri-County area and most of it is in the
clear.

Bill

Is following the Detroit system still a major challenge ?


It's not great. Some people have better results than others, depending
on
location.

Well guess I'll have to dive into the digital world one of these days, not
much going on on analog in my location [Detroit suburbs]
Whats the choices, just RS and Bearcat ?

Is following the Detroit system still a major challenge ?


It's not great. Some people have better results than others, depending
on
location.


The Pro 96 has had several DSP modifications released for it by Radio
Shack. These modifications make the Pro-96 and its tabletop brother
the 2096 into excellent scanners for monitoring the Detroit towers.
The Uniden scanners are vastly inferior and have not had any DSP
modifications made by Uniden in order to improve their performance
with systems such as the Detroit (Tower 701) MPSCS system.