got an old pro 2050 scanner on ebay for $40. trunk scanner and, with
the help of the group here (thanks alex clayton and john szalay), set
it up in about 2 minutes...working great...1st trunk scanner...thank
goodness the county is cheap and hasnt upgraded its system

i run with the local ambulance crew so like to keep an eye on the
folks when i'm not on duty

"bpuharic" wrote in message
...
got an old pro 2050 scanner on ebay for $40. trunk scanner and, with
the help of the group here (thanks alex clayton and john szalay), set
it up in about 2 minutes...working great...1st trunk scanner...thank
goodness the county is cheap and hasnt upgraded its system

i run with the local ambulance crew so like to keep an eye on the
folks when i'm not on duty

Glad it worked, and you may well be safe for a while then. The system is not
that old and was most likely quite expensive when they bought it. The
problems with the frequencies let out to Nextel showed up in time that many
places already knew about it when they set up a Mot. 800. that was why we
never had to reband here and so your area may also not have to.
There are of course always sales guys trying to push something new, but
with the economy the way it is many places are not willing to tell the
voters they want to buy some new toy (system) when the old one still works
fine.
--
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, 'What the hell
happened?'

bpuharic wrote in
:

got an old pro 2050 scanner on ebay for $40. trunk scanner and, with
the help of the group here (thanks alex clayton and john szalay), set
it up in about 2 minutes...working great...1st trunk scanner...thank
goodness the county is cheap and hasnt upgraded its system

i run with the local ambulance crew so like to keep an eye on the
folks when i'm not on duty

Thats great,

and just be glad that your area hasn't the idiots in charge , that we got.
they went to a P-25 digital system and all medical talkgroups have
been encrypted, so no scanners work ..big whoop...
(did,nt listen to the medical before the change so no big thing for
me,) but the whole concept of going to a common system for the metro
area was to insure that all services could work and communicate.that just
went out the window. no-one can talk to medical and medical can't talk to
fire or police . stupid
anyway, glad the 2050 is working for you..

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:27:50 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

got an old pro 2050 scanner on ebay for $40. trunk scanner and, with
the help of the group here (thanks alex clayton and john szalay), set
it up in about 2 minutes...working great...1st trunk scanner...thank
goodness the county is cheap and hasnt upgraded its system

i run with the local ambulance crew so like to keep an eye on the
folks when i'm not on duty

You're and ambulance chaser and you never learned how to write?
I hope you don't get in their way?

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:30:07 +1000, Barry
wrote:

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:27:50 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

got an old pro 2050 scanner on ebay for $40. trunk scanner and, with
the help of the group here (thanks alex clayton and john szalay), set
it up in about 2 minutes...working great...1st trunk scanner...thank
goodness the county is cheap and hasnt upgraded its system

i run with the local ambulance crew so like to keep an eye on the
folks when i'm not on duty

You're and ambulance chaser and you never learned how to write?
I hope you don't get in their way?

gee. someone who has absolutely nothing to say commenting on grammar

life treating you poorly? your dog hate you?

John Szalay wrote:
wrote in
:

got an old pro 2050 scanner on ebay for $40. trunk scanner and, with
the help of the group here (thanks alex clayton and john szalay), set
it up in about 2 minutes...working great...1st trunk scanner...thank
goodness the county is cheap and hasnt upgraded its system

i run with the local ambulance crew so like to keep an eye on the
folks when i'm not on duty

Thats great,

and just be glad that your area hasn't the idiots in charge , that we got.
they went to a P-25 digital system and all medical talkgroups have
been encrypted, so no scanners work ..big whoop...
(did,nt listen to the medical before the change so no big thing for
me,) but the whole concept of going to a common system for the metro
area was to insure that all services could work and communicate.that just
went out the window. no-one can talk to medical and medical can't talk to
fire or police . stupid

Australia had a Natural Disaster back in 1974 when a Cyclone just about
wiped Darwin off the map

in the following days there were Police sent from other states to help
out. but it was a nightmare as they all had their own radion equipment
and it was completely incompatible making radio comms almost impossible

The State Govts got together and formulated a "Police Band" with 64
channels from 467.850MHz to 469.425MHz to be used Australia wide so that
no matter where they were sent comms was possible

the Motorola got into the Police around the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games
and convinced them to go for an P25 digital radio system, The same as
being used by the ACT and Northern Territory Later QLD also went the same.

However Tasmania went for an 800MHZ Ericsson EDACS system
South Australia went for a 400MHz encrypted digital trunking system
Western Australia went for a 420Mhz non trunking digital system
and Victoria went for a 400MHz encrypted digital trunking system


Now the only stated capable of communication between states ins
NSW/QLD/NT and ACT

the rest have completely incompatible systems


so much for their disaster plans


Kev

And someone show can't read as well - the guy said he is on the "CREW" - not
that he chases them! Geesh. What an idiot.


"bpuharic" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:30:07 +1000, Barry
wrote:

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:27:50 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

got an old pro 2050 scanner on ebay for $40. trunk scanner and, with
the help of the group here (thanks alex clayton and john szalay), set
it up in about 2 minutes...working great...1st trunk scanner...thank
goodness the county is cheap and hasnt upgraded its system

i run with the local ambulance crew so like to keep an eye on the
folks when i'm not on duty

You're and ambulance chaser and you never learned how to write?
I hope you don't get in their way?

gee. someone who has absolutely nothing to say commenting on grammar

life treating you poorly? your dog hate you?

On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 19:09:27 -0400, "Steve"
wrote:

And someone show can't read as well - the guy said he is on the "CREW" - not
that he chases them! Geesh. What an idiot.

that's true. it's my wife who's the lawyer!



"bpuharic" wrote in message
.. .
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:30:07 +1000, Barry
wrote:

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:27:50 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

got an old pro 2050 scanner on ebay for $40. trunk scanner and, with
the help of the group here (thanks alex clayton and john szalay), set
it up in about 2 minutes...working great...1st trunk scanner...thank
goodness the county is cheap and hasnt upgraded its system

i run with the local ambulance crew so like to keep an eye on the
folks when i'm not on duty

You're and ambulance chaser and you never learned how to write?
I hope you don't get in their way?

gee. someone who has absolutely nothing to say commenting on grammar

life treating you poorly? your dog hate you?