[Scan-DC] Trunked Radio audio quality

[John Bacon]

Again I agree with everyone. I believe communications is KEY in any job.
Meaning FF to Dispatch and what not. Without that bond someone could die.
Take for instance the Worcester, Mass Cold Storage for several years back.
Worcester uses GE. Yes good system but has its flaws. When that radio goes
into a brick building or Steel there goes your signal. You can't beat your
good ole LOW BAND RADIOS. Another one is Mass State Police, when the started
there testing they did it in the fall/winter and when the spring and summer
came around. BOOM there were leaves on the trees. And there goes a
MULTI-Million dollar system. Mass S.P. is still expanding because of that
problem. Now I am just noticing that R.I. is getting into the Trunking. Lets
see how that goes.

JOHN

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Henney" <alan@henney.com>
To: "Scan DC" <Scan-DC@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 1:26 AM
Subject: [Scan-DC] Trunked Radio audio quality


>
> Hi Carl, and the list.
>
> I share your thoughts exactly on digital audio.  My first experience with
a
> digital radio was "this radio must have old firmware or something."
>
> For crying out loud, users should never have to be told that trying to
> understand what somebody is trying to say is "something you have to get
> acclimated to."
>
> Arlington County is still analog and sounds great to my ear.  Which brings
> me to my next point.  I can understand advantages of building an
all-analog
> or all-digital system, but why have several jurisdictions chosen to mix
both
> on the same system (Howard, Upper Eastern Shore, Worcester, maybe
Charles)?
> Either you intend to conserve bandwidth or not.
>
> Had APCO digital systems existed when I started, and with this amount of
> complication, poor audio..... I probably would be collecting baseball
cards
> right now!
>
> With regard to the note that digital systems are intended to conserve
> bandwidth, I would have to point out that APCO audio sounds significantly
> worse to me than digital audio used by the cell carriers who also have
> spectrum efficiency goals.  It's as if APCO is older technology.  Although
> Nextel sounds pretty awful at times.
>
> Alan
>
>
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