[Scan-DC] Analog Virginia State Police transmission on 700 MHz

[John Wilson]

  As others have posted you probably heard the digital mobile repeater 
signal as the 996T will decode P25 signals and in my opinion, the 
digital audio is superior.

D.R. Watkins III wrote:

>Hi Andy,
>
>Just out of curiosity, were you able to confirm that it was analog FM?
>Close call automatically decodes digital for me, and I've heard some
>transmissions that were so good, that I couldn't tell that they were digital
>if I hadn't already known.
>
>Dewey
>
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>From: scan-dc-bounces+drwatkins3=rcn.com at mailman.qth.net
>[mailto:scan-dc-bounces+drwatkins3=rcn.com at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
>Andrew Clegg
>Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 14:45
>To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [Scan-DC] Analog Virginia State Police transmission on 700 MHz
>
>For my birthday last week, my XYL got me a Bearcat 996T for the car. Over
>the weekend, I took a very long (20 hour) car trip and got to play with the
>996T quite a bit in analog mode (I haven't tackled digital yet). It is an
>amazing piece of hardware.
>
>Late last night (Monday night), I was driving back to DC out on I-66, and
>passed what I believe was a VSP officer on a motorist assist, on the
>shoulder. Just as I passed, my close-call fired up, and tuned into the
>officer reporting the assist, in analog FM voice on a 764 MHz frequency.
>While I am aware that public safety is moving a lot of their operations to
>700 MHz, I was very surprised to hear analog on the very new channels. RR
>reports this frequency as part of the VSP APCO 25 system, but I would have
>thought it would have been digital from the get-go. Is anyone on Scan-DC
>able to provide some background on the VSP's use of 700 MHz?
>
>Thanks!
>Andy
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