[Scan-DC] Analog/Digital (cellphones/radios)

[Cathy Drzyzgula]

I agree with some of your comments, but also find that digital can make  
some scanning easier (not so sure about the benefits to the people  
actually using the radios).  Since MOCO went digital it is now possible to  
hear all the ambulance transmissions as clearly as the hospitals hear  
them--which isn't always clear enough to be intelligible, I don't  
understand why their tranmissions get distorted so often.  This often  
gives a listener more info than just listening to the police and fire  
transmissions for the same incident).  The same is true for car to car  
transmissions, it used to be that I could only hear these within a few  
blocks of my home unless I used a big antenna, now I can pick them up from  
a much larger area because they are repeated, before they weren't.

Cathy
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:45:04 -0500, David Lloyd <lloydde at comcast.net>  
wrote:

> Sorry if this seems more like a rant than a question, I guess it's just  
> my
> fustration with the whole Public Safety initiative in the Washington  
> area to
> "improve things".. but it's certainly making things more difficult for  
> all
> parties invovled.  Just my observations,  being old-fashioned and hating
> the digital transmissions.. what next? Computer voice dispatching?
> David



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