[Scan-DC] Buy now or wait?

[ka3jjz at netscape.com]

In very simple terms, the new PG county system will be using a scheme that the current crop of trunktrackers cannot decode.

73 Mike

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Wiki Administrator, HF Forum moderator, Radioreference.Com 

--- leonzo at hotmail.com wrote:
Why will the PG system be unmonitorable?

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From: <ka3jjz at netscape.com>

> Unless he was talking about PG county's upcoming trunk system (which will 
> be, at least so far, unmonitorable), that's utter nonsense. Most of the 
> newer digital trunktrackers - including the 996XT - can trunk in the 700 
> mhz band.
>
> And I suspect it will be awhile before a lot of communities move into that 
> band (although I understand Baltimore county is actively working on it - 
> it's going to be 2 or 3 years before the system is actually up). The state 
> is pretty cash strapped right now, as are many communities, unless we get 
> some help from the Feds...73 Mike
>
> links editor,Utility Monitoring Central
> Wiki Administrator, HF Forum moderator, Radioreference.Com
>
> --- rdevous at verizon.net wrote:
>
>
> I was talking to a friend of mine who is a ham operator and I mentioned
> that I was considering buying the new BCD996XT and he said that he
> wouldn't buy anything now as a lot of the emergency services were
> switching their equipment to use the old analog TV signals and you would
> not be able to monitor them.  I was wondering what  those with more
> understanding of this subject think.
>
> Ray
 

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