[Scan-DC] Curious about the hobby

[Joseph M. Durnal]

I think it depends both on what you are interested in listening to and
where you are located.

I don't think I've ever come across a phase two system where I travel in
West Virginia, but they are several in the national capitol region.

Receivers and scanners aren't really in the same category in my opinion.
Receivers don't typically include trunking capacities, even if they can
decode digital project 25 signals.  If you are interested in local fire and
police, a whistler or uniden scanner is what you are looking for, and if
there is phase two where you plan to listen, you'll want a scanner that
decodes that.

J

On Wed, Jan 2, 2019, 4:49 AM Greg Danes <danesgswolf at gmail.com wrote:

> After Alan's article I looked at the manufacturers selling scanners (Uniden
> and Whistler) and noticed something. Uniden has so many more radios that
> are up to Phase 2 P25 specs than anyone else. In my quest for possible
> radio buys in the future I see many great makers of wide-band and such,
> AOR, ICOM doing the P25 thing but its all phase 1. I guess you can only
> squeeze so much into a box and hope the buyer is more interested in Air
> comms and shortwave for 500 bucks than local PD and FD. But as a scanner
> person I am thinking that if its coming down to most protocols in a radio
> for the money Uniden is leading the pack.
>
> Comments?
>
> KJ4DGE
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