[ScanIndiana] Digital scanning in the future

[scanindiana@mailman.qth.net]

  I was reading some of the archives on this mailing list and there was a 
gentlemen that said the new digital trunked systems will probably all be 
encrypted in the future. No, I don't think this will happen. For one thing 
all police agencies scan and monitor other police agencies, kinda like the 
State Police will use a scanner to monitor traffic from other police agencies 
around them,  like county or city police. The only digital system that will 
go full encryption in the future will be the Nextel system. The Nextel system 
is a very expensive trunked system that will be used by government law 
enforcement agencies like the FBI and AFT. It is a National Security Radio 
System. The FBI and other government agencies has always used encrypted 
radios. Just because our common law enforcement agencies like City Police and 
Sheriff Departments are going digital does not mean they are going to go 
encrypted. If they wanted to go encrypted they would have did it a long time 
ago. They are going digital because it will give them better improvement in 
their reception on their radios. You know when you are listening to an analog 
800 MHz trunked system and the modulation on the mobiles sounds weak and also 
you have those cracking sounds within the carriers, well the digital systems 
will improve this.   


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