[ScanIndiana] Marion County

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>APCO25 is a publicly
>available standard -- hence the card. The others are not. What leads you to
>believe that policy will be changing? And what indicates the Uniden scanners
>are made for swapping cards?

  Look at how Uniden made these new digital scanners. For one thing, they are 
not digital unless you buy the card that slides into the slot in the back. 
Without that card the scanner might say digital on it, but it won't recieve 
APCO 25 digital transmissions without the card. Without the card it is just 
another analog trunk scanner. I think one of the reasons Uniden did this is 
because they think there will be other digital systems in the future that we 
will have the right to monitor. So instead of Uniden making us wait for them 
to build a scanner that will monitor these future systems, all you would have 
to do is buy a card for it and slide it in the scanner you already have. I 
think if Uniden thought that the APCO 25 digital systems will be the only 
systems we will have a chance to monitor, they would of built the APCO 25 
chip inside of the scanner. The APCO 25 card will cost around $169 or more. 
Some peole think that Uniden built this scanner this way, so people that 
don't live near a digital system could buy the scanner without having to buy 
the card, but don't Uniden still make about 8 regular analog trunked scanners 
that these people could buy at a cheaper cost? Just like on your computer,  a 
new graphic or sound card will come out every couple of years and to keep 
your computer up to date all you have to do is buy the new cards and slide 
them in you console. I think that is how the future of scanners will be. One 
of these days the APCO 25 systems will update and when they do, instead of 
buying a new scanner,  all we will have to do is but the new card.


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