[ScanIndiana] Digital sanning in the future

Thu, 18 Apr 2002 19:29:06 -0500

Getting an analog signal could have to do that a digital system wasn't near
by.  There's still some Indiana towns or around 10,000 people that don't
have a PCS site.  You know the old saying there ain't nothing but corn
fields in Indiana.

Les, N9TRZ
What this country needs is a living tax break!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerome M. Kutche" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 09:25 PM
Subject: Re: [ScanIndiana] Digital sanning in the future

> Yes they are better at somethings......    But as the one guy said you
have
> trade off... Where with an analog CellPhone you had static but could still
> make out enough of the conversation to get the message thru... You will
not
> with Digital...As it is either there whole or gone completely... Ever lose
a
> cellphone call with a digital phone... You have no early warning that you
> will lose signal like u do with analog.. It will just drop out completly..
> All of a sudden... Yes it does a good job most of the time.. But I really
> like my digital/analog cellphone.. Because it switches to analog (Prior to
> dialling) if I am in a poor digital signal area.. And that way I can still
> get my call thru... A bit noisy but enough to get my message thru...
>
> Example: This evening at 7:53 PM I was in our Stone Quarry, a whole in the
> ground if you will.. A digital signal, was impossible to get a connection
> with... The phone switched to analog... I was able to call home and tell
the
> kids to record StarTrek Enterprise.. Just in time for the start, since I
was
> working over... If it wern't for the analog portion.. I would be sitting
> here not watching it right now...
>
> Jerry Kutche
> N9LYA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 7:23 PM
> Subject: [ScanIndiana] Digital sanning in the future
>
>
> > >I was part of a team that installed a Motorola Astro digital system in
> Los
> > >Angeles in the early 90's and the system is better than analog. It
> requires
> > >at least 3 receiver sites so the voter can look at all the signals and
> > >intermix the signal to basically rebuild it, and as a CD player
> oversamples
> > >to fill in the holes and give you nice clean music the radio system
will
> do
> > the same.
> >
> >   That was what I was thinking. The new digital systems were not meant
to
> > foil scanner users but to impove transmissions.
> >
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