[ScanIndiana] will pro 96 or 2096 be outdated soon?

[Bob Burns K4RXR]

Dave, Project SAFE-T is a Motorola Smartzone Omnilink system in the 
800MHz public safety band using both analog and digital talk groups. 
Any trunk tracking scanner capable of following a Motorola "Type II" 
system should be able to follow the analog talk groups on SAFE-T. 
However, the digital SAFE-T talk groups use the APCO P25 common air 
interface to transmit the voice signal. You must have a scanner 
capable of decoding APCO P25 to listen to the digital talk groups on 
SAFE-T. This is an internal scanner feature. I'm not aware of any 
external software available to the average consumer that will decode APCO P25.

The Indiana State Police, Indiana DoT, Indiana DNR, and most other 
state agencies are on Project SAFE-T. This system is not completely 
built out, but the system is nearly 100% complete in the northern and 
central parts of the state. The southern part of the state is coming 
on-line probably will be 100% within the next 12 months.

Also, your local community (county sheriff, county fire, city/town 
police, city/town fire) may be planning to switch to SAFE-T or have 
already done so.

The two best source of hobbyist information for the system are:

www.radioreference.com -- you will need to register to access the 
database, but registration is free.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SAFET/ -- this is a Yahoo group 
dedicated to Project SAFE-T and other scanning issues around the state.

I bought a Uniden BCD396 scanner last fall so I could scan Project 
SAFE-T. I think I paid $525, but it is an extremely capable scanner. 
Several members of the above-mentioned Yahoo group are using the 396.

Bob...