[TrunkCom] New Uniden digital scanners

Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:48:02 -0400 (EDT)

That brings up another point, how many years have you heard that your
digital trunked systems are supposed to last?  Here in Grosse Pointe, some
of the officials thought 20 years or so, but I don't know what will come
after that.  Our old VHF high system lasted about 50 years.  In fact, I
think that the radio shop  with that system, and now the trunked system is
now was added onto the building just for the purpose of having an on site
radio shop that was centralized.  Before the VHF system they worked on AM
here in Grosse Pointe, and that lasted only 10 years, and the facilities
for that  are long gone and replaced by houses and my old high school.  
	There's no talk about us using the 9600 BAUD control channel, but
that could also come soon.  Right now I think that the only thing that is
in the works are the reorganization of talk groups so the six cities on
our system can talk at the same time, and not hear one another unless it
is an emergency.

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Dave Marshall wrote:

> The scanners will not have to be opened up to use the cards. The cards will be 
> similar in design to the PCMCIA cards used with notebook computers. This card design 
> will keep the initial cost of the scanner down, so that people who do not need the 
> APCO-25 card can buy the scanner without having to pay for the additional cost of an 
> expensive feature that they do not need. These scanners will replace the 245XLT and 
> the 780XLT, and will be within a few bucks of the price of the units that they will 
> replace.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> [email protected] wrote:
> >  So Uniden is coming out with two new digital scanners, the BC250D and 
> > BC785D. What I don't understand is why do you have to but a APCO 25  digital 
> > card for them? Shouldn't they come with the package? Do you have to take you 
> > new scanner apart and insert these cards?  Or do you just have to stick them 
> > in a slot in the back? I know a lot of prople would mess their scanners up if 
> > they had to get inside of them to wire a card in. Uniden...Why do you have to 
> > make it hard? Why can't they just sell the scanner with the card already in 
> > it? The scanners do say digital on them don't they? 
> > 
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