[TrunkCom] Re: [UnidenBC250D] Re: 9600 baud users nationwide and new unidens

Wed, 25 Dec 2002 12:58:11 -0500

The bad thing is that Ohio is going to the MARCS TRS.  The good thing is
that it is 3600 Baud.  I already can pick up the Cleveland 1 ( West Side
) Repeater's 3.6 Baud Control Frequency.  The  question is can one pick
up ( hear ) a 9.6K Control frequency on an analog radio scanner?

On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 09:29:39 -0800 Harry Marnell <[email protected]>
writes:
> I doubt that many systems that were built with and are already using 
> 3600 will
> spend the $$ to go to 9600, but Uniden may well have stepped on 
> their, um,
> antenna by not including 9600 trunking capability in their first 
> digital
> scanners.  Like the man says, they've effectively lost all their 
> sales in MI, CO
> and MN.
> 
> But on the other hand, any APCO-25 system that's conventional rather 
> than
> trunked (e.g. LAPD) will be fine with these, as well as all the 
> 3600-baud
> trunked systems.
> 
> Harry
> http://www.snowcrest.net/marnells/digital-scanner.htm  (with a new 
> 1-question
> poll)
> 
> 
> Also, go to: http://www.trunkedradio.net/modules.php?name=TRSDB  and 
> click on
> "Special Reports - List All Digital Systems" Retrieve  for a list of 
> TRUNKED
> digital systems with their baud rates.  Doesn't include conventional
> (non-trunked)
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 07:43
> Subject: [UnidenBC250D] Re: 9600 baud users nationwide and new 
> unidens
> 
> 
> > Our local system in my fairly unpopulated state of Utah is 3600
> > analog and has over 16,000 radios (at least that I have logged 
> with
> > Trunker).
> >
> > 3600 baud system deployment has been going on since the early 
> 1980's
> > I would find it very difficult to believe that 9600 baud systems 
> have
> > already supassed or even come close to 3600 systems in just a year 
> or
> > two.
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "Robert Dale" <rdale@w...> 
> wrote:
> > > > Doe's anyone know approximate how many police departments
> > nationwide
> > > > are using the 9600 baud control channel? If there is a 
> bunch,why
> > is
> > > > Uniden releasing this scanner without that capability? With 
> all
> > the
> > >
> > > There are over 100 police dept's in the State of Michigan 
> alone...
> > I would
> > > estimate that thanks to MI, MN and CO the number of 9600 baud 
> users
> > is the
> > > same at 3600 baud.
> > >
> > > > wider than anyone knows. I might wait for the radio shack
> > surprise a
> > > > couple of months after the release of thi and the base and buy 
> the
> > > > radio shack version for $200 cheaper and it will probably do 
> 9600.
> > >
> > > So you're saying RS will come out with something more powerful 
> that
> > Uniden's
> > > and sell is for $200 cheaper? 1) That would put the scanner at 
> $150
> > 2)
> > > That's not very wise business sense.
> > >
> > >  - rd
> >
> >
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