[TrunkCom] 250d

[Bill Smith]

It's called progress.  We had tube type radios with one or two channels, 
then transistors and frequency inversion scrambling showed up, Programmable 
radios and digital encryption pops up, then trunking 
happened.  Unfortunately, digital modulation and new "improved" trunking 
formats are the order of the day.  When are the scanners that will do MPT 
trunking going to be made?  probably never since the number of deployed 
systems will be relatively small and it won't make economic sense for 
companies like Uniden to engineer and produce.

Accept the fact that your BC235 does Motorola Type 1 and 2, the 245 will do 
those and EDACS etc.... the 250D will decode digital modulation, the first 
scanner to do it. Its successor will do more types of digital 
modulation.  The fact of the matter is the mobile environment is changing. 
The FCC wants to narrow channels to 6.25 KHz spacing from the 12.5 KHz we 
are now subject to, down from the 25 KHZ spacing the we are used 
to.  Motorola has its Greenhouse project running in Florida on 700MHz with 
a wide band signal.  Face it, scanners are just like any other product, 
subject to obsolescence  Get used to it.


At 05:49 PM 3/28/2002 -0500, wpascanrec@wpascanner.com wrote:
>On 28 Mar 2002, at 15:22, Jerry Kacprzycki wrote:
>
> > You mean to tell me that this will go the route of the Analog Trunk 
> Trackers,
> > first Moto, then EDACS, then LT Right?
>
>Who knows, but for the short term ProVoice will NOT be supported.