Thinking about getting back into the hobby

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dwolf111

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I live in Cedar county, and thinking about getting a digital scanner. I currently have a few old scanners which need updated so I can hear my local fire and ambulance as I was told they went digital. I see there are some other P25 going on and wondering if anyone could tell me if I need a phase 2 scanner or not. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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mws72

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Well the Sheriff & West Branch is P25 digital. County Roads is DMR, Fire is still analog but there is talk of going to digital.

None of the P25 activity in the area that I know of is not phase 2.
 

dwolf111

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Thank you for your quick reply. Do you think I will be ok buying a non-phase 2 scanner. I just don't want to buy a scanner and have to buy a new one one in 6 months,




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kmi8dy

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the bcd996p2 covers both p1 and p2.about 350.00 $ at amazon. if you have to buy a newer radio in say 3 to 5 years you will be paying 600.00 $. so i would be buying it now if i were you.
 
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