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[mattnelson26]

well the rummors has it the gre america is gone. does anyone know who is all make in scanners with p25 on them?

i know of uniden. but is there anyone else?

thanks,
matt

[Spitfire8520]

Originally Posted by mattnelson26

well the rummors has it the gre america is gone.

Incorrect, It's only a rumor started up by a former GRE employees. GRE is only experiencing a manufacturing issue.

GRE America Information Thread

Originally Posted by mattnelson26

does anyone know who is all make in scanners with p25 on them?

i know of uniden. but is there anyone else?

Nope, Uniden would be the only company making a P25 SCANNER if GRE went away (which they have not). I think there are some receivers that do P25 decoding, no trucking, but that's a whole new category that I'm unfamiliar with.

[Boatanchor]

Depends on your definition of scanner.
I run an Icom R2500 comms receiver with a P25 board fitted and it has by far the best P25 audio out of any of my radios and scanners. AOR also make a P25 board for some of their high end receivers. Both the Icom and AOR scan but don't 'trunk track' unfortunately.

Of course, another option is the USB TV dongle SDR/DSD route, although it is early days for these systems, they will get more polished as time goes by and more developers get on board the SDR bandwagon. This may be the biggest threat to the Uniden and GRE scanners of the world..
Why buy a $500 digital scanner, when you can plug a $100 funcube dongle receiver into your little 7" notebook and start receiving DC to >1Ghz in all conceivable analogue and digital modes?

Interesting times, to be sure..