and in that time period encryption could be rampant and not even able to listen to your local dog catcher. I and others believe the hobby is going to be extinct of listening to police and fire or technology will make it too expensive for the average joe to purchase. If Ohio has plans for Phase II, then it will more than likely happen, look what they have done so far. It wasn't that many years ago we were on Low band, it went BYE BYE completely! I can;t tell you how much money Ive thrown at scanners in a lifetime only to find that tech obsolete, lets see, tuneable, crystals, first programmable, trunking, yet technology is still outpacing the ability to monitor, IE ProVice. Only time will tell