CanesFan95
Active Member
There's a lot of posts about how our digital scanners don't work well on P25 digital audio when there is Linear Simulcast Modulation (LSM). So what about this question. If you want to monitor with a REAL commercial radio like what the cops and firefighters use, how do you do it? Apparently, all the brands have their programming software rigged up to where you need a special encrypted computer file called a system key in order to program a radio to follow P25 trunking. Is there a certain brand that will just be nice and let you program without a key? Like what brand, Kenwood, Tait, Icom, EF Johnson, Harris...?
Is there anyway a hobbyist can buy a commercial radio, the software and programming cable, and get it programmed for monitoring? And how do you make it not auto-affiliate. Every so often, someone will post on here that you can use a commercial radio for P25 instead of the scanners that don't work right. But they never explain the system key problem.
Is there anyway a hobbyist can buy a commercial radio, the software and programming cable, and get it programmed for monitoring? And how do you make it not auto-affiliate. Every so often, someone will post on here that you can use a commercial radio for P25 instead of the scanners that don't work right. But they never explain the system key problem.