I monitor the forums here everyday for years and what I see happening is this:
More and more agencies all over the country are encrypting their transmissions.
This means no matter what scanner you buy you are losing your favorite channels day by day.
Soon enough there will be so little Police, Fire, EMT etc. in the clear that our hobby will come to a close.
The big radio manufacturers like uniden and whistler are trying to combat this by offering DMR uodates.
This is just a ploy to stall the slow demise of our hobby.
The sudden new ability to monitor such exciting agencies like car services, oil companies, public utilities,
garbage trucks etc will never over ride the fact that once a channels encrypts we can never hear it again.
So lets stop talking about DMR as if it will save our hobby.
Technology has finally screwed us all.
any comments?
More and more agencies all over the country are encrypting their transmissions.
This means no matter what scanner you buy you are losing your favorite channels day by day.
Soon enough there will be so little Police, Fire, EMT etc. in the clear that our hobby will come to a close.
The big radio manufacturers like uniden and whistler are trying to combat this by offering DMR uodates.
This is just a ploy to stall the slow demise of our hobby.
The sudden new ability to monitor such exciting agencies like car services, oil companies, public utilities,
garbage trucks etc will never over ride the fact that once a channels encrypts we can never hear it again.
So lets stop talking about DMR as if it will save our hobby.
Technology has finally screwed us all.
any comments?