Scanning in Schaumburg

[larry718]

Hello... I live in Schaumburg and and Im goin gto get a new canner.. With all this talk about DIGITAL do I need a scanner that follows Digital? Or will a normal trunking scanner be fine? Im looking at the Pro-97 or the Pro-96 form Radio Shack

Thanks
Larry

 

[motorolax]

If you want to monitor Elk grove village you will need a digital scanner. schaumberg also has one digital talkgroup used by detectives. I would get a digital scanner as schaumberg will be going digital soon enough.

 

[JnglMassiv]

This is probably better off in the Illinois forum but here's the Schaumburg database entry. I don't have any direct knowledge of this system but it appears to be an analog trunked system. There's a bit more on the Cook County northern suburbs page. Like Motorolax said, there's probably more Astro heading your way so a digital scanner might be the way to go.

That said, I'd get a conventional trunktracker for a starter radio. Unless there's a concrete and certain plan in the very near future, I buy based on what is available NOW. You never know when that new radio is going to be introduced and prices do nothing but drop on current models.

 

[larry718]

Thanks for the info.. I will post it in the Illinois forum

 

[ResQguy]

You would think, of all the cities in the US, that Schaumburg would have the most advanced, top-of-the-line, newfangled system out there....