Well, KG shows they have a P25 signal for the Sheriff department, the schools us DMR (Mototrbo), and the rest look like they are analog.
Spotsy will be changing their system soon....in the works already swapping radios in cars and on deputies.
The State Police are working on a P25 system also which might go Phase 2 sometime in the future.
Pretty much you can use a Home patrol for scanning now but would hold off on purchasing that and think of going with the 436 or 536 for scanning since they handle all the new phase 2 crap. Even the new Whistler scanner does this.
No scanner on the market will decode DMR/ MOTOTRBO. You will need a scanner with a discriminator tap and also a PC running DSD to hear any radios using the DMR....BUUUUT once you go that route you will have to hope and pray those same folks using DMR are not on a second level of encryption as you will hear nothing.
Pretty much all I listen to on my 436 is; Spotsy PD/FD, Orange Fire, State Police and others on the STARS system and a few other agencies that are in the open right now.
I will say I was in Baltimore a few weeks ago on a vacation and their Phase 2 system was working great......but the scanner had a few issues keeping up.
Hope this helps you out a little RoyBraddy
