This may sound stupid, but I haven't used my scanner on a regular basis in quite a while up until now. I listened to it a lot through the 90's and until maybe 2003. I'm getting back into it now. Now that I'm back into it, I was greeted with trunking, making it more difficult to listen (at least I think so). Now, I learn about digital. I stumbled across an article from 2005 from Gene Hughes, the guy who wrote the "Police Call" books for Radio Shack which I loved, and he stated one reason he was giving up writing them because of digital scanning. It was making it impossible to listen like in the past because a lot of the information was now encrypted. I guess my questions are-
1- I get trunking, but why digital? How is it different than analog (in layman's terms, please)
2- Is digital really going to kill scanning? (say it ain't so!) I see Radio Shack has some pricey scanners with Digital in the title. Are these the answer? (btw when I say kill scanning I'm talking years from now, assuming that most cities and places will eventually shift to digital. Sign of the times I guess)I live in a large metro area, and love listing to police, fire, utilities and the like. It'll really be a downer if this is true.
1- I get trunking, but why digital? How is it different than analog (in layman's terms, please)
2- Is digital really going to kill scanning? (say it ain't so!) I see Radio Shack has some pricey scanners with Digital in the title. Are these the answer? (btw when I say kill scanning I'm talking years from now, assuming that most cities and places will eventually shift to digital. Sign of the times I guess)I live in a large metro area, and love listing to police, fire, utilities and the like. It'll really be a downer if this is true.