Patmcc24, could you reply to my post #11, Can you answer those questions? Would the Whistler 1040 pick up what I want to listen to in the quad cities?
If the type in the
Mode column is
A, that is analog, which your WS1040 can monitor. If that letter is a
D, that is 'digital', in other words ProVoice, which the 1040 cannot decode. The only scanners that can monitor non-encrypted ProVoice are the Uniden models that can utilize the paid ProVoice upgrade.
For your county, Scott, the RACOM system is showing one Mode
D TGID for the Sheriff's Dept, for Civil deputees. This ProVoice TGID cannot be monitored (with the ws1040).
For County Fire/EMS, everything shows to be
A, analog, which the 1040 can handle. Quad Cities MEDCOM is also listed as
A, so should not be a problem.
For Davenport, PD Dispatch 1 indicates Analog (that's ok). 'Police 2' is listed both as ProVoice,
D, but also full time encryption (the upper case
E), so no way to monitor that. Event 1 is listed as
De, ProVoice with part time encryption; your ws1040 cannot monitor ProVoice, and nothing can monitor the traffic that is encrypted.
For Bettendorf, only Police 2 is listed as
D, ProVoice. While your ws1040 cannot monitor the ProVoice traffic, everything else is listed as
A, analog, which your scanner can hear.
If, at some point, these locations were transitioned to a P25 Phase II system, your 1040 could not monitor any Phase II talkgroups, which are signified by a
T in the mode column. If the system is Phase II capable, but various agencies are using Phase I talkgroups (letter
D in the mode column), you would still be able to monitor then until they upgraded to Phase II (letter
T mode).