I think that video should be made into a sticky!
Any new scanners in the making?
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I believe you're assigning waaaay more value to it than it deserves.
KF6ORX
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I think you were looking at the Unicorn Forum.
eorange
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So a G4/G5 can:
- Follow control channels
- Scan trunked P25 systems
- Display Alpha tags for TGIDs and RIDs
- Scan Multi Site systems
- Lock out TGIDs
- Hold on a channel
- Set a Delay time
- Organize systems into zones
- Scan conventional systems (G5)
- Import data from RadioReference
- Record Audio
But remember...it's only a voice pager.
Or is it?
- Follow control channels
- Scan trunked P25 systems
- Display Alpha tags for TGIDs and RIDs
- Scan Multi Site systems
- Lock out TGIDs
- Hold on a channel
- Set a Delay time
- Organize systems into zones
- Scan conventional systems (G5)
- Import data from RadioReference
- Record Audio
But remember...it's only a voice pager.
Or is it?
doctordialtone
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THAT is a great question. I can tell you anecdotally that it's relatively fast, but I cannot find anthing in their literature.
What, pray tell, does this have to do with "Any new scanners in the making?"
eorange
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It's designed to expand people's thinking as they debate if Unication is going to produce a scanner. Maybe it's already here, evolving.
Hit_Factor
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I guess you missed the irony of ' But remember...it's only a voice pager'. It's really no fun if you have to explain the joke.
This is my new favorite thread!
So I heard there is a new scanner coming out in third quarter '21.
And it was invented by Al Gore. He was so successful with the Internet, he decided to move on to something else.
NC1
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Whatever it is, I hope we can listen in on the cell phone calls like we used to do back in the late 80's and early 90's.
Hit_Factor
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The scanner in my cruiser picked up wireless phones on occasion. It was a lot of fun hearing people talk about the police car in their driveway. They often explained what they did and how the cops could never prove it.Whatever it is, I hope we can listen in on the cell phone calls like we used to do back in the late 80's and early 90's.
Dreamflight767
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Sorry. Wasn't looking to cause a debate. I look through the forums but things sometimes get spread out or go quiet after time. No big deal. Simple "Nope" would have sufficed. We can lock this now.
N8IAA
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Ha Ha Ha! What did you think was going to happen? The question has been asked since the new Unidens came out.
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You have nothing to be sorry about. The question does come up from time to time but it is a legitimate, well intended question.
Sometimes a question on RR is answered with a simple nope and there are only two or three posts before it drops out of the queue but this topic is a loaded question.
It's a lively debate and you'll see most of the reactions are people saying I'm LMAO.
It's all about any new scanner introduced by whoever has to handle simulcast distortion secondary to LSM.
One company has done that with a portable and a base but very unfortunately the designer and production manager passed. There hasn't been a firmware update since April 15th 2019.
The other major scanner company inherited their radios from another scanner company who's designer is no longer around even though at one time was a public figure here on RR. They attempted to make a radio that was simulcast distortion capable but decided it was best not to deliver. Although some people claim they get good results with simulcast distortion with their present long in the tooth radios many users don't get satisfactory results on tdma Phase 2 systems whatsoever. Other than the simulcast shortcomings the radio's still have merit. They were my favorite way back when we used type II smartzone systems before P2.
You have a professional pager that gets excellent simulcast performance but lacked the versatility that a scanner has. That company is very proactive with improvements and upgrades to bring it closer to being more like a scanner but it's not totally there yet.
There are also other wonderful superior receivers out there but they don't trunk track.
No one knows what's going to happen or what the business models are of these companies given the cost of R&D and the uncertainty of rapid encryption across the country.
It's always going to be a healthy, active discussion
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Unfortunately that's never going to happen with today's cell phones but I do certainly remember in the late 80s cutting that diode on my GRE made Radio Shack Pro 2004 and although it didn't trunk track there were so few phones you could hear both sides of the conversation on the 800 megahertz conventional phones. First comes the call to the wife, going to be working late tonight, don't wait up and then the booty call, I'm on my way over sweetie. LOL.Whatever it is, I hope we can listen in on the cell phone calls like we used to do back in the late 80's and early 90's.
Hit_Factor
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Can you please cite an official company announcement, or is this just more pointless speculation?
Thanks in advance.
I think you were looking at the Unicorn Forum.
Never was pointless speculation.
Scanner
Scanner radio monitoring is becoming a smaller and smaller niche market as more and more agencies (including my county at the beginning of next week) are moving to newer systems which are harder to properly track & include encryption (yeah the dirty "E" word certain groups frown upon talking about) The interest simply isn't there anymore like it was back in Radioshack's heyday when everyone was analog. We serious hobbyists are a select few. Not to mention the effects of the pandemic on our global economy
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