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APCO-25 "Capable" Scanners Inquiry

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I am not a novice to the hobby, however I have not yet had the opportunity to play with the newer breed of these APCO-25 digital trunking scanning receivers from Uniden and Radio Shack.

Does APCO-25 "capable" only pertain to the digital trunking mode or are the scanning receivers capable of receiving, mixing and production of a final analog output (intelligent voice) from a received F2E & F1E type emission signal transmitted on an individual "conventional" non-trunked frequency?

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I know the Uniden BC796D with the P25 card installed can do trunked and conventional P25 intelligible non-scrambled voice decoding.

F2E? Isn't P25 voice F1E?

There are other capable radios but I have only used the 796D.


zoso4zep said:
I am not a novice to the hobby, however I have not yet had the opportunity to play with the newer breed of these APCO-25 digital trunking scanning receivers from Uniden and Radio Shack.

Does APCO-25 "capable" only pertain to the digital trunking mode or are the scanning receivers capable of receiving, mixing and production of a final analog output (intelligent voice) from a received F2E & F1E type emission signal transmitted on an individual "conventional" non-trunked frequency?

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zoso4zep said:
Does APCO-25 "capable" only pertain to the digital trunking mode or are the scanning receivers capable of receiving, mixing and production of a final analog output (intelligent voice) from a received F2E & F1E type emission signal transmitted on an individual "conventional" non-trunked frequency?
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They all do conventional as well as trunked. LAPD, for example, is UHF T-band conventional, not trunked, digital. Hundreds of us hereabouts listen in with Radio Shack and/or Uniden models.
 
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RE: APCO-12 "Capable" Scanners Inquiry

Thanks for the replies. That brings clarification.
 
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Just a minor additional point. Scanner lingo is not necessarily the same as radio tech lingo, even when the same companies make scanners and commercial radios.

P25 covers a lot of ground. For a scanner, it means both the ability to decode any Project 25 compliant CAI voice channel, whether trunked or conventional, and the ability to track a Project 25 compliant high-speed trunking control channel.
 
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