apco25 in delaware

[money911]

Hello,
i am new to the board here. i live in wilmington but goto school in philly. i was looking into getting a scanner. i have been looking into the Uniden BC246T. i want to be able to get dispatches and some convos. i noticed that some of delawares agencies are using the apco 25 system. I was hoping someone could explain to me the apco25 system in delaware.


also i am trying to figure out if the only useful scanner to use in delaware is a $500 digital trunking scanner.

Any help to a newbie would be great!

thanks james

 

[jjrii]

You will need a $500.00 radio to listen to police and fire in DE. Some fire is rebroadcast but police comms are not. The only exception I know of is the state police and you can hear their dispatch comms via the state website but they are the only exception.

 

[hai_akeeba]

Delaware System is a Motorola Type II smart zone system with digital audio(3600bps control channel)not a P25 system(9600 bps). You will need a Uniden 296/796 396/996 or GRE pro96 or the newer units just released.

 

[money911]

which are the newer models? i dont want to spend 500 and within the next 6 months have to get something else

 

[mtindor]

which are the newer models? i dont want to spend 500 and within the next 6 months have to get something else

GRE PSR-600 (base/mobile)
GRE PSR-500 (handheld)
Uniden BCD996T (base/mobile)
Uniden BCD396T (handheld)
Radio shack PRO-2096 (base/mobile)
Radio Shack PRO-96 (handheld)

The top two are the newest, 3 and 4 are the second newest I think and then the RS PRO-2096/96. They are all pretty much the same 'generation' of scanners - All do Motorola Analog/Digital, EDACS, LTR, P25. All will work after rebanding (if you don't know what that is - search the Wiki at http://wiki.radioreference.com). You can also find out specific information about each of the scanners above on the Wiki.

You definitely wouldn't go wrong with one of the GREs or Unidens. There is speculation that the next Radio Shack scanner may end up being a rebadged GRE. I don't think anybody has proof of that. but Radio Shack released some new lower end scanners that are actually GREs - that's why there is speculation that the next RS scanners may be rebadged PSR-500/600s.

mike

 

[DELCOLHFC]

You definitely wouldn't go wrong with one of the GREs or Unidens. There is speculation that the next Radio Shack scanner may end up being a rebadged GRE. I don't think anybody has proof of that. but Radio Shack released some new lower end scanners that are actually GREs - that's why there is speculation that the next RS scanners may be rebadged PSR-500/600s.

mike

RadioShack is just a scanner marketer not a manufacturer. The Pro-96 / 2096 as well as the Pro-97 / 2055, Pro-95, Pro-93 / 2053, Pro-92 and Pro-2067 are/were all made by GRE for RadioShack. As a matter of fact even the "classic" 2004, 2005 and 2006 were GRE's also. Uniden has made several for them also such as the Pr0-94 and Pro-2051 and many others........

 

[ka3jjz]

Hmmm...I see on the database entry that the system type is mixed - yet when I do a quick scan of the talkgroups I don't see any analog audio listed. Or is it those nasty encrypted talkgroups that throws a monkey wrench in the P25 cert?

73s and thanx...Mike

 

[hai_akeeba]

The analog is for the 911 Call and Itac channels. everything else is digital. This includes Talk 1 and Talk 2 (both digital only) that are not trunked.