Back from the future

[scanmanmi]

I used my friends time machine and went into the future and took my scanner so I could sell it for some future cash. When I asked if anyone wanted to buy my police scanner they said "What? All cops were encrypted long ago."

 

[mule1075]

????

 

[mmckenna]

I used my friends time machine and went into the future and took my scanner so I could sell it for some future cash.

Maybe it's just me, but if my friend let me borrow his/her time machine, I'd probably just picked up winning lotto numbers and not have been dinking around with scanners.

When I asked if anyone wanted to buy my police scanner they said "What? All cops were encrypted long ago."

"End of the hobby!" "I'm selling all my gear!"
Over generalized statements don't work well. Many agencies will stay analog, not everyone can afford (or wants to) go digital.

But if you want to send your scanner to me, I'll be happy to dispose of it properly.

 

[12dbsinad]

"End of the hobby!" "I'm selling all my gear!"
Over generalized statements don't work well. Many agencies will stay analog, not everyone can afford (or wants to) go digital.

You'll be hard pressed to find any larger community "stay" analog. Even if still conventional. The smaller communities now have a slew of cheaper digital like Mototrbo, NXDN, and DMR.

Do you remember the word Interop?? After 9/11? We are now going backwards contrary to all that P25 grant money that was spent. THAT is going to be the saving grace of analog. I kind of think you may see more links and patches to it as time marches on.

 

[mmckenna]

I'm fortunate that -every- public safety agency (as well as every public works) in my county has stayed VHF analog.
Part of it is lack of funding. Who am I fooling, all of it is lack of funding. Lots of small agencies, rugged terrain for 80% of the county, limited infrastructure, lack of money buckets, it all adds up to nothing really changing for the foreseeable future. Even CalFire is staying analog for the foreseeable future. No way to replace all that gear. Even if they tried, P25 will probably be dead and buried by the time they finished.

Sometimes technology gets pushed too far. Sure, there are "neat" things it can do, but if you don't need that cool function, the older stuff works well. I'm really hoping that starts to catch on in smaller agencies. With federal funding not as prevalent as it was 10 years ago, I'm betting the rush to digital is going to slow a bit, or at least shift from P25 to something more reasonably priced. Keeping interop frequencies analog is a great first step.
Sure, digital trunked systems work great where it makes sense to deploy them, but that doesn't work everywhere.

 

[12dbsinad]

Sometimes technology gets pushed too far. Sure, there are "neat" things it can do, but if you don't need that cool function, the older stuff works well. I'm really hoping that starts to catch on in smaller agencies. With federal funding not as prevalent as it was 10 years ago, I'm betting the rush to digital is going to slow a bit, or at least shift from P25 to something more reasonably priced. Keeping interop frequencies analog is a great first step.
Sure, digital trunked systems work great where it makes sense to deploy them, but that doesn't work everywhere.

I couldn't agree more with these statements. Glad to hear your area spends it's money sensibly. Around here, once the radio vendors start throwing the words like digital, RoIP, digital trunking, and now Firstnet sending salesman around about "radio systems", they'll go with bald tires on the apparatus to buy these things. No joke.

 

[spongella]

"Give me analog or give me death."

 

[pinballwiz86]

Give me wide-band digital! HD P25.