Actually not very likely at this point. The system is at about the halfway point in its lifespan (if I recall correctly, service by Moneyrola is guaranteed out to 2037); switching to phase II would require many millions to upgrade system hardware, and lay a heavy burden on subscribers to upgrade or replace radios.
The system has been around for years; if they haven’t done it by now it’s unlikely they will. If they did, it would take quite awhile to complete, so an inexpensive used “starter” scanner is a perfectly reasonable alternative.
It's still a possibility, our state system is possibly gonna do this at some point, and testing it on 2 sites, possibly more, but I believe at least 2. If they are p1 rn and unless they just stay p1 forever or switch systems, which I doubt they would, because that wud be more expensive to change a complete whole state system to something completely different than just switch to p2.. my opinion is that eventually they will change.
But I'm not there I don't know it's just my opinion, and it's mostly based on my state and seems even local county's around me are going P2. So to me id rather be future capable and not be stuck with a scanner that might not work down the road to something I want to listen to. Again it's just my opinion, and he can choose what he think will work best if that's a p2 scanner, cool, if p1 scanner that's cool to.
I asked Google about the cheapest is that 160DN says says232-250$ and guess it don't trunk track but Whistler 1040 and it's like 360$ , and like 80 more bucks u can get a p2 scanner... That's new though if he buys used then it can be way cheaper and that's just Google ai I didn't actually shop around at Whistler, uniden etc so it might be off, I realize some don't got money I myself am one of those. I guess we gave some options and he can figure it out what he thinks will work best for him
