Do I need a new scanner?

[dktmman]

Recently I have been unable to receive radio transmissions from Sunnyvale DPS. I can hear dispatch but not mobile units.
Also, I can no longer pick up anything from Sunnyvale Fire.

After learning of and reading as much as I could regarding Sunnyvale DPS transitioning to a new radio system along with Santa Clara (and possibly more agencies) I am still unclear on when the new system will be 100% implemented and if my 20 year old Realistic 10 channel programmable scanner will be able to pick up the radio transmissions.
Will I need a new/modern trunking style pre-programmed scanner unit with a gazillion channels and SD cards and with bluetooth/wifi/smartphone USB megadata decoder synchronized de-scrambler.....
just to listen to Fire & PD?

Thank you

 

[kmh603]

Yes you need a Phase 2 digital scanner. Soon all of the Bay Area Police and Fire will be on 760 MHz band. Be ready to pay around $500 for that scanner.

 

[dktmman]

kmh603 Thank you for the reply.
Yeah, after lookin' around I kinda figured it'd cost me 500 or so to resume listening to SVDPS.

My next thread will be looking for recommendations for a new user friendly high tech scanner.

 

[fmalloy]

Geez it wasn't all that long ago where we needed new scanners because everything moved to Motorola trunked and I had to learn all about that, now its P25 Phase 2 digital...

Ok, what's comes next then, besides the big "E"?

Give me back the days where you plugged in 10 crystals and that was the extent of it.

 

[scannerbuff999]

you need to get a bcd436hp or a whistler 1080

 

[dktmman]

I went with the 1080

 

[Otto]

For a user friendly scanner that can do Phase II, the HP-2 will also monitor this system. But yeah, it's also a $500 scanner.

 

[Otto]

Geez it wasn't all that long ago where we needed new scanners because everything moved to Motorola trunked and I had to learn all about that, now its P25 Phase 2 digital...

Ok, what's comes next then, besides the big "E"?

Give me back the days where you plugged in 10 crystals and that was the extent of it.

Sorry man, those days are LOOOOOOONNNGG Gone...