You would be correct Mr. N2ZGE! The reasons WHY scanners built today can do trunking modes (Motorola, EDACS,LTR etc) is because the companies that designed the systems released their protocols. Uniden BOUGHT the rights to decode thesse systems.. Basically when you buy a trunking scanner part of the money goes to the licensing
One general misconception is TRBO is some kind of ENCRYPTION AND IT'S NOT. Motorola has an added privacy feature the works with TRBO and that will never be released, just like encryption on a digital channel. However there may be a growing want for TRBO decoding
It's the same with APCO-25 digital scanners. the protocols were released so scanner manufactures could design scanners that could decode them
TRBO and NXDN (designed by Kenwood) are the next big thing ALTHOUGH since railroads and being required to switch to NXDN
Thanks Jaymatt. I just read that no current scanner has the ability to pick up/decode TRBO. Is this true? Sounds like the scanner companies are falling behind.