Home Patrol Scanner
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It is a great scanner, versatile. If your area has simulcast issues it does not do well in that environment. A lot depends on the system. I love mine and have it in my car. Does everything I want and need it to do.
I travel a lot and simulcast is becoming more prevalent so I switched my primary scanner from 436 to the SDS series. I have a 200 for the car and a 100 for everything else. I had Jon Wienke install the GPS in the 100. My biggest concern was the simulcast. Nothing but the SDS series will handle simulcast AND scan.
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Oh my, good thing you didn't buy anything. Police dispatch and the three Tac channels for Meriden Connecticut are full-time encryption.
The state of Connecticut recently switched over or is in the process of switching over to a tdma Phase 2 Statewide system for State Police Etc.
If I could recommend, go to the Connecticut state forum and confirm your hometowns full-time encryption. See if there's any talk of them switching over to the Statewide system. Do your homework, before you spend a dime.
It's got the best ears out of my 4 digitals
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But it doesn't pick up encryption LOL
And the others do??
I have a Uniden SDS 100 and it's great too,but I was looking into the Home Patrol and it looks more complicated. The SDS 100 was/is a bit of a learning curve but the HP looks like you have to enter each system...??
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The original poster is asking about getting a 436 and wanted reviews and comments. I asked him where he lived and looked up his hometown which... of course he would want to listen to and told him his police dispatch and 3 secondary police channels are full-time encrypted. We haven't heard from him since.
Another poster made a positive comment and endorsed the 436... I made a well-intended joke regarding his endorsement. -Shrug- perhaps just a failure to communicate on my part. No offense meant to anybody here. And that goes for the bcd436 also... whew.
Sorry I thought the post was about the Home Patrol model. I replied hoping to get more info on the programming and so on. I like the Extreme kit you can purchase.
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I own a 436 and a HP-2, I like them both but if I had to choose one it would definitely be the 436.
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