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trunkerman63
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Any more, due to the growing complexity and mumbledy jumble of scanner monitoring, I can truthfully say the Pro 433 scanner is going to be the last and only radio I will ever own.
The more I read about these digital radios, the less I want to do with it. I mostly lurk here now, don't know enough about what everyone is talking about to participate anyway.
By what I read, if you want to go digital, you are going to be out at least $500.00 for the radio alone, then you have to buy software and cable to program it. I wonder what was so wrong with just having a radio you could punch in frequencies and hit "enter"? That was too easy. Each time the radio manufacturers come out with something to try to keep up with law enforcement's efforts to keep the public from hearing what they say, and a select few electronics geniuses figure out how to set the radios up, law enforcement goes another step, and the whole process starts all over again.
I couldn't even set this 433 up by the "retarded" Shack manual. I had to have a guy walk me through setting up the trunking for Abilene EDACS, by long distance phone! I doubt it will be long before all law enforcement does as the DPS is doing, do it all by computer. Then where all all the digital scanners be? I know of nothing that can pick up computer communications in your living room.
On my dinasaur 433, I can still get Taylor Co. analog, Callahan Co., all the VFD's, local and out of town ambulance calls. I have lots of stuff I can still get and enjoy hearing. Nah, this new technology ran off and left me long ago. I'm an old dog with the old school way of scanner monitoring, and it will be all I need.
This new stuff and the tons of headaches that go with it all, plus empyting a bank account to get it all going, I can do without.
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The more I read about these digital radios, the less I want to do with it. I mostly lurk here now, don't know enough about what everyone is talking about to participate anyway.
By what I read, if you want to go digital, you are going to be out at least $500.00 for the radio alone, then you have to buy software and cable to program it. I wonder what was so wrong with just having a radio you could punch in frequencies and hit "enter"? That was too easy. Each time the radio manufacturers come out with something to try to keep up with law enforcement's efforts to keep the public from hearing what they say, and a select few electronics geniuses figure out how to set the radios up, law enforcement goes another step, and the whole process starts all over again.
I couldn't even set this 433 up by the "retarded" Shack manual. I had to have a guy walk me through setting up the trunking for Abilene EDACS, by long distance phone! I doubt it will be long before all law enforcement does as the DPS is doing, do it all by computer. Then where all all the digital scanners be? I know of nothing that can pick up computer communications in your living room.
On my dinasaur 433, I can still get Taylor Co. analog, Callahan Co., all the VFD's, local and out of town ambulance calls. I have lots of stuff I can still get and enjoy hearing. Nah, this new technology ran off and left me long ago. I'm an old dog with the old school way of scanner monitoring, and it will be all I need.
This new stuff and the tons of headaches that go with it all, plus empyting a bank account to get it all going, I can do without.
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