hfxchris. yes i'm aware the discussion is about next generation scanner's. the technical reason's regarding the fto limitation's will still remain unchanged. just like with all the question's/comment's regarding the decoding of tetra,mototrbo,encryption etc. not trying to be curt,just trying to be factual. i could state the reason's why this will remain unchanged,but they have been discussed ad nauseam. about the only work around for doing fto and scanning is 2 scanner's.
Oh I've heard all of these excuses before as well, although I've never heard anybody liken decoding a simple tone to decoding mototrbo, tetra or encryption before, that's certainly a first.
Funny though, you can put the scanner into weather alert priority mode, and
while it's scanning your enabled systems and groups, it'll stop to check the wx frequency every 5 seconds for a 1050 Hz tone, all without the use of a second receiver. And yet it can't scan a handful of frequencies (and just a handful of frequencies, nothing else) looking for an A tone.
Of course it can do the wx alert priority thing because the 1050 Hz tone lasts longer than 5 seconds, so it's a pretty certain bet that it'll pick it up if it's checking for it every 5 seconds. Where as the A tone in a two tone paging system is what, 1 second? And if it's only scanning 5 or 6 frequencies, how long does it take to scan those? Not 1 second that's for sure. The chances of it receiving the A tone and successfully decoding that tone before the B tone is quite good I would imagine.
I believe Uniden's reasoning is that there's a
chance that it might miss a tone out. Well of course there's a chance it'll miss it, just like there's a chance I'll miss the police dispatching a break and enter call while I'm listening to a paramedic giving a status report to a hospital. That's all part of scanning, we all know it and we all are able to live with it. If not missing a fire tone out is that crucial, then you should invest in a Minitor pager and have it setup correctly.
(sorry for the rant)
