usswood
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I love the fact that all radios are programmed by the county number of operational use (except for state radios ) !!!!
I love the fact that all radios are programmed by the county number of operational use (except for state radios ) !!!!
Reception is very good on all my scanners, which I find rather surprising for a new P25 radio system. It looks like they got all the bugs out before they went online here (Hortonville tower). That means my G5 can be dedicated to the Hamilton County system (IDPS system 3) while my 396XT and PSR-500 can handle SAFE-T just fine.
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I programmed a friend's BCD996T (ancient scanner by digital scanner standards) with the Hendricks frequencies and talkgroups. It hears just fine sitting on a table in his Brownsburg living room using the stock back-of-set antenna. Surprised the heck out of me.If you were to go mobile and take those scanners to Boone, Hendricks, or Shelby Counties, you would find some distortion pretty quickly. Depending on where you are in relation to those 3 Simulcasts mileage will vary as to performance.
All that needs done once that happens is an quick OTAP or touch to ISP D52 radios and golden!
Question from the East Coast: most of the counties out here are rapidly moving to 700mhz Phase II systems and are going full encryption for LE. I lost my county last week after 44 years.
I'm tempted to dump all 7 of my scanners onto the market, but I'm planning to relocate to Indiana in the next few years, so I'm willing to wait. My current stash will do SAFE-T digital fine.
My question is: I see this is brand new switch-over and no one can predict the future (especially when it comes to Govt.) but is there any indication that Hoosier SAFE-T will go 700mhz or Phase II in the future? And what is the feeling regarding Encryption in Indiana?
My apologies for barging into an out of state discussion.
Phase II begins implementation by 2020. There will be 700 MHz sites over time and 700 MHz talkaround is already in the radios on the p25. Encryption is actually pretty limited compared to many systems.
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I'm actually seeing somewhat the opposite of that. I'm on a hill so I have always been able to monitor a pretty decent number of sites with just an RS800. All of these CC's that were solid on the old system are still solid...and a couple that were very iffy and weather-dependent before have become fairly solid as well. I guess "YMMV" would be appropriate here.I have noticed a reduction in range on the control channels. A few towers that I was able to monitor consistently on the old system can no longer be picked up.