n4voxgill
Silent Key
I buy a scanner for what it can do today. I don't concern myself with what it will do in 3 or 5 years. With Motorola now buying up MESH networks I feel sure that in a couple of years that technology will hit the streets, it does not use the old fashion system of radio towers and you will have to be in close range to hear the users. I also see that Transcrypt International can now sell digital encryption that will work on analog systems. Then there is software defined radios on the horizon. I suggest you Google Cognitive radio and see what the FCC and many private companies have to say about it. It will greatly impact SDR.
I also suggest you go to the following site:
http://werbach.com/docs/RadioRevolution.pdf
and read about the radio revolution. Folks we "ain't" seen nothing yet.
There will be proposals to go to TDMA and for someone to build a radio system knowing that there is going to be excess capacity between the time packets, so they will sell this time maybe a local government. It could even be vice versa. Up until the time Nextel volunteered to pay out a billion to re-align the 800 band, and a billion for NASCAR racing I didn't see the abolition of government or private radio systems. But the problem today is inefficiency and regulation. Money and the private sector will certainly impact communications in the future. Cities don't put in their own telephone systems, so why should they own their own radio systems when it can be provided just as cheaply by someone else.
Who knows what the future holds, but enjoy what we have today, because it is certainly going to be different tommorrow. I can see a policeman with a cellphone type radio, talking and sending a picture of the suspect at the same time.
I also suggest you go to the following site:
http://werbach.com/docs/RadioRevolution.pdf
and read about the radio revolution. Folks we "ain't" seen nothing yet.
There will be proposals to go to TDMA and for someone to build a radio system knowing that there is going to be excess capacity between the time packets, so they will sell this time maybe a local government. It could even be vice versa. Up until the time Nextel volunteered to pay out a billion to re-align the 800 band, and a billion for NASCAR racing I didn't see the abolition of government or private radio systems. But the problem today is inefficiency and regulation. Money and the private sector will certainly impact communications in the future. Cities don't put in their own telephone systems, so why should they own their own radio systems when it can be provided just as cheaply by someone else.
Who knows what the future holds, but enjoy what we have today, because it is certainly going to be different tommorrow. I can see a policeman with a cellphone type radio, talking and sending a picture of the suspect at the same time.
