I was shopping for radios for a buddy of mine who owns a process service/security company in Sherman a few weeks ago. Talked to Megahertz about the Howe tower and while the airtime was quite reasonable the equipment wasn't. An XPR7525e was a grand any way you cut it. Sent him to Motorola who sold him the WAVE stuff and solved the problem. But I got to thinking, did I just contribute to the death of the scanner?
The Motorola APX Next seems to be the future of Public Safety radio. The NEXT utilizes 4G LTE over both cloud and FirstNet with radio (RF) functions. The bat wings even built an assistant, ViQi to replace the human dispatcher at some point. With this explosion in POC (Push over Cellular) are we seeing the Scanner "End times"?
Fannin County Sheriff recently moved to Motorola M CORE and only use the traditional repeater when they can't connect to the virtual network. For the most part they are conducting their day to day operations on a Virtual trunked system the scanner is deaf to. Fannin isn't rich or bright so if they are doing this others have to be also. How long before the rural communities jump on the WAVE and move to virtual or WiFi based radio networks?
I almost wonder if voting against Trump would open more scanner doors (Kicks self for that thought) ....
The Motorola APX Next seems to be the future of Public Safety radio. The NEXT utilizes 4G LTE over both cloud and FirstNet with radio (RF) functions. The bat wings even built an assistant, ViQi to replace the human dispatcher at some point. With this explosion in POC (Push over Cellular) are we seeing the Scanner "End times"?
Fannin County Sheriff recently moved to Motorola M CORE and only use the traditional repeater when they can't connect to the virtual network. For the most part they are conducting their day to day operations on a Virtual trunked system the scanner is deaf to. Fannin isn't rich or bright so if they are doing this others have to be also. How long before the rural communities jump on the WAVE and move to virtual or WiFi based radio networks?
I almost wonder if voting against Trump would open more scanner doors (Kicks self for that thought) ....