11-16-2012, 02:15 PM
I should have mentioned the police and fire will encrypt the car-to-car communications, but plan to broadcast the main dispatch calls in the clear ... if you have a digital scanner. There will be some overlap for some time; we're still hearing some calls from our county on our old scanner; but there are fewer and fewer.
I don't know where the neighboring county is in its inevitable transition. It's expensive; they haveta buy each volunteer firefighter a new radio.
I guess it makes sense to plug USB into it and do all the setting via computer, but I don't want to make a hobby of setting it up. I want it to just work well, kinda like my Mac.
BTW.. I remember the old days when you had to buy and install a crystal for each frequency; the scanner I bought for my car could only handle eight.
I don't know where the neighboring county is in its inevitable transition. It's expensive; they haveta buy each volunteer firefighter a new radio.
I guess it makes sense to plug USB into it and do all the setting via computer, but I don't want to make a hobby of setting it up. I want it to just work well, kinda like my Mac.
BTW.. I remember the old days when you had to buy and install a crystal for each frequency; the scanner I bought for my car could only handle eight.