RE:

Yup, the police in my city use cellphones, and anybody can tell you they wo=
rk quite well for keeping private. Our EDACS system has shifted 3 out of 13=
 frequencies to digital and has been under training and testing.=20

Except the P25 Homeland security mandating it, there is no need to add mill=
ions of dollars of more equipment and annual software and system support co=
sts to our broke city's budget. Digital radio has proved to be very problem=
atic in many cities who use it, including contributing to the unecessary de=
aths of two firefighters who lost digital communication because it works th=
at way when all conditions aren't *perfect*.=20

I still use my 245 at home and my 246t while away. They have been great rad=
ios and I don't look forward to retiring them because of a motorola P25 mon=
opoly. If all the emergency folks had a way to trunk their cellphones, they=
'd have everything and we would never scan them. Also not scannable is CAD =
that all patrol cars here use for image information, such as suspect photos=
 and documents. At least, I don't know how to scan it. I know there are vid=
eo scanners, but I'm not going there. I doubt they can capture CAD data.

--- On Mon, 4/11/11, Peter Duffy <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Peter Duffy <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [BC245XLT]
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, April 11, 2011, 3:13 PM
> True, many police in the U.S.
> dispatch digital now but if it needs to be
> encrypted or at least "protected by law" they break out the
> cell phone or
> input on the mobile computer.=A0 I have heard them go
> encrypted (including the
> military) and then dump it for general conversations. Some
> areas do go
> encrypted but when things go in the dumpster they have to
> keep going back to
> something everyone can talk to each other on and that is
> proving to be when
> mistakes are made about what should be open or not.=A0 I
> think in the future
> digital radios and cell phones will meet in the middle but
> I could be all
> wet.=A0 Wouldn't be the first time.
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> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf
> Of David Smart
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 5:53 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [BC245XLT]
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> I always liked the 245XLT, but the ground is shifting away
> from it. Almost=20
> everything I want to listen to is digital these days here
> (Sydney), so I=20
> have a 396. About all that's left non-digital that I listen
> to is air=20
> frequencies.
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> Unfortunately, the police went to digital but then to
> encryption.=20
> Fortunately, no one else has encrypted.
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> Regards, Dave S
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> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: "Peter Duffy" <[email protected]
> <mailto:pduffy211%40cox.net> >
> To: <[email protected]
> <mailto:BC245XLT%40yahoogroups.com> >
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 7:26 AM
> Subject: RE: [BC245XLT]
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> Try something good=20
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> > Spam is that stuff that when my big brother put it in
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> > By the way, I'm still using and playing with my
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> using the Freescan
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> search. Lot to
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> > From: [email protected]
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> <mailto:BC245XLT%40yahoogroups.com> ] On
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> > --- On Mon, 4/11/11, S S <[email protected]
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> >> From: S S <[email protected]
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