[FEDCOM] DHS

Chris Parris CParris2 at compuserve.com
Wed Aug 31 19:40:06 EDT 2005


>>>
 If I put in the PL and the DHS transmission is P25 will the
scanner ignore the PL
<<<

Negative! 

One of the shortcomings of the current line of digital scanners is that the
CTCSS or DCS tone decoders have priority over the P-25 stuff. So if you
program a PL tone in to the scanner, it will ignore P-25 transmissions. I'm
hoping the next generation of digital scanners will allow CTCSS, DCS or
P-25 modes, so you can have a channel with PL tone and still receive
digital...

- Chris
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Chris Parris
Fed Files Columnist
Monitoring Times Magazine
chrisparris at monitoringtimes.com





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