[FedCom] AOR P25 decoder

[S. Schappert]

G'day FC,

Why would one buy a scanner, when one owns, for example, an Icom R8500.  The ARD25 is not cheap, in fact one could purchase a scanner with the P25 card for almost the same price as the ARD25.

If you examine the technical data, and performance is a requirement, then one might justify the additional expense.  You also have to remember that scanning and surveillance are two different requirements.  Trunking adds a different variable, as the ARD25, out of the box, does not work.  It is clearly application driven, IMHO.

Regards,

-Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: bpckty1 <bpckty1 at mindspring.com>
Sent: Dec 11, 2005 2:05 PM
To: Discussion of Federal Government Communications <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [FedCom] AOR P25 decoder

Perhaps it is the quest, the challenge...

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Dec 11, 2005 2:08 PM
To: "S. Schappert" <scottsch at ix.netcom.com>, Discussion of Federal Government Communications <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [FedCom] AOR P25 decoder

I still don't see why you wouldn't just buy an APCO capable scanner. I'm 
not sure what extra digital information you get beyond what trunker 
displays.

I can seen the remote possibility where there is some distant APCO 
signal that an ICOM or AOR can pick up that a Uniden or GRE can't. I 
know from monitoring the Nevada Test Site that trunker can follow a 
control signal in cases where a scanner can't, but how many facilities 
have such repeaters that remote?

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Scott Schappert