[FedCom] ProVoice on Fed Channels?

[Ken]

ProVoice is a type of trunking system & has nothing to do with encryption or 
digital type.  Much of the Project 25 equipment on the m/a site 
http://www.macom-wireless.com/products/p25/Default.asp can not only work in 
Pro Voice trunking but also Project 25 Trunking, EDACS trunking, & P25 
conventional .  Some also can operate in analog NFM mode.

Isn't Motorola Seneca an actual encryption method?

Don't real know why the fed would go with Pro Voice or EDACS vs the typical 
Motorola P25 trunking system BUT again there may be a technical reason. 
Unless there's many systems that go Pro Voice, I wouldn't look for a hobby 
type scanner equipment to come on the market.  Interestingly the feds seem 
to be a very large user of Sprint/Nextel's IDEN systems.

Ken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arthur-Bryan E. Phelps" <aphelps at enter.net>
To: "'Discussion of Federal Government Communications'" 
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Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 10:50 PM
Subject: RE: [FedCom] ProVoice on Fed Channels?


> Several federal agencies have awarded M/A-Com contracts for radio systems.
> So, you just might have heard a ProVoice transmission on a fed. frequency.
> By 2008 all agencies will be digital (as you surely know).  At this time, 
> no
> one knows which system will dominate. Some speculate M/A Com, others
> Motorola Seneca or some future technology that is lurking over the 
> horizon.