[FedCom] ProVoice on Fed Channels?

[Arthur-Bryan E. Phelps]

Motorola encryption is provided by Harris Communications on the Seneca
radios.  I'd have to go through my notes to actually give more specifics. 

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Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 6:06 PM
To: Discussion of Federal Government Communications
Subject: Re: [FedCom] ProVoice on Fed Channels?

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

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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?


> Commencing about 2 year's ago, 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,
> although highly unlikely. 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.


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