Digital vs. Analog

**Patuba** · 10-25-2005, 12:27 PM

I'm just curious. How do you tell if your State LEO is using digital vs. analog?

I looked at RadioReference.com in the database but I don't know what to look for.

Can someone help me out?

Thanks,

**Iknox** · 10-25-2005, 03:27 PM

where u from?

**crazyVOLVOrob** · 10-25-2005, 03:37 PM

Analog and it's not even trunked

NY state police got to love them...

Back at home the suffolk county PD use a trunked system Motorola type II

**Patuba** · 10-25-2005, 04:26 PM

I live in Nebraska. But drive in Colorado, Iowa, Misouri and Minnesota as well.

**crazyVOLVOrob** · 10-25-2005, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by Patuba

I live in Nebraska. But drive in Colorado, Iowa, Misouri and Minnesota as well.

NE uses low VHF and UHF...analog system not even trunked

CO uses high VHF....analog

IA uses high VHF...analog

MO uses high and low VHF and UHF....analog

MN uses high VHF...analog

Generally speaking if the frequenies are in 800Mhz it's either trunked or digital

**Patuba** · 10-25-2005, 05:58 PM

Very cool.

Thanks a million!!! Now I won't have to save up for a $500+ scanner.

**crazyVOLVOrob** · 10-25-2005, 06:13 PM

Rumor has it that we will soon be going digital but i think it is going to take longer than most people think...Just get a trunking scanner and you should be good

**Road Warrior** · 10-26-2005, 02:19 AM

Originally Posted by crazyVOLVOrob

Originally Posted by Patuba

I live in Nebraska. But drive in Colorado, Iowa, Misouri and Minnesota as well.

NE uses low VHF and UHF...analog system not even trunked

CO uses high VHF....analog

IA uses high VHF...analog

MO uses high and low VHF and UHF....analog

MN uses high VHF...analog

Generally speaking if the frequenies are in 800Mhz it's either trunked or digital

Digital way more expensive than analog, obviously... Ontario is mostly, if not all, digital... tax in Ontario is 15%... just an out-of-the-blue comment on how high taxes help enforcement agencies buy expensive technology :roll:

**GTO_04** · 11-09-2005, 08:49 PM

Minnesota is starting to implement a digital system. Digital is the wave of the future. Homeland Security grants are making this possible and it's happening fast.

The digital systems are having a lot of growing pains. If I was a LEO I would not want to trust my life to a digital system just yet. Too many "dead spots" where there is no radio coverage. The one nice thing about digital is that there is no static in the system. But marginal signals will simply not be heard rather than being heard with some noise.

GTO_04