Completely agree Jim.  I get that garbled stuff as well and wondered 
if that wasn't some sort of encryption.  Maybe just garble!  Chicago 
P D is still running UHF analog and it is sure easy to understand!  I 
wonder if my scanner needs a better antena than the whip on the back, 
but don't know what to look for.  Something inside - not going to 
bore a hole through the brick for that!!  Not to sound like an old 
fart, which I guess I am, but it is a wonderful time for technology 
but hard to keep up!
PatAt 10:02 AM 11/28/2015, you wrote:
>Yah Pat, we have P-25 here too and sometimes it's just a bunch of
>garble, you know, like Greta Garble, smile.  But, it is what it
>is, whatever that means so we must live with it and hope they
>don't just all go encrypted! Jim WA6EKS
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Pat Byrne <[log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date sent: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 09:33:29 -0600
>Subject: Re: New Kenwood? what new Kenwood?
>
>And what concerns me Jim is which digital protocole will
>survive?  Yaesu has theirs and of course, Icom has Dstar, and
>perhaps
>that's not all the entries.  And our local police are a part of a
>Motorola, state-wide P25 system and I struggle to hear what is
>being
>said.  These old ears don't hear all that well any more, even
>with
>overpriced hearing aids!
>Pat, K9JAUAt 02:12 AM 11/28/2015, you wrote:
>Oh, well I for one am not yet interested in digital radio.  I
>wonder if it will develop into a flap like when, in the fifties,
>people were changing from AM to SSB? Yes I know digital offers
>infinitely more possibilities than that transition,  but it is
>still worth investigating before jumping into it particularly
>because of the accessibility questions that so often plague blind
>folks these days.  73, Jim WA6EKS
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>From: Dustin Thompson <[log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date sent: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 02:04:07 -0600
>Subject: Re: New Kenwood? what new Kenwood?
>
>The DStar trip bander, or that's was the word at a ham convention
>and the DS=
>tar mailing list...=20
>
>73 Dustin KF5VXR
>
>
>   On Nov 28, 2015, at 1:56 AM, Jim Gammon <[log in to unmask]
>wrote:
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