with P25 you can get partial packets which some people describe as sounding 
like R2D2.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Gammon
Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2015 2:07 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: P-25 audio?

Right you are Pat.  I think the garble comes from just not
getting a strong enough signal.  I thought digital would either
be on or off, but evidently there's a mid state where you get
some packets but not enough for the radio to decode.  I hope the
real rigs the cops etc.  use sound better than the commercial
scanners.  Jim WA6EKS

----- Original Message -----
From: Pat Byrne <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 10:18:39 -0600
Subject: Re: P-25 audio?

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
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73 Dustin KF5VXR


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