Is 700MHz re-banding something that's currently going on anywhere these
days? No way I'm gonna invest in a digital scanner until more models
come out that address this issue w/o a major hardware upgrade!

Most of the new scanners can be flash upgraded to support any rebanding.
just read the
'features' of a scanner before you buy. Not sure about ALL scanners
especially the cheaper
ones.


"Marc" wrote in message
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Is 700MHz re-banding something that's currently going on anywhere these
days? No way I'm gonna invest in a digital scanner until more models
come out that address this issue w/o a major hardware upgrade!

I think you mean 800 MHz rebanding. And yes it is going on!

Marc wrote:

Is 700MHz re-banding something that's currently going on anywhere
these days? No way I'm gonna invest in a digital scanner until more
models come out that address this issue w/o a major hardware upgrade!


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"The RFI-EMI-GUY"©

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

"Follow The Money" ;-P

Not only do the channel numbers change, the scanner needs to now contain
and old and new channel table and be able to read the control flag that
dictates from which table to look up. Otherwise some systems that don't
get re-banded, IE the many interleaved systems, won't be able to be
received. It sounds trivial until you consider all the variables,

wrote:

On 2007-03-30, Marc wrote:


Is 700MHz re-banding something that's currently going on anywhere these
days? No way I'm gonna invest in a digital scanner until more models
come out that address this issue w/o a major hardware upgrade!



The rebanding is occurring in the 800 MHz Band only. The only thing
for Motorola systems is that the channel numbers will change so that
is all that is needed to be updated in the scanner firmware.





--
Joe Leikhim K4SAT
"The RFI-EMI-GUY"©

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

"Follow The Money" ;-P