"Andy100" wrote in message
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Surely, even though the scanners you mention can receive digital signals,
broadcasters such as the police would still be unintelligible ??. I hope
so,
after the amount of money the local police force have spent on encrypted
airwave radios !!

PS Are the 'digital' frequencies you mention still within the 0-1300MHz
band
scope ??

Cheers
Andy


Andy, don't confuse "digital" with "encryption". The two are separate
functions. A signal can be analog * or digital, plain or encrypted, or any
combination of the two.

The digital scanners can receive a digital mode called APCO25. If your
Police are using this mode, unencrypted, then you will be able to hear them.
If the Police are encrypted, then as a previous writer said, you won't be
able to decrypt it within any reasonable timeframe.

Our Police use digital at the 468MHz range, our State Government is planning
on changing it's 400-420MHz system to digital in a couple of years, your
local Police may be in the 800MHz band. You'll need to do some searching for
that information, it varies.

* analog = analogue (Barry O'Grady, author of Dictionary for Pedants)


Brad.