was looking at the Motorola web page's consumer radio section looking for model numbers on the "Distance DPS" radios, when I decided to look into business radios- there is a new line of radios, (if not really new, then new to me)- the "XTN" series. Now, these radios are obviously at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to Motorola (likely not much better than FRS from their looks), The radios featured all have 3 different voice scrambling settings- while obviously speech inversion protocols, it is rather annoying that radio companies even have this at all- same goes for the Call buttons added Who needs this crap?? I often listen to the low power business frequencies after all, the cops have all gone digital and there is next to nothing to monitor outside of my radio operating uses and hate hearing speech inverted scrambling on any frequencies- abd while it may provide a more secure conversation anyone else with an normal conventional radio- configured on the right frequency and PL/DPL code can easily effectively interfere with them the same way because their radios scrable it back up so they can't understand it.
-Why speech inversion and call buttons on business radios??? Does anyone think that these radios will catch on?
http://commerce.motorola.com/cgi-bin/nc ... o%20XV1100
-Josh
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comments and questions on XTN series radios
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Speech scrambling gives the consumer that "warm and fuzzy feeling" and makes them think that nobody can listen in on them (like Nextel). Scrambling, along with call or 'anything else buttons', makes the radio look like it better than just the el-cheapo model and they will buy it every time even though it's still cheap consumer grade electronics.