the new unidens

Astro_Saber · Post by **Astro_Saber** » Tue Apr 02, 2002 9:28 pm

EC-7 · Post by **EC-7** » Wed Apr 03, 2002 6:17 am

And the big question is....Are they for sale now? How much $$$ for the handheld, base, and APCO25 card.

I don't know if I should get that or the new Yaesu VX-7r thta's comming out soon.

K2XM · Post by **K2XM** » Wed Apr 03, 2002 9:02 am

On 2002-04-03 09:17, EC-7 wrote:
And the big question is....Are they for sale now? How much $$$ for the handheld, base, and APCO25 card.

From the write-up that came out during the CES show in Las Vegas back in January, the
scanner will run about $350 and the APCO card
will be another $325-$350. They are not yet
available in stores, you'll have to wait a
couple more months.

Astro_Saber · Post by **Astro_Saber** » Wed Apr 03, 2002 9:15 am

but does the yaesu do trunking?

Victor Xray · Post by **Victor Xray** » Wed Apr 03, 2002 11:22 am

Someone better tell Uniden that 1300MHz is the upper end of the Amateur 23-cm band, NOT 25-cm! That's a pretty embarrassing mistake if they are mass-producing these brochures for advertisement & marketing.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Wed Apr 03, 2002 12:09 pm

You know, I wouldn't mind dishing out the $700 for the scanner and card, but it would be a shame to purchase these expensive pieces just to find out that the system you want to monitor is encrypted and there is no way around it.

You won't know if the system is encrypted or not until you get a digital scanner. The system I hope to be able to monitor, may just be encrypted. What sucks is the shop that programmed some of the cop radios won't tell me straight out whether they are encrypted or not!

We wait for years for a digital scanner so that we can monitor transmissions that we haven't been able to with analog equipment. The only thing law enforcement has to do to block us out again is to encrypt! But, does encryption of a digital signal carry the same consequences of analog encryption (poor audio)?
-Josh

williamh · Post by **williamh** » Wed Apr 03, 2002 9:17 pm

i live in so. cal. and know of at least one agency that uses astro sabers with otar-desxl
encrypt. and when in secure mode you almost cant tell the diffrence. some times the sigl. will scramble like a nextel, or the audio will sound a little muddy , but compared to des on a saber 1 ......its like talking in the clear. and all you get on the scanner is white noise with a tone on the end.