Monday, March 14, 2011

PSR-800 Can Monitor Prince George's, Loudoun

GRE's new PSR-800 scanner has the ability to track and monitor the audio of the Prince George's and Loudoun TDMA Project 25 digital systems. This feature was not advertised, but has been confirmed by several people on RadioReference. This makes the PSR-800 the only traditional scanner that can monitor these new systems. (The Digital Speech Decoder can also monitor these systems with a discriminator-tapped scanner.)

Note that the "standard" used for these two systems is proprietary to Motorola, and is not the final Project 25 Phase II standard. Once the final standard is released, it's unknown if the PSR-800 will still be able to monitor these systems or if it can be made to do so via firmware upgrade.

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