Hello lezellner!

02 Oct 16 07:50, you wrote to Jeff Smith:

It depends on you area. A lot of areas have went to digital formats
like P25, thus taking a very expensive radio to listen.

P25 can be listened via RTL-SDR monitor and some software on your PC. So it is not expensive :)

Eugene, RN4HGW

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Hello lezellner!

P25 can be listened via RTL-SDR monitor and some software on your PC. So it is not expensive :)

The ones I've seen are not linux based.

What rtlsdr setups can be run under Linux for P25?

Specifically

Pi2/3's under Raspbian Wheezy

or

Kubuntu 12.04 or 14.04.5 ???


Additionally ones for EDACS analog, EDACS-N analog, and even EDACS w/Provoice?

Even some of the Motorola with P25 audio ones?

All the trunking ones, I've seen, rely on a very specific non Linux piece of software.

The physical radios from Uniden/Bearcat and Whistler(nee GRE) are $$$$, cheap v. the $3-4K+ for a real radio, but still $600 for some of them is not like the $50-100 for the first few I had.
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Hello Lezellner,

How popular is the use of scanning radios these days?

It depends on you area. A lot of areas have went to digital formats like
P25, thus taking a very expensive radio to listen.

That's the situation here the seven county metro are went digital some years back. In part so the different agencies could more easily talk to each other when needed. I bought a couple digital scanners when they first switched over.

Some areas have went to encrypted when they went to P25, thus making it unmonitorable, period.

Here the majority of the radio traffic is un-encrypted although they can enable

encryption when they wish to make a conversation private.

Some areas are still using plain analog V|UHF and thus can be monitored easily And there is a lot of people who have no radios and listen via
table, cell phone via applications like Scanner Radio.

There are a few entities that are still analog. And a number of businesses also. But with the availability of some online scanner services listening to the more popular digital or analog communication agencies is quite easy on any PC, tablet, or smartphone.


Jeff


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