-> As  posted here yesterday, the newest trunked systems are digital.  I
-> absolute nightmare for for the agencies that install them though.
-> There is a very high "learning curve" and they are *not* the panacea
-> that the manufacturers make them out to be.  It's hard enough
-> keeping an analog system running at top efficiency - let alone
-> digital - which has it's own problems on top of the familiar analog
-> ones.
Not all new trunking systems are digital, and digital isn't that new,
having been available for several years at least.  But the few agencies
that have tried it aren't impressed, and several that I've heard of have
gone back to analog for most stuff, using the digital for secure stuff
only.  Range and clarity are both far less in current digital systems,
and that's probably not going to improve soon.
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