I agree that traveling with the Home Patrol is great, especially with a GPS connected. I went a step farther, I now use an SDS-100 with a built in GPS module, it is the ultimate road trip scanner. Ed

Well I got my start in the US Army Signal Corps. I was an HF RTTY operator but also worked with VHF FM simplex and retrans systems. After the Army I became a firefighter/EMT in Abilene Texas. Over the

ProVoice and encryption are not one in the same. Unencrypted ProVoice can be monitored in the Uniden scanners via an upgrade, just like DMR and NXDN

Does the 436 have any of the upgrades? Ed

I love our EDACS system and will be sad to see it go, it has been a workhorse, extremely reliable. We have XL-200 portables and will go P25 eventually. Ed KG5UN Abilene, TX