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Monday, Febuary 3, 2003, Philadelphia switched to their new APCO-25 Digital System.

Philadelphia Scanner Listeners have no choice now, but to spend over $650 to monitor the Philadelphia Police, Fire, and other city agencies.

The city of Philadelphia signed a contract with Motorola for the new $51 million 800 MHz ASTRO� digital trunked radio communications system.

WPRW578-the new station which includes two, 15�channel communications systems, that are positioned side-by-side and connected through a Motorola SmartZone� switch. The switch will manage all communications traffic on the system, automatically passing communications from 10 different sites-switching one system site to another as users travel throughout the city.

Motorola supplied the police and fire departments with about 4,885 Motorola ASTRO XTS 3000' portable radios and 1,800 ASTRO Spectra� mobile radios.

"The city of Philadelphia's new Motorola 800 MHz ASTRO digital radio system is one of the most sophisticated available today," said Ken Denslow, who is the vice president and general manager of the Motorola's Northern Sales Division.

Uniden's new digital scanner's now features 1000 channels. The scanners will support Motorola trunked systems up to 3600 baud as well as EDACS, and E.F. Johnson and be an APCO digital capable unit, which will handle the three trunking formats and alpha-numeric display. It will scan multiple trunked systems as well as trunked and conventional systems. Other features include 10 service searches, frequency coverage from 25 MHz to 1300 MHz (less cellular and a small portion of the UHF TV band between 550 & 760 MHz), alpha tagging, two line alpha display, CTCSS/DCS codes, control channel-only mode, S.A.M.E. weather alert, clone feature, PC programming /control, programming cable, AM/FM/WFM modes, beep alert, attenuator, selectable steps, rugged hand-held design, full frequency LCD display as well as Uniden's free programming software.