thebigphish wrote:The one touch DC would do just that, but i am thinking about the issues of having your nextel hammered by scanner outputs being relentlessly pushed to your DC ID.
That's definitely a consideration. This wouldn't be hanging right off a scanner, but instead only following a bank of 'important' frequencies that didn't have constant activity. (Actually, a downright-good idea, IMHO, would be to set it to match fire tone-outs, but that's a different project...) You do raise a good point, though, in that it'd be tempting to 'add more' to the audio feeds, which would rapidly drive me crazy. (Another thing I'd thought about, actually, was a way to kick this in/out as needed, so it's only on when I want it to be, rather than squawking at 3am about a traffic stop a few towns over.)
thebigphish wrote:Hope you have free DC! ... Your battery life in your nextel would be crap, every call you got would come back as user not available, and phone will almost assuredly go to voicemail, etc....
This would be a 'dedicated' unit on an unlimited DC plan, at least for experimentation. (I'm ashamed to say the words, but Boost might actually be good for this thing, at least for testing?) It would
definitely not be covering everything on the scanner, though. Although a problem I just realized is that I'd be paying double -- I need a phone interfacing to the computer, and a phone to carry... Not sure how I overlooked that one, but I guess it's that I've got a handful of old Nextels with bad screens on my desk with no purpose right now. The service might not be worth the 'luxury,' especially when it means paying for two phones.
thebigphish wrote:It is a nice idea, will have to play with that headset jack on the side when i get home to my goodies.
Heh, that's kind of why I posted it: I was surprised no one had ever tried to simulcast something over DC before! There are systems that are only used for important notifications, e.g. fire toneouts and the like, that might just benefit from this type of thing.