Thanks! We were really lucky in that the Santa Clara city system was still using analog voice channels with lots of bandwidth (20K0F3E). If you check out the

Thanks! We were really lucky in that the Santa Clara city system was still using analog voice channels with lots of bandwidth (20K0F3E). If you check out the SVRCS system that replaced it (and I also logged for a few years), the audio quality is a lot worse. Super-compressed audio which then gets crammed through /another/ codec (MP3) isn't great. I will admit that I actually listened to the original system a lot with headphones, so I had every reason to fine-tune it until it sounded as awesome as possible. If you go back far enough into 2011, you can find a bunch of calls with terrible audio before I figured out the finer points of squelch, tuning errors, and 48 vs. 44.1 kHz :-) I haven't decided whether it's worth building another system now that I have time to actually listen again. Hmm...