DIGITAL RADIO - WHAT IS IT?
	Digital Radio is a form of communications when someone keys their microphone and talks, the voice is converted to digital (1's and 0's) code and sent across the airwaves instead of the actual voice which is called "Analog" transmissions. Analog is what is most commonly used now & easily readable on scanners. The idea behind digital radio is effective use of an always depleting bandwith. In theory, a dispatcher could be talking to a unit while sending them Mobile Data Terminal (MDT) traffic & activating an Alpha-numeric pager, all on the "SAME" frequency. A scanner has been recently released to monitor voice only traffic on digital frequencies (not MDT or other data). However, this mode of communications is not intended to be encrypted or secret. Listening to digital radio can be most related to the noise one would hear when first going on line. Not exactly the same but similar and is different in sound from Digital Voice Protection (DVP/DES) which sounds like someone activated the squelch on their scanner. It is also similar but unlike paging traffic.