What is the difference between analog and digital two-way radios?
A With analog, your transmitted voice modulates the frequency you operate on. It competes with all distant signals on the same frequency to deliver a clean sound through the receiving radio. Digital radios convert your voice to a data stream that is decoded only by radios with matching programming. Digital signals typically have less background noise than analog and will remain crystal clear up to the very edge of the radio’s coverage area. As the FCC moves toward narrow-bandwidth channels, it is becoming harder and harder to get strong, clean sound from an analog radio. Digital radios don’t experience the same issue.
