Let's say we wanted to monitor Joe on D.S.S. A. Nevermind the legality, that's been done to
       death - we all know better, but this is just a hypothetical example. No harm, no foul. Now then...
       D.S.S. A is a XYZ co digital encrypted D.S.S.. Great. All we need to do is get a copy of the
       XYZ D.S.S. companies' digital protocol for it's D.S.S. system. (As soon as someone figures out where all
       these companies hand out such literature, please let me know, huh?) Once we can see the protocol, we can hopefully
       understand it enough to reverse it and sequence all the 0's and 1's into the correct order and send them to a
       specialized circuit that takes the binary stream and converts it to voice. You'll probably need the schematic to the
       D.S.S. set-up as well for that.

       Now the tricky part - the encryption. Once we can decode a valid frame sequence (all digital
       radios need one to let it know where the data starts and stops) then we just try every possible combination of
       those bits until we find a match. IF (and that's a big IF, as it assumes no extra 0's and 1's were added in the
       encryption sequence just to mess with our minds) that happened then maybe after an hour/day/week/month/etc. of
       processor time,you might hear Joe saying "Hello..."

       Great! We've got it! We listen in on Joe for the rest of the conversation (That probably took
       place days ago) and hear leave. Then he starts again and... aw , the code changes when he does that... So
       the program (you have to write it yourself - I guess I should've mentioned that first) has to
       start hunting for a new code all over again. This repeats ad nauseum until we get sick of monitoring Joe.

       Then we see Sally across the street talking on D.S.S. set-up B. Ahh, this might be good, so
       we run our new program/circuit on Sally's D.S.S. frequency. but nothing happens - our program can't
       decipher it at all! A closer look reveals her D.S.S. set-up  is an ABC co D.S.S.. Uh, oh..
       They use a different protocol over at ABC co for their D.S.S. set-up... So we get to start from scratch again.

       (The examples below are not the real values OK guys? I don't think I need to look these up to
       make a point...)This is just narrow band 900MHz . DSS adds a new twist as it takes a radio transmission and
       scatters it across a large chunk of the allocated band. So you could find a piece of Sally or Joe's D.S.S.
       transmission on more than a dozen different frequencies. It would take a Rich Wellsian collection of scanners
       to cover all the possible frequencies all at once. And your PC has to make sense of all this.

       So to answer the question, the SOFTWARE angle is not going to happen. It just isn't.
       Now, the hardware angle - modifying an existing unit to make it a D.S.S. "scanner" - is much
       more feasible.Much more. But that's a whole other rant unto itself. ;-)

       I hope that helps explain it..

       -Phil Smalley
Please note: ScannerWay does not, nor does it's provider, nor does this document endorse in any way the monitoring of private wireless transmissions. It is clearly just an explanation of how hard it would be to accomplish. Therefore this document actually deters people from attempting to decode a dss type signal.