I've found a quirk in the PSR-500's firmware when decoding a VHF P25 system.
Normally - when you can enter a control channel frequency in Tune mode, the radio displays essential site information like WACN, SysID, RFSS and site number. On a VHF control channel, I only get the NAC. The other fields are blank.
The control channel messaging is different for VHF. Near as I can tell, the radio does not understand the following "extended" messages.
As an RR DB admin, I find the Tune mode display very useful. It would be nice for the PSR-500/600 to support VHF systems too.
I assume the PRO-106 and PRO-197 behave the same.
Normally - when you can enter a control channel frequency in Tune mode, the radio displays essential site information like WACN, SysID, RFSS and site number. On a VHF control channel, I only get the NAC. The other fields are blank.
The control channel messaging is different for VHF. Near as I can tell, the radio does not understand the following "extended" messages.
Parker County said:37 FD 00 00 11 A7 81 3A 00 00 BF B8 RFSS Status Broadcast (Extended) Sys 1A7 Site 01-01 TX 0-55C RX 0-F74 Class 60
01 01 05 5C 0F 74 60 00 AB DF 0D 2C
37 FD 00 00 01 A7 81 3B 00 00 92 0C Network Status Broadcast (Extended) WACN BEE00 Sys 1A7 TX 0-55C RX 0-F74 Class 60
BE E0 00 05 5C 0F 74 60 55 B8 38 AD
As an RR DB admin, I find the Tune mode display very useful. It would be nice for the PSR-500/600 to support VHF systems too.
I assume the PRO-106 and PRO-197 behave the same.