Norman site repeaters Xmitting all the time

n5bew1 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-05-2009, 10:40 PM

I noticed a few days ago by accident the all of the Norman sites repeaters seem to transmit all the time even when there is no radio traffic on it. I don't remember them doing that. Seems they used to drop out after a hang time. Now they are keyed all the time?? Is this normal now?? When listening in normal trunking mode you never notice it. I guess Big M puts monster cooling fans on the power amplifiers.

n5bew1 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-06-2009, 11:55 PM

Well I guess that was a glitch the Norman site is back to normal and all repeaters are not transmitting 100 % of the time

KX5MOT · #3 (**permalink**) 11-07-2009, 06:51 AM

I never noticed the radios at work doing that.

n5bew1 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-07-2009, 12:10 PM

You only notice it on a scanner if you manually select the repeaters. It is transparent to trunking scanners
and end users. A person who was just scanning the repeaters in a nontrunking mode noticed it because it locked his scanner on one busy repeater output all the time. His scanner a Pro 2050 would only do trunking "or" conventional and he wanted to listen to ham repeaters and Norman also. I suggested it was time to upgrade scanners.