Have had a Uniden SDS200 going on a month or so. I live in Utah where most of the public safety is on the vast and ginormous Utah Communication Authority. And it covers a lot of ground with a lot of sites. It's a Motorola analog system but can users can make talkgroups digital and even encrypted if they want to. I have noticed that I can receive a given department ( lets say Utah Sheriff talkgroups ) and a talkgroup can be received on my scanner from one site such as "Utah County Simulcast" and maybe the next time I hear it on one called "Lake IR". Then I'll hear it on a yet another site the next time. Sometimes I noticed that if I start hearing a transmission on a given talk group and a certain site and twist my function knob to go up or down so it starts scanning again it very well might stop on the last part of the same transmission ( same dispatcher/officers ) on a different site. I've done it many times as an experiment.
Now with some sites the interference and strength of the signal is terrible to horrible while others might sound great and maybe some in between. Now my big question is can I do a permanent avoid on the really terrible sites and not miss anything?? Are all transmissions necessarily always broadcast from multiple sites? I'm still learning this trunking stuff but when it's a huge, vast and complex trunk like UCA, I need all the help I can get. Thanks for any advice you can give me.
Now with some sites the interference and strength of the signal is terrible to horrible while others might sound great and maybe some in between. Now my big question is can I do a permanent avoid on the really terrible sites and not miss anything?? Are all transmissions necessarily always broadcast from multiple sites? I'm still learning this trunking stuff but when it's a huge, vast and complex trunk like UCA, I need all the help I can get. Thanks for any advice you can give me.