And just to add, I DO have a GRE PSR-500 and the performance outside of the city of Oakland still leaves much to be desired. Yes, I can hear intermittent audio, but unless I'm driving through downtown Oakland it's still choppy and inconsistent.
This is a systematic problem affecting all scanner manufacturers. They simply haven't kept up with the technology, assuming that since P25 simulcast LSM employs CPQSK, which was made to be compatible with C4FM, that their C4FM-designed scanners will still work. And they don't.
Unfortunately the GRE's will be an improvement but not a 100% fix. The only true way to solve this will be to make your concerns known to the manufacturer, and request that if they are going to charge you $500+ for a product that is advertised to do a specific thing, that they redesign it to actually DO that thing. You'll never get great decode rates outside the intended coverage area, that's just the nature of digital simulcast, but to have almost unintelligible audio in the MIDDLE of the intended system coverage area is inexcusable and false advertising at that point.
LSM has been around for years now, get with the program scanner manufacturers!
(And this problem isn't limited to Oakland, but East Bay RCS, Golden Gate Transit and all other new 700/800 MHz 9600 baud P25 trunking simulcast systems. It's not going away anytime soon.)
This is a systematic problem affecting all scanner manufacturers. They simply haven't kept up with the technology, assuming that since P25 simulcast LSM employs CPQSK, which was made to be compatible with C4FM, that their C4FM-designed scanners will still work. And they don't.
Unfortunately the GRE's will be an improvement but not a 100% fix. The only true way to solve this will be to make your concerns known to the manufacturer, and request that if they are going to charge you $500+ for a product that is advertised to do a specific thing, that they redesign it to actually DO that thing. You'll never get great decode rates outside the intended coverage area, that's just the nature of digital simulcast, but to have almost unintelligible audio in the MIDDLE of the intended system coverage area is inexcusable and false advertising at that point.
LSM has been around for years now, get with the program scanner manufacturers!
(And this problem isn't limited to Oakland, but East Bay RCS, Golden Gate Transit and all other new 700/800 MHz 9600 baud P25 trunking simulcast systems. It's not going away anytime soon.)
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