The Chicago Fire Dept. has been testing the new system (again) for the past few days. We did a 30 day trial test some months ago and had an issue that i'd like some input on. The Dispatch uses TGID: 65535..while the Companies use TGID: 1 , both on the same frequency (478.4625 is one of the frequencies as an example). Each individual company will have a portable radio with a specific RID of course. Now comes the issue..when I tried to listen to the system, I was missing transmissions since the Dispatch and Companies were using seperate TGID's. The scanner couldn't jump back quick enough to catch the "quick" reply transmissions as in "message received" or "ok". I figured i'd work on this when the system goes live in the near future.
Here lies the next issue I discovered. Today their was testing going on and I wanted to manual/hold the channel. However, i'd here only 1 half of the conversation if I pressed hold/manual when the TGID was showing. I was using both a 396XT and 996XT and if I turned off the Radio ID feature, it show the frequency and i'd hear both sides of the conversation. I researched around a bit on here, and haven't found anyone with a workaround for this. If I leave the RID feature on,put them in their own Group, it still will sample the entire channel and miss "short" reply transmissions or cut off the beginning of them.
I know this is probably a unique situation, but if anyone that has monitored something like this, can give me your insight for the future of monitoring the system. I hate to not use the RID feature, but if it will be able to make it a more "normal" monitoring expieience, I guess that's what i'll do. In the past, I tried monitoring the 2 active channels (at the time), but still found I was missing those short replies or beginning of transmissions.
Here lies the next issue I discovered. Today their was testing going on and I wanted to manual/hold the channel. However, i'd here only 1 half of the conversation if I pressed hold/manual when the TGID was showing. I was using both a 396XT and 996XT and if I turned off the Radio ID feature, it show the frequency and i'd hear both sides of the conversation. I researched around a bit on here, and haven't found anyone with a workaround for this. If I leave the RID feature on,put them in their own Group, it still will sample the entire channel and miss "short" reply transmissions or cut off the beginning of them.
I know this is probably a unique situation, but if anyone that has monitored something like this, can give me your insight for the future of monitoring the system. I hate to not use the RID feature, but if it will be able to make it a more "normal" monitoring expieience, I guess that's what i'll do. In the past, I tried monitoring the 2 active channels (at the time), but still found I was missing those short replies or beginning of transmissions.