Pro-96 APCO control channel display info

[GrayJeep]

Friends,
I have used RR Search as best I could to find this info but came up empty.

In Colorado, using a Pro-96 on the State's Motolorola APCO 25 system.
Looking at a control channel in Manual. The scanner displays the channel number, the channel mode, the frequency and the text I've applied for the site. No problems with that stuff.

But the bottom line I haven't found an explanation for.

When receiving a control channel signal It looks like
'96:SYD1C 90%' where SYD1C cycles to T0105 then BEE02 then back to SYD1C. The
% number moves around a bit though not in a pattern I can recognize.

I *think* that SYD1C is the system name and T0105 is the particular tower within the system.

What is the BEE02 field? What parameter is being presented in the % field?
Is this stuff system-specific or is it Pro-96 + APCO25 standard stuff?

Thanks for your help!

 

[MMIC]

You are correct on SYD1C, it's the system ID, and T0105 is the tower number (in hex format, so convert it to decimal for the *real* tower ID).

BEE02 is the WACN. See this document for more details:

http://ftp.tiaonline.org/tr-8/tr815/Public/WACNguide010406.doc

 

[n0lqt]

When receiving a control channel signal It looks like
'96:SYD1C 90%' where SYD1C cycles to T0105 then BEE02 then back to SYD1C. The
% number moves around a bit though not in a pattern I can recognize.
I *think* that SYD1C is the system name and T0105 is the particular tower within the system.
What is the BEE02 field? What parameter is being presented in the % field?
Is this stuff system-specific or is it Pro-96 + APCO25 standard stuff?

The BEE02 is the WACN (Wide Area Communication Network). The State of KS KSICS WACN is BEE00 amazingly. Your System ID is D1C, the KS system is 1B2. The control channel you were monitoring was off of Tower 105 (which is actually a decimal equivalent of a hexadecimal couplet. The first "1" could be written as "Zone 01" and the "05" is "Tower 05". As more towers are added you can get Tower 01 thru FF in each "zone." Right now in the KS system we have two zones working. Towers T0101 thru T010E (no 00 or 0F yet) in zone 1 and Towers T0201 thru T0206 and T020C thru T020F. Looks like Colorado has three major zones with about 30 to 60 towers each.
The % number you are seeing is the percent of data frames the radio is successfully decoding. Of course, the higher the percentage the better the signal quality....n0lqt_._

 

[GrayJeep]

You are correct on SYD1C, it's the system ID, and T0105 is the tower number (in hex format, so convert it to decimal for the *real* tower ID).

BEE02 is the WACN. See this document for more details:

http://ftp.tiaonline.org/tr-8/tr815/Public/WACNguide010406.doc

Now that I go back and look at the RR system data I see the WACN figure listed.

Thanks for the helpful answers.
Now I can make some sense of what my radio is showing me.