Greetings,
After switching to Don Starr's lovely Win96 program I worked up a load using the extended frequency capability to try to listen to the Gun Barrel site. (cc- 774.84375)
My daily commute takes me within 1/2 mile and line-of-site to the tower.
I could clearly hear the control channel. However I never saw the packet rate higher than 80% and mostly more like 70%. Even line-of-sight.
I could listen to it from my desk at work but I never heard it trunk.
I programmed the channels for the site and if I set the radio to manual on a channel I could clearly hear some traffic. But I never saw it trunk.
I'm concluding that there's something about the trunking that's different in this freq range so it's not going to trunk properly?
Am I right? Did you guys already know this? Or am I missing something?
NW0U
After switching to Don Starr's lovely Win96 program I worked up a load using the extended frequency capability to try to listen to the Gun Barrel site. (cc- 774.84375)
My daily commute takes me within 1/2 mile and line-of-site to the tower.
I could clearly hear the control channel. However I never saw the packet rate higher than 80% and mostly more like 70%. Even line-of-sight.
I could listen to it from my desk at work but I never heard it trunk.
I programmed the channels for the site and if I set the radio to manual on a channel I could clearly hear some traffic. But I never saw it trunk.
I'm concluding that there's something about the trunking that's different in this freq range so it's not going to trunk properly?
Am I right? Did you guys already know this? Or am I missing something?
NW0U