fmon
Silent Key Jan. 14, 2012
Nice report Richard. As the crow flies, Thornburg to the 66/81 junction is 74 miles. Not bad.
fmon said:Thanks for the clarification JE. My meaning was that the 396 apparently sets the required tables from the CC datastream doesn't it?
BTW, I have Pro96Com running on the STARS at this time, and the dump page indicates three entries with Explicit Alternate CC's with freqs listed. The data page list them with the (a) also. Would these be correct to submit to the database page? Or is this a question foir Mike?
kikito said:Yeah, that might be better for Mike to answer....
Maybe the STARS system is using a combination of Explicit and Implicit methods. Especially, when is one the first ones I've heard of not transmitting the SysId the "usual way", which I don't know what kind of privacy or "closed system" they expect to have just because they're not broadcasting that piece of info.....
jehm1212 said:Since the new firmware upgrade, has anyone else noticed that their 396T tracks STARS worse than before or sometimes not at all? Side by side with my Pro-96, the 396T receives about 1 of every 10 transmissions when listening to the same control channel. I thought the upgrade was supposed to help with P-25 implicit systems.
dtscho said:I have also noticed that I don't seem to be receiving all the transmissions from one control channel with the 396. This is the Thornburg site with control channel 152.0975. The digital audio is set to Auto 6. I have the latest firmware (1.11.03).
I have the three associated voice channels in a conventional system, so I can tell when there is active voice. Then I quickly switch to the system where STARS is programmed as a P25 TRS. Sometimes it will display the talkgroup; sometimes it won't. It seems to be flashing the "LNK" designator when it's trying to receive a transmission.
Anyway, just a 396 user report. In general, I like the 396 a lot, except it appears I got a unit with a bad speaker/amp.
Dave
FWIW, this happens in one of our ALMR sites up here too. I haven't been able to identify yet what's different about that site but I did noticed that when listening to the pure "buzzing" of the CC on this particular site with another scanner, there's some sort of cycle pause or pitch/rate change, like many of the old 3600 CCs use to have. When I listen to other sites, the buzzing is more constant without any change in the rate or sound.dtscho said:1. When I hold on the control channel, the audio will be muted for a few seconds, but then the control channel noise will come through. This does not happen with the 380 MHz systems--the audio remains muted, and the DAT indicator is steady on the display.
kikito said:FWIW, this happens in one of our ALMR sites up here too. I haven't been able to identify yet what's different about that site but I did noticed that when listening to the pure "buzzing" of the CC on this particular site with another scanner, there's some sort of cycle pause or pitch/rate change, like many of the old 3600 CCs use to have. When I listen to other sites, the buzzing is more constant without any change in the rate or sound.