jimlawrence said:
If one were interested in trunktracking a IWN site, what values would one use for the base frequency, step and offset for its VHF freqs.? I'm guessing I'll only have to do this on the Pro-96. Will the 996/396 trunktrack this system automatically?
Has anyone used a Uniden 396/996 or Pro-96 to successfully monitor this sytem?
The Uniden radios (796, 396 and 996 - I have not tried a 296) track the IWN system with no problem. You should not need any tables or base / offset values. Just set the system up as a true P-25 trunked system. The Uniden radios will read the voice channel frequencies directly from the control channel data.
The Radio Shack scanners (PRO96, 2096) are another story. They need tables for VHF or UHF P-25 systems and I don't know of anyone who has successfully come up with a table that will work. The big problem that I can see is that the channel frequencies are broadcast in their normal 12.5 KHz channels, but the PRO-96 rounds them off to the nearest 5 KHz channel. So I don't know if it would know what to do with that.
I have only used my PRO-96 / 2096 radios on the IWN to search for new voice / control channels or listen ot the voice channels in conventional mode. I mostly use them as the control channel monitor for PRO96COM...
- Chris
