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    FDNY Queens Volume

    I just did some listening and if you compare the feeds in a dashboard with all boroughs and the volume at the same level for all, Queens is significantly lower in volume. EDIT I attached a screenshot of my dashboard with volumes adjusted to provide a consistent level across all feeds. My...
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    Can Baofeng's be used to listen to trunked systems?

    Or a pager capable of scanning P25 Phase 2. Don't forget Unication. EDIT Actually, could you put a discriminator tap into one and use it like a dongle if it covered the correct frequency range?
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    BPD portables

    I hear the traffic on 9 as I sit at my desk daily. I like to think I know the city as well as Gary and I can't pinpoint the locations regularyly either. They do a very good job of keeping it generic.
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    Mass State Police 948.912.5?

    854.4125 is a voice channel on the Zone 8 Troop C simulcast. It is 94.5 MHz lower than your frequency. The FT-60's first IF is 47.25MHz, double that and you get 94.5, so it is an image of 854.4125.
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    Considerations about linking GMRS repeaters.

    You misunderstand the purpose of tone squelch. It is a convenience to allow people to limit the traffic they hear-not to block out all users other than those they wish to talk to. All other part 95 rules still apply-you MUST monitor the frequency before transmitting to ensure that you are not...
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    Whistler TRX-1 Password Locked and Wont Connect to PC

    While the OP has fixed the issue, the SD card size issue was something I ran into with another type of device (what it was escapes me at the moment) but I was able to get around it by reformatting the SD card from exFAT to FAT
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    Was there a recent FCC opinion prohibiting GMRS repeater linking via IP (Zello, etc.) ?

    History must be looked at to consider this... Former restrictive wording (2015): "§ 95.141 Interconnection prohibited. No station in a GMRS system may be interconnected to the public switched telephone network except as and in accordance with the requirements and restrictions applied to a...
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    Turn XTS into a scanner

    From experience with both a G4 and G5 on the MPSCS system in Wayne County and Detroit, I can say that they work great. I've also used an SDS100 and 200 on the same systems with great results. I know you're looking to save money, but if you want quality without a lot of hassle, these are the...
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    Vintage FDNY Radio Dispatches

    Not the 70's, but some clips at: BRONX FIRE RADIO
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    Massachusetts State Police P25

    The digital system is still being built out. The talkgroups can be determined from the analog talkgroups mathematically, so the talkgroups are known, but not active because the system is not online.
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    Software similar to BCFY dashboard?

    Looking at rdio-scanner, I don't think that you're going to be able to do that within the framework of the program. rdio-scanner isn't really a feed player in the way you think of conventional feeds, but more of an mp3 player in that the program that sends the audio/data files does the...
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    Software similar to BCFY dashboard?

    Now I’m making sense of your problem. You would have to have the developer of ScannerLive address it. I was one of the beta testers for ScannerLive and that was a loooong time ago. I’m not even sure if it’s even still supported.
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    Software similar to BCFY dashboard?

    Not really true. You can scour the Live ATC HTML and get the direct URL of the feed. For the others, you would have to have the Icecast/Shoutcast, etc. audio URL, which, if any of the feed hosts are running ads, they will most likely not give you, since it defeats the purpose of getting you to...
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    Is publishing the amateur radio exam question pools a bad idea?

    The fact is, that the questions have to be made at least partially public. Anyone offering study assistance or publishing a book to help you pass has to know what is going to be on the test so that they can focus on the appropriate areas. Yes, in a perfect world, there would be no need for...
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    Icom LTE Radios questions

    A lot of the problems with many of the PTToC providers, that the end users don't appreciate, is proprietary equipment and apps. 911inet, PeakPTT, Rechnet, etc. all provide radios that are nothing more than modified android phones that are locked to the provider. If you're looking for a PTToC...
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    Icom LTE Radios questions

    That's exactly what it is. It's designed to handle the heavy lifting while all the customer sees is the pretty product.
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    Boston Fire auto dispatcher curiosity questions

    What you hear as "JPBSTN" or "HPBSTN" are literal text to speech from the Hexagon CAD system. It is the section of the city-JamaicaPlain, Hyde Park, etc. Some entries have the entire section spelled out and others do not-it's all dependent on how it was entered in Hexagon, not any AI on the...
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    Pro-163: Pro163 All Static Including WX

    If you're closer to Cambridge, Microcenter carries DeOxit as well https://www.microcenter.com/product/479947/caig-laboratories-deoxit-d-series-dn5-mini-spray
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    Suffolk County Long island is going Full encrypted in 2029

    So you're telling us your encryption key is aa812a85e54931?
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    Looking for a multi-band mobile antenna covering VHF low

    I only put it up there because many people completely pan the antenna without understanding the actual mounting process, and while it may be simple for you, a lot of people screw it on to a NMO mount right out of the packaging and complain that it doesn't receive.
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