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    PA Statewide P25 Phase 2 System

    Neat. Maybe I can make more use of the old cellular antenna to the SDS100 when there's snow storms.
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    PennDOT state farm safety patrol

    About 5 years ago near Dallas PA I spotted a magnet mount antenna that looked the right size for CB on a marked State Police car. My guess is it might have been to assist in an escort of an oversized load.
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    What Would You Choose For Car To Car Simplex Communications?

    I've gotten something like 7 miles car to car on 5 watt GMRS handhelds with the antennas on the radios inside the car. But it varies with terrain, so maybe something like 2 miles maybe more typical.
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    Luzerne County P25

    The LCTA ops channels are listed as the wrong service type. They are listed as "public works" when they should be transportation. I've submitted a ticket.
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    SDS100/SDS200: Trunking Discovery Not Working?

    It seems that was the problem.
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    Luzerne County P25

    Somebody was doing a range report on EMS Ops. They said "after Bloomsburg Hospital, there's no coverage". They were on their way to Geisinger Danville.
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    Luzerne County P25

    But will they know when they're going to switch? They might have coverage outside the building, but if a firefighter is deep within a factory and loses coverage and he switches to simplex, is the chief going to know he did?
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    Luzerne County P25

    Maybe I'm mistaken... It seems like firefighters were using the on system digital repeaters for fire ground though last night? Seems kind of sketchy. The firefighters working in the building just generally need to talk to each other and their chief, right?
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    SDS100/SDS200: Trunking Discovery Not Working?

    Trying to use trunking discovery on a P25 Phase 2 system that has unencrypted talk groups. Worked in the past, but is now not recording them. Here are my settings, anything wrong? Set Delay: 0 sec, Set Logging: All, Set Compare To Database: On, Set Record Duration: 120 sec, Set Time-Out Timer...
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    Luzerne County P25

    Got some of that. Any idea what the police in Lackawanna County are going to be doing? Do they have radios programmed for the new Luzerne system? I can't remember when exactly, maybe 2 weeks ago, something cross county going on, an Old Forge or Moosic police officer was advised to reach out...
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    Wawa Radios (new units?)

    Yeah, the Cabela's radios use something, probably wifi, that Close Call on the SDS 100 doesn't pick up.
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    Luzerne County P25

    Gee! I didn't even have the scanner on much the past couple days. Didn't realize the changeover date. I just had on some Lackawanna County stuff, and plows when it snowed.
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    Tioga County P25

    Why would it be necessary? They can have P25 capable radios in an analog county.
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    12V Emergency power backup for a single scanner

    Watch these Belkin units. I had one inflate a battery.
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    SDS 100 best distance

    Yeah. I'm near Scranton PA and if I was to run full database with just a moderate radius, it brings up NJ and NY stuff we have no usual coverage of.
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    Severe Inconsistency with TRBO Capacity Plus

    Yeah. Where I live there's many mountains and hills. So with the one vehicle and dual band radio I specifically used separate quarter wave antennas, one for 2m VHF, and the other 70cm UHF with a diplexer. So I'm using antennas that can "see" up and down mountains.
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    Will a scanner work in my area?

    If it hasn't been mentioned, make sure the tower has well shielded coax going to it. Makes a great deal of difference.
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    Official TS (Hurricane) Ian Discussion Thread

    What is the state of radio comms in the hurricane hit zones now? How much damage did state, county, local, business, and amateur repeaters take?
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    Why CB is DEAD

    Can anyone recommend a USB charger that doesn't interfere with a CB? Maybe that's why some don't get on CB as much.
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    Bloomsburg Fair

    I was picking up fair related traffic on an ECEN event channel on the state P25 system this past Friday.
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