Airdorn
Member
Hey all..
I recently got my first digital scanner, a BCD996T and I absolutely love it. I think I might buy stock in Uniden.
So anyway, I'm a little confused about optimizing the P25 performance because the manual's instructions are very vague. Dare I say, the instructions are poorly written.
What I see when I am monitoring a Motorola digital system and I push the tuner + volume, is the following:
ERR: (numbers) 8 AUTO
T 1.43 1.65 1.87
I noticed that while a channel has activity, the number next to ERR: starts 'high', maybe around 60 or so, and slowly drops down some. Also, those numbers at the bottom change a lot. I am assuming the left-most number is the "low" range of something, the right-most number is the "high" range of something, and the middle one is the average of some mysterious something.
So what's the name of the game here? It says in the manual to turn the knob to make the decode threshold (whatever that is!) start level as close as possible to the system's optimum threshold (the middle number?), but the manual writer really isn't very clear which numbers are which.
When I change that 8 down to something like 2 (to get close to that 1.65), then the scanner stops monitoring that system and I get a bunch of noise.
Can anyone shed some light on this? I'm a complete noob with this digital scanning stuff.
Thanks in advance!
Airdorn
I recently got my first digital scanner, a BCD996T and I absolutely love it. I think I might buy stock in Uniden.
So anyway, I'm a little confused about optimizing the P25 performance because the manual's instructions are very vague. Dare I say, the instructions are poorly written.
What I see when I am monitoring a Motorola digital system and I push the tuner + volume, is the following:
ERR: (numbers) 8 AUTO
T 1.43 1.65 1.87
I noticed that while a channel has activity, the number next to ERR: starts 'high', maybe around 60 or so, and slowly drops down some. Also, those numbers at the bottom change a lot. I am assuming the left-most number is the "low" range of something, the right-most number is the "high" range of something, and the middle one is the average of some mysterious something.
So what's the name of the game here? It says in the manual to turn the knob to make the decode threshold (whatever that is!) start level as close as possible to the system's optimum threshold (the middle number?), but the manual writer really isn't very clear which numbers are which.
When I change that 8 down to something like 2 (to get close to that 1.65), then the scanner stops monitoring that system and I get a bunch of noise.
Can anyone shed some light on this? I'm a complete noob with this digital scanning stuff.
Thanks in advance!
Airdorn