I am looking for a good scanner and software combination to be able to record analog and P25 audio on my computer. My county emergency system uses 800 MHz analog trunking, VHF analog system with a single repeater tower and a new P25 system with multiple towers.
Right now my setup is an ICOM IC-F121 connected to my computer's sound card and I use Scanner Recorder Pro in VOX mode to record radio traffic. With this setup I can only monitor the fire simulcast on VHF which means I only hear dispatch toning the fire departments but I don't hear them go en-route or give a scene size up as they are on the P25 system. Scanner Recorder Pro records everything into a single file along with a log file so I manually have to separate out every agency and time stamp.
I'm looking for a scanner that will allow me to listen to P25 streams. I'm also looking for a software solution that would preferably record the radio traffic into separate files based on frequency and time stamp each transmission.
It seems like there are 3 portable units and their mobile counterparts that would do the P25 decoding:
-BCD396T/BCD996T
-PSR-500/PSR-600
-Pro-96/Pro-2096
I'm looking for a software solution that would allow me to record the audio streams with radio IDs, frequency/talkgroup and timestamps, preferably into separate files based on talkgroup/frequency.
What is my best bet in terms of scanner/software combination?
I'm leaning towards the PSR-500 but I don't know if there is software out there with such capability.
Right now my setup is an ICOM IC-F121 connected to my computer's sound card and I use Scanner Recorder Pro in VOX mode to record radio traffic. With this setup I can only monitor the fire simulcast on VHF which means I only hear dispatch toning the fire departments but I don't hear them go en-route or give a scene size up as they are on the P25 system. Scanner Recorder Pro records everything into a single file along with a log file so I manually have to separate out every agency and time stamp.
I'm looking for a scanner that will allow me to listen to P25 streams. I'm also looking for a software solution that would preferably record the radio traffic into separate files based on frequency and time stamp each transmission.
It seems like there are 3 portable units and their mobile counterparts that would do the P25 decoding:
-BCD396T/BCD996T
-PSR-500/PSR-600
-Pro-96/Pro-2096
I'm looking for a software solution that would allow me to record the audio streams with radio IDs, frequency/talkgroup and timestamps, preferably into separate files based on talkgroup/frequency.
What is my best bet in terms of scanner/software combination?
I'm leaning towards the PSR-500 but I don't know if there is software out there with such capability.