what is the ranger on a scanner . i have a town that is around 200 km away should i be able to pick that town up on my scanner ?they are using p25
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Absolutely not.
ThinBlueLine22
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It depends how close you are to the actual transmitter site and if that site carries the talkgroup that you want to hear. You should probably ask your question in the Canada Forum.
i know the police can do a patch from here to that town
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Is this the system you wish to monitor?
Newfoundland Provincial Radio (Project 25) System Trunking System, Various, Newfoundland and Labrador - Scanner Frequencies
Looks like there are multiple sites on this system. If you want to monitor this system, you would have to be probably within 20 to 30 km of a site (dependant upon what type of antenna you use, the higher your antenna the further away you can be). Now, like I said it depends how this system is set up, but I highly doubt that the talkgroup you want to monitor would be carried on a tower 200km away, but I am not familiar with the way that they have configured their system. A PATCH on the system is a completely different as they could be patched to a talkgroup that is pushed out to more sites on the system.
Newfoundland Provincial Radio (Project 25) System Trunking System, Various, Newfoundland and Labrador - Scanner Frequencies
Looks like there are multiple sites on this system. If you want to monitor this system, you would have to be probably within 20 to 30 km of a site (dependant upon what type of antenna you use, the higher your antenna the further away you can be). Now, like I said it depends how this system is set up, but I highly doubt that the talkgroup you want to monitor would be carried on a tower 200km away, but I am not familiar with the way that they have configured their system. A PATCH on the system is a completely different as they could be patched to a talkgroup that is pushed out to more sites on the system.
yes this is the system i would like to monitor
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they had fire alarm false one go off at the repeater station so they put all towns one one repeater i could hear all the towns on my scanner. So i was wondering if this could help someone tell me what kind of system set up they have here.
they had fire alarm false one go off at the repeater station so they put all towns one one repeater i could hear all the towns on my scanner. So i was wondering if this could help someone tell me what kind of system set up they have here.
i was reading a new roaming capability was built in to the new system so they don,t have to manually change channels when they leave the range of a particular tower and there is a wider talk group available so that any member (rcmp) in the western and central region can talk to any other member with the change of a channel instead of requesting a patch from the central command center in st johns. i am talking about newfoundland . So i should be able to pick up that talk group any where in newfoundland???
ThinBlueLine22
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Are you able to pick up the control channel off the tower that closest to you? If so, you can hear whatever talkgroup is associated with that tower. Set up a wildcard to see what you get. I can't answer any better than that.
i will try that. thank you
One of the programmable attributes of the TGs is which sites/zones they are going to be received/transmitted on. So if a TG is setup to be carried on all sites/zones, then you will be able to monitor it if you are receiving any site. Locally we have some TGs that are designated countywide that work like that. The TGs you are describing might work that way or they might require that at least one member of the TG be affiliated with the site you are monitoring before they're transmitted there.
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