Greetings all,
My university uses an unencrypted MOTOTRBO Capacity Plus radio system that I am trying to monitor/scan using a spare Windows 7 computer with a RTL-SDR unit, SDR#, and DSD+. As far as I can tell, my university's radio system has four frequencies across two channels (Channel 1: Rx 154.49, Tx 159.855; Channel 2: Rx 152.4575, Tx 157.7175) for its several talkgroups. I also have an issued Motorola XPR 6550 radio that I am using to cross-reference the RTL-SDR system with to make sure I set it up correctly.
Depending on the instance, monitoring one of the two Rx frequencies (154.49 or 152.4575) in SDR# will show a "heartbeat" of sorts in the DSD+ console, as a several-line chunk of data every second or so. However, the repeater will inexplicitly "switch" the control channel(?) from one frequency to the other, causing the "heartbeat" to cease in DSD+ until I change the frequency in SDR# to the other one.
My question is: Is it possible for SDR# and/or DSD+ to "follow" the active(?) frequency so that DSD+ is always ready when somebody calls on a talkgroup and I don't have to keep switching from one to the other? I am fairly new to using this computer scanning and decoding equipment so I am not quite sure about how some of it works.
Many thanks in advance!!
My university uses an unencrypted MOTOTRBO Capacity Plus radio system that I am trying to monitor/scan using a spare Windows 7 computer with a RTL-SDR unit, SDR#, and DSD+. As far as I can tell, my university's radio system has four frequencies across two channels (Channel 1: Rx 154.49, Tx 159.855; Channel 2: Rx 152.4575, Tx 157.7175) for its several talkgroups. I also have an issued Motorola XPR 6550 radio that I am using to cross-reference the RTL-SDR system with to make sure I set it up correctly.
Depending on the instance, monitoring one of the two Rx frequencies (154.49 or 152.4575) in SDR# will show a "heartbeat" of sorts in the DSD+ console, as a several-line chunk of data every second or so. However, the repeater will inexplicitly "switch" the control channel(?) from one frequency to the other, causing the "heartbeat" to cease in DSD+ until I change the frequency in SDR# to the other one.
My question is: Is it possible for SDR# and/or DSD+ to "follow" the active(?) frequency so that DSD+ is always ready when somebody calls on a talkgroup and I don't have to keep switching from one to the other? I am fairly new to using this computer scanning and decoding equipment so I am not quite sure about how some of it works.
Many thanks in advance!!
