Thanks Mike! That makes sense but what I see on my DSD+ is like:
S1
S2
1
2
3
4
With most of the voice traffic and control data going over the "1,2,3,and4" regularly. Is the S1 and S2 a simultaneous display of the time slots for that frequency that is active? Or maybe I have something wrong in the set up with the freq file as it has never displayed the frequency in the channel window. Either way I'll keep tinkering........
Thanks Again
Yes, you have it right.
1, 2, 3, 4 are the LCNs (frequencies)
S1 / S2 are the active timeslots on the _current_ frequency being monitored by DSD+ -- which isn't necessarily the "currently active" LCN.
For instance, if you have one receiver fed into DSDPLUs and you are sitting on the control channel, the S1/S2 are ONLY showing you informatoin about what is occurring on the two timeslots on the control channel frequency.
The 1, 2, 3, 4, etc let you know that there are active voice transmissions occurring on other LCNs (frequencies), even if you may not know what the actual frequency associated with that LCN is.
The S1/S2 won't show active on the graphic display of DSDPLus if it's just data. They will only show activity if there a talkgroup is active or if a private call is occurring between two radios.
The 1, 2, 3, 4, will show activity when there are voice calls on one of the LCNs / frequencies in the system.
And remember what I said before about a DMR control channel not always being LCN 1. If you sit on a control channel and wait for voice traffic to occur on the timeslot that isn't in use for control data, then DSD+ will reveal the LCN of the control channel. It's almost always LCN 1 -- but that's only because system maintainers typically use that default. The system maintainers could easily set the LCNs for each frequency to any valid LCN number they want, and throw us all off.
Mike
