I'm at work right now when I get home I'll send more. I lt was a little tricky (for me) to get it in there but it's working.
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Full spectrum scan question.
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I tried it at another location this morning and couldn't get it to lock on. I'm gonna double check sone things when I get home in the PPS. At my house it finally kicked in, at a different location it wouldn't lock after multiple attempts. I'll check further.
I have located the problem I was experiencing with the G3 not locking onto a site while in full spectrum scan. I originally had the range set as start 151.0000, end 171.0000 step 6250 hz. I adjusted the frequencies to start 150.7225 end 171.3475 step 6250 hz. It is now locking onto the site that is local to me.
Well noted, I’ll try to adjust the frequency and the step.
I want to report back and say that for the information @RaleighGuy provided has gotten me scanning as I go thru the state. It's a little odd the way it locks in to sites but honestly it's moves pretty seamlessly from this one to that one once it finally acquires.
There is some delay quite often till it finds the first site and at least in my case probably every 3 out of 10 try's I have to switch knob positions and start the scan again.
@hazrat8990 your post also really helped me see this thru and from what I can tell once it acquired as long is it has a neighboring signal it goes almost seamlessly to it. There appears to be no rhyme or reason which site it chooses though. I guess whatever signal is the strongest at that second.
Anyway thanks to everyone that had input. I appreciate it. 73
There is some delay quite often till it finds the first site and at least in my case probably every 3 out of 10 try's I have to switch knob positions and start the scan again.
@hazrat8990 your post also really helped me see this thru and from what I can tell once it acquired as long is it has a neighboring signal it goes almost seamlessly to it. There appears to be no rhyme or reason which site it chooses though. I guess whatever signal is the strongest at that second.
Anyway thanks to everyone that had input. I appreciate it. 73
I'm gonna trim my scan spread down some. While mine is working I think I'll try to narrow it down to the actual lowest and highest needed. Glad you got it going.
I haven't been out of range of the local site to test to see if it locates the next site. I have a day trip scheduled for next week (pending weather) that will take me into the range of another site. We shall see
Good luck. While it's sort of hit and miss which site it connects to at least I had capabilities between my home and Springfield Illinois I had my other G5 that actually had sites programmed for that drive and often the scanning one didn't connect the same site my programmed one did. (Which was fine). I was still able to listen to most of what I wanted to on both devices and honestly I made a note of the sites the scanning one picked up and may add those to the programming on that zone. Let us know how your trip goes. Be safe.
Remember that a GPS system cannot anticipate where you are going, so the range ahead will be smaller than the range behind.
Ok, thanks. I can only tell you it did switch between sites seamlessly once it finally acquired the first site. Obviously the best method would be to program in the stuff you want to hear along the way but, for something spur of the moment, it at least keeps you somewhat informed. I found that once I got used to a couple of things, it was easy to ID the State police by the transmitted ID's and other stuff (animal control for instance) by the conversation. While I'm still refining some of the settings, I was all in all pleased by the way it worked once it finally acquired the first site.
Ok so I did some (hopefully) figuring and I came up with this on the FSS for my Unication.
700 MHz: 769.08125-775.78125 and I used 6250 (6.25) KHz Step size due to them carrying those out to 5 digits.
800 MHz: 851.075-860.9875 I used 1250 (12.5) KHz steps for that scan since it only appears to be carried to 4 digits. Right now I can't tell much it keeps locking on to the same site which is 700 MHz that's way further from me than my actual home ones but, it's always done that for some reason. I was asked to report back with what I found and this is it.
I'll have to do some road stuff to see how it does on the 800 Frequencies and make sure I don't need to change the step size but this is what I'm going to test with.
700 MHz: 769.08125-775.78125 and I used 6250 (6.25) KHz Step size due to them carrying those out to 5 digits.
800 MHz: 851.075-860.9875 I used 1250 (12.5) KHz steps for that scan since it only appears to be carried to 4 digits. Right now I can't tell much it keeps locking on to the same site which is 700 MHz that's way further from me than my actual home ones but, it's always done that for some reason. I was asked to report back with what I found and this is it.
I'll have to do some road stuff to see how it does on the 800 Frequencies and make sure I don't need to change the step size but this is what I'm going to test with.
Keep in mind that phase 2 systems use 6.25KHz spacing, so I would just stick with that to cover all bases. Also, you can get an idea of your starting points by looking at the band plans for systems that you're interested in. That way you'll be able to see the exact spacing used and what the base frequencies are.
I had actually already switched it back. For IL I think I was ok but I switched back to "6250" anyway. Thanks.
Made my trip today, and it was somewhat educational. The G3 performed better than expected. Not only did it find the next site that I expected, it also found two additional sites that I never even considered covering that area. Due to the terrain that I was in, it did loose signal and go out of range. I left it run and it either found the lost site or one of the other sites without any intervention from me. EOR
That's great. I'm still messing with mine. On a recent trip. It seems to connect to 700 sites a little easier than 800 sites but that being said once it acquired it switched around pretty seamlessly. Thanks for reporting back. Glad it worked for you!! We're you scanning VHF or UHF or a combination of both ??
I'm scanning strictly VHF with a G3. The G4 handles the 700/800 stuff.
Ya the reason I asked was about the G3. Given the G3 VHF side is on an internal antenna it's great it worked. I have only set up 700/800 on my one G5 at the moment once I get it refined I'll do a second G5 and maybe go ahead and do my extra G4 also. I just want to make sure I have it right on the one I use and not mess with the one my wife listens to.
