As some of you guys may know, I live just outside Salisbury, NC and am within close proximity to the Salisbury (site 78) and Faith (site 37) and High Rock (site 45) towers. I have five G-Series pagers, consisting of two G4's and three G5's; they are on all the time, every day, and each is assigned to it's own system, site or county. I am aware that some counties do not have permission to be on neighboring county's towers so that's the reason for my having the pagers assigned the way that they are.
When I do a "wildcard" search for a certain county's talk groups that are programmed in the pager, the pager will not find the closest tower site like it usually would. I'm finding that the pager will stop on the site that the talk groups are on. For example: I live nearest to the Salisbury tower (78), BUT when I select the knob position that has all of the Davidson County talk groups in it, it will land on the High Rock (site 45) tower which is about twice the distance in air miles from the Salisbury site.
Question: Are these pagers "smart" enough to read the control channels of all the towers within range during my wildcard search and be able to determine that the talk groups that I'm trying to scan are on a certain tower (or am I just getting lucky seeing this happen each time)? Are any of you guys finding that the pager will default to the tower for which you are scanning talk groups on?
When I do a "wildcard" search for a certain county's talk groups that are programmed in the pager, the pager will not find the closest tower site like it usually would. I'm finding that the pager will stop on the site that the talk groups are on. For example: I live nearest to the Salisbury tower (78), BUT when I select the knob position that has all of the Davidson County talk groups in it, it will land on the High Rock (site 45) tower which is about twice the distance in air miles from the Salisbury site.
Question: Are these pagers "smart" enough to read the control channels of all the towers within range during my wildcard search and be able to determine that the talk groups that I'm trying to scan are on a certain tower (or am I just getting lucky seeing this happen each time)? Are any of you guys finding that the pager will default to the tower for which you are scanning talk groups on?