Harris XG25P Side Tone

[70cutlass442]

I am using the vote scan feature which seems to work well. My biggest complaint is the delay in landing on a channel. In an analog system, I would simply add a MDC preamble with a side tone to let the user know they can't talk yet.

I can add the side tone in P25 mode except, I have no control over how long the tone is. Anyone have a suggestion? I just need something to delay the user form speaking so the rest of the radios can vote approximately before speaking.

 

[BMDaug]

I don’t use Vote Scan so this is a bit of a shot in the dark, but under Options>Alert Options, does the ‘Ready To Talk Tone’ check box get you anywhere?

-B

 

[70cutlass442]

I don’t use Vote Scan so this is a bit of a shot in the dark, but under Options>Alert Options, does the ‘Ready To Talk Tone’ check box get you anywhere?

-B

It does, hopefully that will give the user enough time to key up the system long enough to get the other untis in the field to land on a site.

Thanks!!

 

[IFRIED91]

May I ask.. what type of system do u use votescan on? The only true vote scan scan based one I know of is the NYS thruway… it’s broken down into 4 zones with 2 channels each and as u travel the radio chooses audio from the stronger signal tower

 

[70cutlass442]

May I ask.. what type of system do u use votescan on? The only true vote scan scan based one I know of is the NYS thruway… it’s broken down into 4 zones with 2 channels each and as u travel the radio chooses audio from the stronger signal tower

We are building a conventional P25 system that will utilize voting on the repeater side, as well as vote scan in the radios to choose the strongest transmitter.

There will be two sites on towers, opposite ends of town, that will be connected via internet. There will be a third site in a hospital as well.

All sites share a common input frequency that will be voted by the repeaters. The three sites then use unique transmit frequencies. The radios will then vote these output frequencies to select the strongest transmitter.

We may add additional in building repeaters that will recycle the output frequency of the hospital transmitter as there will be no overlap between that site and other buildings in the area. All of which are linked via IP.