SDS100: Hearing two different conversations at the same time.

[Randyk4661]

This is something new I believe.
I was listening to this system this past weekend.

Great Wolf Lodge Trunking System, Garden Grove, California

Great Wolf Lodge Trunking System Profile

www.radioreference.com

I programmed my SDS100 to receive the frequencies as digital conventional(not DMR) to see how the new BCD160/260DN scanners might handle it.
I entered both CC's for both frequencies. At times I was getting two distinctive conversations coming through at the same time.
I could hear and understand both conversations as if I had two radios side by side. They weren't competing with each other.
In conventional mode, is it possible that the scanner was picking up both slot 1 and slot 2 and passing both to the speaker?
I need to try an duplicate again this weekend.

 

[GTR8000]

So you were hearing two distinct conversations/talkgroups with the transmissions alternating with each other, not actually "at the same time" in the sense that you heard both simultaneously. Yes, you are hearing the two time slots.

PS - DMR can be either conventional or trunked, just like other digital modulations such as P25 or NXDN. You programmed a DMR frequency in conventional mode rather than as a trunked system (Capacity Plus in this case).

 

[Randyk4661]

I didn't take in consideration the TDMA part of it. That makes sense now.