Good evening, everyone!
I thought I would throw this out here and maybe see how everyone else is doing it.
As you know, the Omaha Regional Interop Network (ORIN) is currently composed of 3 "subsystems" - 1) Douglas County Simulcast, 2) OPPD, and 3) Washington County Simulcast. Pottawattamie will be the fourth.
If you have an APCO-25 capable scanner, how do you listen to this system?
With my BCD396T, I listen to the system as 3 discreet subsystems. For each subsystem, I have created a System and configured it as Control Channel only. I listen to each of the systems in "ID SEARCH" mode in order to find new Talkgroups and to listen to ones I already know about.
For Douglas and Washington county subsystems, the number of possible control channels is relatively short as each subsystem is represented by a single "site number" - 101 for DC and 113 for WC.
In the case of OPPD, each of their 11 sites (102 - 112) has its own set of possible control channels. So, what I've done is program the control channel list according to the sites that I am closest to, starting with Murray.
The OPPD configuration works pretty well since the 396T will scan the control channel list and automatically lock onto the channel with the best signal.
I was just curious as to how other people are scanning systems like this one!
Thanks and 73's
I thought I would throw this out here and maybe see how everyone else is doing it.
As you know, the Omaha Regional Interop Network (ORIN) is currently composed of 3 "subsystems" - 1) Douglas County Simulcast, 2) OPPD, and 3) Washington County Simulcast. Pottawattamie will be the fourth.
If you have an APCO-25 capable scanner, how do you listen to this system?
With my BCD396T, I listen to the system as 3 discreet subsystems. For each subsystem, I have created a System and configured it as Control Channel only. I listen to each of the systems in "ID SEARCH" mode in order to find new Talkgroups and to listen to ones I already know about.
For Douglas and Washington county subsystems, the number of possible control channels is relatively short as each subsystem is represented by a single "site number" - 101 for DC and 113 for WC.
In the case of OPPD, each of their 11 sites (102 - 112) has its own set of possible control channels. So, what I've done is program the control channel list according to the sites that I am closest to, starting with Murray.
The OPPD configuration works pretty well since the 396T will scan the control channel list and automatically lock onto the channel with the best signal.
I was just curious as to how other people are scanning systems like this one!
Thanks and 73's