The item I linked above, the amplifier, helped me a great deal. Got my discone antenna in the attic and I'm running my gain at 36. I'm getting my local site and 2 neighboring sites which are a distance of 17km/10mi and 22km/13mi.
Talkgroups dissapear when they have not been active for X amount of time. I forget how much time that is, 24hrs I think.
Yes, it will show back up once it's active again.
Seems my discone isn't either. Was thinking a Yagi might help, or move the receivers closer to the antenna. My cable run is overly long and not the most ideal cable for part of it. I saw a nice remote setup on reddit a few days ago that got my wheels turning:
Can you not hit Maritime Centre (46) or Geizer's Hill (45) from your location?
Talkgroups only show as active if they have been fed into the system in the last 24 hours. If it's not showing up, it either a) has not been active, or b) has not been captured and sent in by a provider. Once both those things become true, it will populate in the list again.
Yes. When it's active and being captured by @NE1C4NSC4N it will repopulate on the list. If it's showing last activity yesterday, then that's the last time it was captured, not necessarily the last time the talkgroup was active.Is the best thing to do is keep a look out on the list ?
Correct. Each node is assigned to a specific site/tower. So if Transit isn't on the site that someone is providing, in this case the Preston site, you won't hear them or you'll only hear them sometimes.
He can add as many sites as he can receive with the setup he has. There is no limit.
It all depends on location and the equipment you have. There are a lot of factors. But for example, if he had the equipment and good enough signal to monitor 3 sites around him, he could provide 3 nodes. 1 for each site. Then all the radio traffic from each of those sites would be available to listen to on the Broadcastify Calls system.
I just thought I would copy the time down so it would be easier to see how active it is so far today
| Time | Src | Dur | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:19:05 p.m. | 41800 | 2 | ||
| 5:19:00 p.m. | 41849 | 2 | ||
| 5:18:58 p.m. | 41800 | 2 | ||
| 5:18:39 p.m. | 41800 | 2 | ||
| 5:18:35 p.m. | 41800 | 0 | ||
| 5:18:32 p.m. | 0 | 0 | ||
| 5:18:27 p.m. | 41800 | 2 | ||
| 5:18:06 p.m. | 0 | 1 | ||
| 5:18:04 p.m. | 41800 | 1 | ||
| 5:18:02 p.m. | 41800 | 1 | ||
| 5:17:43 p.m. | 41884 | 1 | ||
| 5:16:05 p.m. | 41802 | 1 | ||
| 5:15:15 p.m. | 41800 | 5 | ||
| 5:15:02 p.m. | 41800 | 2 | ||
| 5:14:58 p.m. | 41837 | 2 | ||
| 5:13:40 p.m. | 41800 | 2 | ||
| 5:13:38 p.m. | 0 | 0 | ||
| 5:13:33 p.m. | 41884 | 0 | ||
| 5:10:38 p.m. | 41884 | 1 | ||
| 5:10:36 p.m. | 41802 | 2 | ||
| 5:10:33 p.m. | 41884 | 1 | ||
| 5:08:56 p.m. | 41899 | 3 | ||
| 5:08:53 p.m. | 41899 | 2 | ||
| 5:08:43 p.m. | 0 | 1 | ||