IC-R30 skip encrypted P25

[Tim-B]

Is there a way to make the R30 resume scanning when it encounters an encrypted P25 transmission? Mine mutes the audio but remains stopped on that channel until the transmission stops. The pop up box shows the talkgroup ID number and the IDs that I am seeing do correspond to encrypted talkgroups. So that tells me that it can distinguish an encrypted transmission from an unencrypted one. Is there a setting that I can change that will make it resume scanning immediately so it can at least move on to another frequency with unencrypted traffic?

 

[Hit_Factor]

Set the talkgroup to skip.

 

[Tim-B]

I don't think there is a way to make it skip a talkgroup since it does not trunktrack. I am scanning the voice frequencies in conventional scanning mode. Although the receiver does not trunktrack it still decodes the talkgroup ID from the signal being transmitted on whatever frequency it has stopped on and it displays the talkgroup ID in a small pop up window. I checked the basic and advanced manuals and they show how to skip a specific frequency or memory channel but not a talkgroup. Do you know of a way to make it skip a talkgroup or resume scanning upon detecting encryption?

 

[Hit_Factor]

I guess I was thinking of a setting on a different receiver. I could not find a setting for skipping encrypted in the manuals or help file for CS-R30.

 

[Tim-B]

Oh well, thank you for looking. Sometimes I have to read something several times before I see it. I wasn't sure if I had missed it in the manual.

 

[buddrousa]

The only receiver I know that let's you pick stay or skip is the WHISTLER TRX scanners and the WS series that are in the same cases as the TRX scanners.

 

[Paco-Jerte]

The only receiver I know that let's you pick stay or skip is the WHISTLER TRX scanners and the WS series that are in the same cases as the TRX scanners.

+1 with my TRX-1

 

[kinglou0]

Do you know of a way to make it skip a talkgroup or resume scanning upon detecting encryption?

Already answered by Hit_Factor but the reason you can’t is that talkgroups are mostly useless to the R30. Really appreciate Icom showing P25 info, just wish they went the extra step and gave us the ability to store/use talkgroups.

I guess they figured that talkgroup functionality on a receiver that doesn’t have trunking capabilities was wasted time.

 

[Tim-B]

I would be happy with it just resuming scan when encountering encryption. What it does is just sit on the channel with audio muted until the transmission ends. If I press the monitor button I can hear the the garbled encryption sounds.

 

[merlin]

Considered a temporary lock out ?

 

[Tim-B]

Found It! I knew there had to be some obscure setting that would make it scan again immediately when encountering encryption. I noticed that when searching a range of frequencies if it encounters DMR it starts searching again so fast that you hardly noticed it stopped on a frequency. So I knew there had to be a way to make it do that with P25. Here is what that setting was:
Hit the menu button to bring up the settings menu and scroll down to "Display" and select it. In the display menu scroll down to "RX Popup" and select it. Turn that setting to OFF. I previously had it turned on and set to "RX Hold" and with that setting it would pop up a small window that shows the TGID if scanning a trunked P25 system in conventional mode. Well if the transmission was encrypted i guess it figured I wanted to sit there and look at the pop up window as long as the transmission was there so it muted the audio and left the pop up window on until the transmission stopped. After I turned that function off the receiver would start scanning again within about 1/4 of a second or less when it encountered an encrypted P25 transmission. So now I don't have to miss traffic on other frequencies while it sits there on mute.

 

[n3cs]

Wouldn't setting the voice squelch control (VSC) skip the noisy reception of encrypted channel?

 

[Tim-B]

The VCS only works in the analog modes.