troymail
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They must have been practicing for months -- I heard them "exercising" off and on for a while now and as recently as yesterday....
Guess these days, the more practice, the better.
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They must have been practicing for months -- I heard them "exercising" off and on for a while now and as recently as yesterday....
Guess these days, the more practice, the better.
SkyPager
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I'm still struggling with the USNA system, this time on my PSR-500. Not a peep. I have USNA and Ft. Meade channels (frequencies) programmed as well as all of the TG's for the USNA. I have it as a P25 AUTO. Do I need to adjust the Multi-site mode? This is really strange, can't figure it out. Suggestions welcome. The HP436 works fine now that I have added the Ft Meade freqs.
troymail
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Easier to Read Pro-651/652/106/197 - WS1040/1065 - PSR 500/600 Digital Scanner Manual
Multi-Site (Motorola/P25 only): Used with Motorola Networked and P25 trunked radio systems. The multi-site feature mainly concerns how the scanner "looks" at the control channels you have programmed into a particular system object. Default is Off. [8] See also [15].
Press ◄ or ► to select:
Off - the scanner will find the first usable control channel in the control channel list and use it to track the system.
Roam - while (you are) moving, the scanner will attempt to lock on the best site it can find. The scanner will always attempt to lock on to control channels where the decoding quality is greater than 'Threshold Hi', and will search for new control channels when the decoding quality of a control channel drops below 'Threshold Lo' (see next entries below). If no control channels are available that meet the Threshold Hi criteria, the scanner will seek the best control channel to use, and continue checking periodically for a new control channel that meets the Threshold Hi criteria.
Stat - intended to allow you to scan through all decent quality control channels while stationary (say, at home or work) so that you can hear all of the available traffic on all of the available receivable decent quality control channels depending on the Check All CC setting below. [8]
Press ◄ or ► to select:
Off - the scanner will find the first usable control channel in the control channel list and use it to track the system.
Roam - while (you are) moving, the scanner will attempt to lock on the best site it can find. The scanner will always attempt to lock on to control channels where the decoding quality is greater than 'Threshold Hi', and will search for new control channels when the decoding quality of a control channel drops below 'Threshold Lo' (see next entries below). If no control channels are available that meet the Threshold Hi criteria, the scanner will seek the best control channel to use, and continue checking periodically for a new control channel that meets the Threshold Hi criteria.
Stat - intended to allow you to scan through all decent quality control channels while stationary (say, at home or work) so that you can hear all of the available traffic on all of the available receivable decent quality control channels depending on the Check All CC setting below. [8]
Definitely sounds like a programming issue. I was over in Montgomery County on Wednesday, and was listening to USNA using my HP-2.
There is another passage in the reference that Troy provided:
"For Multi-site systems, program each site into its own Scan List first to see how well the site receives in different locations or conditions. See also Analyzing Trunking Systems.
I would only use the Multi-Site Roam setting if there was only one control channel available at a time to monitor. This may be the case if you are located on the fringe of several weak sites. Set Threshold Hi to around 85 and Threshold Lo to about 55 for a wider threshold range than the default 95 Hi and 75 Lo. You don't need 95% signal quality to lock on to a site. This will monitor the strongest control channel and look for another only when the signal strength falls below the 'Threshold Lo' setting.
I don't like the Roam setting because it only monitors 1 strong control channel (site) which defeats the whole 'multi-site' concept IMHO. Yes, there may be different traffic on any other receivable control channels you have in the system that aren't being monitored. The Multi-Site Stat setting with Check All CC set to On will receive more different traffic whether you are roaming or stationary. It will monitor all receivable sites. My personal experience has given me the best results by programming each site as one system and putting it in its own Scan List and setting Multi-Site to Off for each system. You are usually in range of only 5-10 sites at any given location anyway so that's only 5-10 Scan Lists. This way you can see which sites are receivable by monitoring one Scan List at a time and looking for that little in the upper left of the display.
If you don't want to waste that many Scan Lists on one multi-site system, put all the known good receivable sites for each location into one system assigned to one Scan List, set the Multi-Site setting to Stat and set Check All CC to On. This will monitor all control channels and sites. Or, a combination of both methods; put all the strong sites in one Scan List and the intermittent or fussy sites in their own list so you can enable those when conditions/locations are favorable. The ultimate goal is to make your scanner monitor only strong (receivable) control channels.
These are just my suggestions. You will have to experiment with different ways to find what works best for you. Factors like how busy the multi-site system is, how much traffic you want to listen to on that system, and how many other systems you want to listen to will determine the best way for you to setup each multi-site system."
There is another passage in the reference that Troy provided:
"For Multi-site systems, program each site into its own Scan List first to see how well the site receives in different locations or conditions. See also Analyzing Trunking Systems.
I would only use the Multi-Site Roam setting if there was only one control channel available at a time to monitor. This may be the case if you are located on the fringe of several weak sites. Set Threshold Hi to around 85 and Threshold Lo to about 55 for a wider threshold range than the default 95 Hi and 75 Lo. You don't need 95% signal quality to lock on to a site. This will monitor the strongest control channel and look for another only when the signal strength falls below the 'Threshold Lo' setting.
I don't like the Roam setting because it only monitors 1 strong control channel (site) which defeats the whole 'multi-site' concept IMHO. Yes, there may be different traffic on any other receivable control channels you have in the system that aren't being monitored. The Multi-Site Stat setting with Check All CC set to On will receive more different traffic whether you are roaming or stationary. It will monitor all receivable sites. My personal experience has given me the best results by programming each site as one system and putting it in its own Scan List and setting Multi-Site to Off for each system. You are usually in range of only 5-10 sites at any given location anyway so that's only 5-10 Scan Lists. This way you can see which sites are receivable by monitoring one Scan List at a time and looking for that little in the upper left of the display.
If you don't want to waste that many Scan Lists on one multi-site system, put all the known good receivable sites for each location into one system assigned to one Scan List, set the Multi-Site setting to Stat and set Check All CC to On. This will monitor all control channels and sites. Or, a combination of both methods; put all the strong sites in one Scan List and the intermittent or fussy sites in their own list so you can enable those when conditions/locations are favorable. The ultimate goal is to make your scanner monitor only strong (receivable) control channels.
These are just my suggestions. You will have to experiment with different ways to find what works best for you. Factors like how busy the multi-site system is, how much traffic you want to listen to on that system, and how many other systems you want to listen to will determine the best way for you to setup each multi-site system."
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marksmith
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Some good ideas there. Agree with the multistage roam criticism. Would much rather put different sites in different scanlists so that the origin of the transmissions can be determined. Especially if there is likely to be different comms on each site.
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troymail
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Noticing several calls on the "JBA Ramp Control" (25230) talkgroup today where the call is to "PAX Control". I didn't see any indication it was patched in any way. Is Andrews servicing PAX or is this talkgroup possibly labeled incorrectly?
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PAX is Air Force speak for passengers.
troymail
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Ah, ok... maybe that's it.
Air Force -- yeah, they are a different breed. When I was in the Army, we did "PT" - they did "aerobics".
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Can someone that can receive Washington Navy Yard give a listen to 22780. It is marked as Security in the Database, I suspect this is NSF Carderock Security Forces based on traffic and callsigns but would like someone local to confirm.
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