gmasem
Newbie
Short version - I am looking for the cheapest scanner that does CTCSS to improve a feed. Used is fine, price being the most important factor. Any suggestions? Something I can find cheap on ebay would be great!
Long version with explanation....
I have a feed set up and finally running smoothly but came across a slight issue I would like to correct. At least one of the departments we are feeding dispatch on a couple different frequencies. The only solution I have come up with is to use a scanner with CTCSS to feed. Initially I was using RTL-SDR but had issues. Now I am using an old scanner I had here and getting the main channels without issue. However if I add different dispatch channels I am going to get a LOT of unwanted traffic.
I looked at one of the Baofeng radios and while I have few enough channels that the slow scanning would not be an issue, their implementation of CTCSS makes it useless. It doesn't make it skip channels just mutes audio...Unless I am misconfigured? As a workaround I can space the channels out so it scans the dispatch ones every 30 seconds or so, but I will still potentially miss some desired traffic. So that leads me to looking for a different scanner to feed from. I have searched and searched but not finding what I am looking for. Know of anything pretty inexpensive that does CTCSS?
Long version with explanation....
I have a feed set up and finally running smoothly but came across a slight issue I would like to correct. At least one of the departments we are feeding dispatch on a couple different frequencies. The only solution I have come up with is to use a scanner with CTCSS to feed. Initially I was using RTL-SDR but had issues. Now I am using an old scanner I had here and getting the main channels without issue. However if I add different dispatch channels I am going to get a LOT of unwanted traffic.
I looked at one of the Baofeng radios and while I have few enough channels that the slow scanning would not be an issue, their implementation of CTCSS makes it useless. It doesn't make it skip channels just mutes audio...Unless I am misconfigured? As a workaround I can space the channels out so it scans the dispatch ones every 30 seconds or so, but I will still potentially miss some desired traffic. So that leads me to looking for a different scanner to feed from. I have searched and searched but not finding what I am looking for. Know of anything pretty inexpensive that does CTCSS?
