Monitoring individual trunked site with APX

[Huntercw]

Hello, I know about the NAS method being such a hot topic so I'm not going to get into that. I have done ample amounts of reading many threads and have learned a lot so I appreciate everyone's knowledge on this forum. From my research, it seems that while not the most precise but the most absolutely safe way is conventional scanning of the trunked frequency of the site(s). I understand I would hear every talkgroup using that site, but it is not very active for more than a couple of talkgroups. My question is, would I need to put all the voice frequency's and control channel frequency's in or just the voice frequency's, again I am not talking about programming a trunking system in the radio, I am referring to entering frequency's from a multi-site trunked system as a conventional system. Thank you.

Also, if I were to hit the nuisance delete button during a transmission I didn't care about, would it mute that entire talkgroup or just that users UID?

 

[GTR8000]

If you program the control channel as a conventional channel, the radio is going to hang on that frequency because of the constant carrier. Best not to program it, but of course if the control channel rolls and that frequency becomes a traffic channel, you won't hear anything on it because it's not programmed.

Oh and when you nuisance delete while scanning conventional channels, you're knocking the entire frequency out of the scan list, not a talkgroup as would happen when scanning via the control channel. For the record, there is no way to nuisance delete a single UID no matter what scan method or scan list type you're using, that's not a thing.

 

[Huntercw]

Ah, I see, so there's more caveats than just hearing every talkgroup when setting it up this way. So the site has 3 control channels and 4 voice channels, I guess I will just program the voice frequency's and see how that goes, and that makes sense about the nuisance delete, I guess the radio doesn't even realize they are talkgroups anyway when its programmed like that, it just thinks its a conventional frequency. Thank for the info!

 

[N4KVE]

One of the towns near me has a small trunking system. For a while I’d just listen to the freq’s conventionally. There wasn’t much activity, & it worked reasonably well. I’d hear the meter reader from time to time, but other than that, it worked. But I wouldn’t attempt that on a large county system as it’d just jump from one conversation to another.

 

[Huntercw]

One of the towns near me has a small trunking system. For a while I’d just listen to the freq’s conventionally. There wasn’t much activity, & it worked reasonably well. I’d hear the meter reader from time to time, but other than that, it worked. But I wouldn’t attempt that on a large county system as it’d just jump from one conversation to another.

Did you program the CC freq's? Did you miss transmissions?

 

[N4KVE]

Did you program the CC freq's? Did you miss transmissions?

All frequencies, & when the control channel came up, I nuisance deleted it, & was good for the rest of the day. It was a very small system with rarely 2 conversations at a time.