Pro-95 said:
loumaag said:
You can't put more than one EDACS site in a bank unless there is no LCN conflict.
Ok no conflicts with common freq's in any single bank.
That is well and good if...
Pro-95 said:
EDACS LCN numbers can only go as high as 25 real frequencies; LCN's 26-31 are status signals. What all this basically means is that you can't do what you did in Bank 0 and maybe others.
I can't have several geographically seperated sites in the same bank if the amount of listed frequencies exceed 25? Even if there is several 3-4 frequency sites in the same bank?
You can't have any EDACS sharing if both of them have a LCN 02 for example. LCN 02 for any system has to be in X02 slot of the X Bank. Since most EDACS systems use LCN's 1, 2, 3, etc., you can't put more than one in a bank. That is what is meant by LCN confilict, not the frequencies.
Pro-95 said:
On all Trunking Frequencies, take the Delay off. You don't want the delay to hold you on a trunking frequency under any circumstaces. For that matter, I would cut the ID Delay (ms) to about 500.
Ok.
Combine banks 5 & 6 into one bank. It is the same system, you really don't need to seperate it, you will only receive one CC at at time
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So Moto and EDACS are different in regards to how many freq's you can have in a bank and common freq's don't matter, right? The two Moto sites are side by side in the overall UCAN scheme of things. It would seem as though you could receive two CC's traveling down the highway between SLC and DELLE. I could be wrong though.
EDACS and Moto are different in that since EDACS uses a LCN scheme, the frequency you program into a certain slot must match what the actual radios in the field have in certain slots (although that is a pretty loose comparison). If 859.7875 is expected to be LCN 2 then you and the real radios in the field expect to find it the 2nd listed frequency. That is the only place it can be and work. Motorola uses channel numbers, those crazy hex numbers you see sometimes when working with base and offset for UHF/VHF systems. In any case the same type of scheme is used at 800 & 900 MHz so the order makes no difference as how you put them in, nor how many you put it. Remember your 95 is like real radios in that it uses CC mode only. You don't need anything programed but the CC's for Moto (of course unless you are sure what they are, it is best to put all of known frequencies in so you don't miss anything.) You can take a very large motorola SmartZone system and if you know all of the CC's (and alt cc's) for the system, you can just put them in a bank and drive around all day long and your 95 will track wonderfully. Might you be in range of two CC's at the same time, well yes, but this really isn't much of an issue for scanner people as ususally you are limiting what TG's you want to hear anyway, so it will look at one, then the other as you move. Remember what I said earlier, it is always best to put seperate Moto Systems in seperate banks, but you can combine all the sites of a single system into one bank.
Have fun on the trip.
