I’ve heard people say they’ve picked up things across state before so with certain talkgroups like the statewide and regional state police channels does that mean I can hear units that key up across the region or just within my local tower sites?You aren’t going to hear the entire system with any scanner/pager, as you’ll only hear radios affiliated with tower(s) within your range of reception (+/- 20 miles or so).
You will hear any units (statewide or out of area) that affliate and key up on your local site, but if they are not affiliated with your site/tower you will not be able to hear them, as @jtwalker said. Keep in mind, if someone from out of area is affliated then you will be able to hear the traffic on that TG as long as they are affiliated, when they move out of the area you will no longer be able to hear that TG.I’ve heard people say they’ve picked up things across state before so with certain talkgroups like the statewide and regional state police channels does that mean I can hear units that key up across the region or just within my local tower sites?
That has nothing to do with using a Unication G5. They have the same limitations that any P25 digital scanner has in that regard.I’ve heard people say they’ve picked up things across state before so with certain talkgroups like the statewide and regional state police channels does that mean I can hear units that key up across the region or just within my local tower sites?
That helps. Thank you!That has nothing to do with using a Unication G5. They have the same limitations that any P25 digital scanner has in that regard.
That makes sense. I have heard some out of area traffic mainly on DNR/USFS fire management channels so that’s why I was wonderingYou will hear any units (statewide or out of area) that affliate and key up on your local site, but if they are not affiliated with your site/tower you will not be able to hear them, as @jtwalker said. Keep in mind, if someone from out of area is affliated then you will be able to hear the traffic on that TG as long as they are affiliated, when they move out of the area you will no longer be able to hear that TG.
great reply , last years forest fire in northern montmorency Co they had to bring i a cow to handle the radio traffic that overloaded the MPSCS towers for the MSP. yes a cow the Airplane requested not a sow.Most TG on the system are effectively geofenced to their county of origin, and one ring of towers around that county. If a user tries to use a TG on a tower it is not authorized, they will get an "out of range" type of warning. Part of the reason for this, is to keep the lower capacity towers usable. This also keeps TGs usable, as the system will not allow transmissions that all the current users are not able to receive. (IE, if one tower has no repeaters available in any location, it will not allow anyone to transmit on that TG anywhere in the system.)
great reply , last years forest fire in northern montmorency Co they had to bring i a cow to handle the radio traffic that overloaded the MPSCS towers for the MSP. yes a cow the Airplane requested not a sow.
Cell On WheelsWhat is a cow?
What the radio one is called is actually a TOW
Tower On Wheels
They're still SOWs.When did MPSCS change the designation? It used to be SOW.
I think the COW is its own site, like a repeater for mutual aid/tac channels. I dont remember if its the fire DMChalmers mentioned, but there was a large fire in the area a year or so ago and it was used as a local repeater, not on MPSCS.... there was not good service on MPSCS and the simplex channels had poor range.What is a cow?
Excuse me if i'm wrong but the DNR spotter called for a COW when things became overloaded.They're still SOWs.
I'm trying to figure out what @dmchalmers thinks a cow is. A COW doesn't handle MPSCS radio traffic.