I wonder if they're going to allow the use of Phase 1, once they add more frequencies? The audio on MTO sounds terrible, I can't imagine OPP or EMS being any better considering they're also Phase 2.
MTO Audio
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The MTO Mobiles themselves sounded fine to me. It was the dispatch consoles that sound terrible. I've heard some sort of "buzzing" or vibrating during transmissions. Not sure If someone's phone is going off nearby?
Muxlow
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I do see some more P2 use off the sites I monitor. They all just had a single P2 channel but most of the sites now have 2 of them other then Sarnia. And I've seen the Sarnia site at capacity a couple times, so that extra voice channel would be handy for them.
At the TMC, they don't use a headset for the radio; Rather, it is a goose-neck mic. I'm betting they don't exactly speak right into the mic properly. It sounded bad on analog and it isn't any better now.
I listen to the MTO at work for ****s & giggles. Audio doesn’t sound too bad to me.
w3rwn
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In the olden days of analog conventional, the MTO Patrols had Motorola Consolettes with desk mics.
Motorola paddle type desk mics had more ways of being misused, than used properly.
Option #1. Imagine a Patrol Office in a garage. All hard surfaces that reflect sound, concrete floor, wooden government desk, metal roller chair, 4 drawer metal file cabinet with government forms for every purpose, and a Mitrek consolette on top of the file cabinet with a paddle desk mic.
The patrol person would stand about 3 feet from the mic, push the PTT paddle with a finger, and give road report audio with the reverb of an empty church.
Option #2 Patrol person picks up desk mic in one hand, fingers supporting the bottom, thumb on the PTT paddle.
He chokes-up on the mic like it's a hand mic, 1" from his mouth, and gives road report audio overdriven, with Moto Instantaneous Deviation Control (limiter) clamping down hard.
One of the benefits of the Moto hand Mic on digital P25 or DMR radios is the much better audio processing in the mic and radio.
Garbage in / Garbage out with P25 or DMR digital.
Whether on a scanner or over DSDPlus, the P25 audio is clear, either through speakers or headphones, in my experience.
