NEXEDGE Question

[millam]

I monitor a site with 7 neighbors. This TG6300 only shows up on one site 10 that I can find. Is there anyway
that I can tell which site a transmission is coming from. Logs, Event files that kind of thing. The only
software that I have to decode NEXEDGE is DSDPlus, is there any other for a win computer. DSDFME
is too complicated for me. TG6300 is not in the vicinity of site 10 by the conversations heard so I assume
its a from a neighbor (?) or close enough to talk to.

Mil

 

[mwjones]

On a trunked system, you will only hear a talkgroup on a specific site if there's a radio affiliated with that talkgroup on that site. I'm not fully versed on NEXEDGE systems, but in most trunked radios, they will automatically affiliate with the tower with the strongest signal, so sometimes you'll hear an odd talkgroup, because one radio got a stronger signal from the next-closest tower to where they operate (We don't have a statewide system here in Texas, but when visiting family in Kansas, I heard radio traffic a couple of counties away on the Statewide P25 system because of a radio affiliation on that site I was monitoring, once the user unregistered from the site, I no longer heard the normally very busy talkgroup).

As far as I know, there's nothing being sent over the air that indicates the site of origin that DSDPlus or any other application could decode, so you'd have to be in close proximity of the transmitting radio and monitoring the repeater input frequency they're talking on - an option not very practical for what you're trying to discover.

 

[millam]

On a trunked system, you will only hear a talkgroup on a specific site if there's a radio affiliated with that talkgroup on that site. I'm not fully versed on NEXEDGE systems, but in most trunked radios, they will automatically affiliate with the tower with the strongest signal, so sometimes you'll hear an odd talkgroup, because one radio got a stronger signal from the next-closest tower to where they operate (We don't have a statewide system here in Texas, but when visiting family in Kansas, I heard radio traffic a couple of counties away on the Statewide P25 system because of a radio affiliation on that site I was monitoring, once the user unregistered from the site, I no longer heard the normally very busy talkgroup).

As far as I know, there's nothing being sent over the air that indicates the site of origin that DSDPlus or any other application could decode, so you'd have to be in close proximity of the transmitting radio and monitoring the repeater input frequency they're talking on - an option not very practical for what you're trying to discover.

Kinda figured that was the way it would be. The TG was in a neighboring county from the site I was hearing it on.
Trouble is the county doesn't have any sites in that network. No licenses either. Something going on I can't see yet.
Thanks for confirming what I think I already know. I'll get back to digging. Take care....

Mil