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I have been trying for couple days to hear anything coming from niagara university on saia. Anyone picking them up or are they no longer on saia? I have not heard a word from any of their talk groups. I have been monitoring the niagara falls and grand island site. For some reason I am having a issue picking up the niagara university saia site.
 

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I noticed that also. Last year I could get them off the Niagara Falls tower. Now, nothing on that tower and I get no signal off the NU tower. I thought would be the case as it's a little far from my location and not sure with how much power the site transmits.
 

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I used to hear them on nia falls tower., I have trouble picking up nia univ site. I have a omni x antenna outside. I would normally hear them with no issue. I wonder if they left saia. I programmed my sds100 with the old analog freq today and not heard anything
 

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Thanks, for some reason i can not pickup the NU site. I have no issues getting niagara falls or grand island sites.
Is it worth asking if you have looked for all control channels at the site? Seems to be a common error. See recent posts about lancaster, same complaints, same wrong conclusions.
 

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Is it worth asking if you have looked for all control channels at the site? Seems to be a common error. See recent posts about lancaster, same complaints, same wrong conclusions.
no i have not, i went off the database. I have never tried to look for other control channels. I will try and figure it out. tks
 

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no i have not, i went off the database. I have never tried to look for other control channels. I will try and figure it out. tks
They are listed in the DB. Control channels get rolled occasionally at all sites. If you need a listing, let me know
 

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i have that programmed in. That freq is in the database, for some reason i can not pick it up. I have no issue with nia falls or grand island
 

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i have all 3 programmed in on a site i have named. I even manually entered them in the quick save but am not picking them up. Are you in batavia and able to get them that far away?
 

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I am in Hamburg and receive them lima charlie.
you might have a good shot open and clear over the lake to hamburg. I am in south cheektowaga. I have the omni x on roof and still can not get NU site. I have played with all the settings/filters on the sds100. I also have a second pro comm antenna out side mounted on roof feed with a seperate cable and can not pick it up with that antenna either. Not sure what other saia sites you guys can pick up. I have no signal on olcott, olean, arcade, little valley, jamestown, white hill, angelica, franklinville and ocassionally ub cooke hall. I can get all the other sites without issues.
 

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you might have a good shot open and clear over the lake to hamburg. I am in south cheektowaga. I have the omni x on roof and still can not get NU site. I have played with all the settings/filters on the sds100. I also have a second pro comm antenna out side mounted on roof feed with a seperate cable and can not pick it up with that antenna either. Not sure what other saia sites you guys can pick up. I have no signal on olcott, olean, arcade, little valley, jamestown, white hill, angelica, franklinville and ocassionally ub cooke hall. I can get all the other sites without issues.
UB puts a very good signal into Cheektowaga. The other sites you shouldn't be able to hear, without height.
 

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I can pickup ub cooke site on 424.4625 cc3. The Weird part is i get a strong signal 5 bars and rssi -90 but i only get the "con+" icon for a second and it keeps disappering. I have the hold time set for 10 seconds but it does the same thing. It is like i am getting some interference that is killing the signal and then it returns. I have tried all the filters and changed the modulation with no luck. Just gonna keep playing with it
 

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Well after a lot of playing I am able as of this morning to pull in UB Cooke hall site. I was noticing my sds100 was locking into two control channels on that site 424.4625 and 424.525. I played with the settings and the IFX and am getting a strong signal on 424.525 (-91 rssi) as a control channel and it seems to be working. When i tested a new favorite list with 424.4625 the control channel would come in strong but just for a second and keep jumping off. It was not consitent. I had the hold time set for 10 seconds but it would lose it after 2-3 seconds. Trying to figure out some of this stuff give me a headache. Well hopefully it stays working and is not a fluke. Still nothing on the NU tower at my location.
 
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