Now That ATCS Is Mostly Gone

[ak7an]

All of the hardware is in place, they just need to "flip the switch"...

Union Pacific detectors are, as far as I know all running on Ritron analog radios, at least every one that I have seen and or worked on, so not sure of which switch I would flip to magically have the broadcast on NXDN. Even though we all have NX series mobiles and hand held converting every defect detector to NXDN would be a monumental task and expense. As you have so eloquently stated, the RR's love to spend money.., and thinking ahead goes about as fast as our system velocity these days. lol
Cheers
Ed
AK7AN

 

[burner50]

All of the hardware is in place, they just need to "flip the switch"...

Union Pacific detectors are, as far as I know all running on Ritron analog radios, at least every one that I have seen and or worked on, so not sure of which switch I would flip to magically have the broadcast on NXDN. Even though we all have NX series mobiles and hand held converting every defect detector to NXDN would be a monumental task and expense. As you have so eloquently stated, the RR's love to spend money.., and thinking ahead goes about as fast as our system velocity these days. lol
Cheers
Ed
AK7AN

Railroads would love nothing more than to get rid of TDD’s or at least make them not broadcast.

The really important ones could easily be tied into a signal system to hold signals ahead of protected structures then dispatch gets to see the notification.

Regardless I never worked in the signal department, but the maintainers I spoke with gave me the impression that the TDD’s were being upgraded. Perhaps that never happened before the mandate was dropped.

I don’t actually think that the railroads will ever actually switch to NXDN until they’re forced to, but most of the pieces are in place. Considering the number of NXDN radios that were already rolled out a few thousand TDD’s wouldn’t take much.

 

[kg6nlw]

I hope not either.. because SDRTrunk, which is what I'm planning to switch my feeds to next year as time permits, still doesn't support NXDN sadly.

You should use DSDPlus as it supports NXDN. I do believe SDRAngel does as well.

Regards,

-Frank C.