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Webodisk

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Been there, done that, and have the t-shirt!! This is the entire reason why I bought a G-2, and the sole reason for me to even try P25C in the first place!! It has been a struggle!!

It seems that BOTH Unication products just will not work with this site!! All works wonderful for a while, and then, BOTH pagers behave the same, and become "deaf as a post" when I use the specific site info...

Like I've stated before, I'm literally in the shadow of this site as the sun goes down, but I can't hear it reliably on either one...

One question: Why do I need to "add a system" to the ONLY system that is programmed?? Full signal and "out of range" a few minutes later... In and "out of range" has been pretty constant for about SIX MONTHS!! I'll try to add the same system, that is the same as the only one that has been programmed for many years!! Neither one of these are "scanners", but they should be able to decode the same as either RadioShack ones I have...

Another question: Should I create a new system for each site that I want to listen to reliably??

A third question: How do I get P25C to work on P25T?? Yep!! I've resorted to listening to the voice channels, but they have traffic from TG's that I don't wish to hear at all...
Can you post your pps file so we can look at it ?
 

GTO_04

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Add a P25 Trunking system with just the Morton Hill site info and all the CC frequencies. Then create a knob position for that System (site) only. The pager will not look at anything else but site 2/4. Do not use FF for the site.

Will using FF for the site cause the G5 to look for other sites even though only one site is entered for this system?

GTO_04
 

Uni1

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When you use FF you are telling the pager to lock onto any site it can hear. The only good reason to use FF is if you are searching for unknown sites.
 

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Will using FF for the site cause the G5 to look for other sites even though only one site is entered for this system?

GTO_04

Yes it does, and one of the reasons why I love both of these little gems!!!

I first noticed the G-5 did this while I was looking to monitor the 2/4 site exclusively... I had only programmed this VHF site frequencies into PPS, and it would switch over to the 800MHZ site that I didn't even need an antenna for... My issue back then was that I only want to hear 2/4, so I switched from FF/FF to 2/4 and it worked!! Ever since November, that specific site can only be heard for a few minutes, and now "out of range"!!

I have experimented a bit and even programmed a site that I have no way of hearing at all with FF... Once I get close enough to it, the G-5 will gather all of the info it needs to lock onto EVERY site on WyoLink!! Same thing on G-2... Another neat thing is that I can enter one frequency, and add specific sites... They are the only ones that either one will hear, except for the 2/4 one I can literally see!!

Only one single frequency ,is all I have ever needed to have programmed for several years! This is why I have one knob dedicated to all of the statewide TG's I may encounter while traveling, and is the reason for my first post, and purchase of G-2...

I still don't understand why both of them can't decode it, while a simple scanner has no trouble at all...
 

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Looking at Wyolink in the data base all sites list an alternate control channel. If you only have one frequency programmed and the CC changes you will show OUT OF RANGE. Try programming all the frequencies for Morton Hill and see what happens.
 
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