Pro 96 And Apco

[tbharper]

When I Downloaded The Kentucky State Police Using Win 96 I Imported From Rr Data Base Should It Show Apco Anywhere On The Win 96 Program Or Should It Just Show Fm Like It Does Know

 

[KMA367]

When I Downloaded The Kentucky State Police Using Win 96 I Imported From Rr Data Base Should It Show Apco Anywhere On The Win 96 Program Or Should It Just Show Fm Like It Does Know

In Win96, and on your Pro-96 scanner, it'll just say FM. The scanner will recognize the signals as analog or digital and "decode" the digital ones automagically. FM is the proper mode setting for P25 digital (conventional), as there is no PL or DPL with digital transmissions. Digital uses a Network Access Code (NAC) rather than PL/DPL, and it's transparent to the scanner.

 

[lowboy654]

If he has it set to mot or fm mode it should still work right?

 

[KMA367]

If he has it set to mot or fm mode it should still work right?

I thiink KSP are conventional rather than trunked, so I don't believe there would be any reason to set it to MOT (trunked). You're right, it may still work, but I'm not in range of either a trunked or a digital system to check it out.

OK, I've just reset some analog conventional freqs to "MO" mode in my scanner and they're working normally. So for analog, at least, it doesn't seem to matter. It wouldn't seem that digital should act any different, so MO might to be OK.

AFAIK though, you would not want to set conventional digital freqs to "closed" mode, since that would lock them out... they'd not be in any "talkgroup" or accompanied by a PL or DCS tone. But that's another issue altogether.

 

[lowboy654]

Yup the 96 knows what to do when it comes to digital as far as setting it to FM or MOT mode, I have not tried it in the AM mode yet, But as far as i know it should go into the DG mode if that is what it is receiving. it should also display m96 as that would be a APCO-25 system.

 

[KMA367]

APCO/Digital indicator on Pro-96 display

When I Downloaded The Kentucky State Police Using Win 96 I Imported From Rr Data Base Should It Show Apco Anywhere On The Win 96 Program Or Should It Just Show Fm Like It Does Know

The only time you'll see any indication of (APCO) Digital is on the scanner itself when it's actually receiving a digital signal, at which time Dg or DG will temporarily display in the upper right corner of the display (where the FM/AM/MO etc normally is). See below.

I've got a page that illustrates/explains the Pro-96's display characters at http://members.cox.net/kma367/pro96-screen.pdf

 

[6D75]

Harry,

You are correct, KSP is conventional rather than trunked.

 

[lowboy654]

Harry,

You are correct, KSP is conventional rather than trunked.

we know that, the bottom line here is that the 96 will goto the DG mode no matter what. if it receives a digital transmission.

 

[rdale]

But if it you set up your bank & freq for MOT, it will never listen to those channels for voice.

 

[DonS]

I've got a page that illustrates/explains the Pro-96's display characters at ...

That looks remarkably similar to the PDF I created a couple of years ago:
http://www.starrsoft.com/software/win96/PRO-96Display.pdf