tvengr
Well Known Member
I don't see any problems which would prevent it from scanning. Are you able to receive NOAA weather?
I find it almost impossible that I am having a simulcast problem. With the nearest tower only about a mile away, I have a very strong signal. If I take the antenna right off the scanner, it is still hearing the control channel at 2 to 3 bars on the signal indicator. Only have been using the pull up antenna that comes with the scanner with it all way down.I already looked at your file and didn't see any problems.
I have base and mobile versions of this model. I've traveled around the west coast and tried to monitor systems with each the P25 GRE and an SDS-100, each on their own antenna. It's quite interesting to witness the difference in performance. If you get the system at all, the issue I've witnessed is some conversations are just missed on a non-simulcast capable receiver. Everything you've mentioned here points that way. Continue to fight the obvious and miss stuff. I know the SDS price is more than what most want to pay, but it's the only scanner choice that deals with this issue at this point in time.I find it almost impossible that I am having a simulcast problem.
Just to add to this. GRE-based scanners do a lot of things very well (like conventional P25 audio), but P25 simulcast/LSM/CQPSK isn’t one of those things.I have base and mobile versions of this model. I've traveled around the west coast and tried to monitor systems with each the P25 GRE and an SDS-100, each on their own antenna. It's quite interesting to witness the difference in performance. If you get the system at all, the issue I've witnessed is some conversations are just missed on a non-simulcast capable receiver. Everything you've mentioned here points that way. Continue to fight the obvious and miss stuff. I know the SDS price is more than what most want to pay, but it's the only scanner choice that deals with this issue at this point in time.
I guess you could dedicate a receiver and a directional antenna. Attenuate the signal to be the minimum needed to get a good decode rate. That's the best you can do with the GRE. The thing is, we truly never know what we've missed.