PSREdit question with PSR-500...

[APX8000]

I've been looking at the evaluation version of PSREdit for the PSR-500. I monitor an EDACS system that uses 4 different towers. All 4 towers have different frequencies. I programmed all 4 using PSREdit and named them based on the location of each tower.

Now, all talkgroups appear on all 4 systems. The PD user in the field has to manually select which tower he has a better signal on. So I started programming talkgroups using PSRedit and assigned them to Scanlist 1.

If I select Trunking System Name - Tower 1 North, it shows all the talkgroups. When I select Tower 2 - South, none of the talkgroups appear in the software. I'm confused. How does the scanner know which system to scan when scanning the particular talkgroups?

With my Uniden for example, I program one system with multiple sites. Each site has a "quick key" to enable/disable that system. It then has a tag for talkgroups where I program it once and then a "quick key" to enable/disable them across all or some of the systems.

 

[mikey60]

I've been looking at the evaluation version of PSREdit for the PSR-500. I monitor an EDACS system that uses 4 different towers. All 4 towers have different frequencies. I programmed all 4 using PSREdit and named them based on the location of each tower.

Now, all talkgroups appear on all 4 systems. The PD user in the field has to manually select which tower he has a better signal on. So I started programming talkgroups using PSRedit and assigned them to Scanlist 1.

If I select Trunking System Name - Tower 1 North, it shows all the talkgroups. When I select Tower 2 - South, none of the talkgroups appear in the software. I'm confused. How does the scanner know which system to scan when scanning the particular talkgroups?

With my Uniden for example, I program one system with multiple sites. Each site has a "quick key" to enable/disable that system. It then has a tag for talkgroups where I program it once and then a "quick key" to enable/disable them across all or some of the systems.

Unfortunately multi-site EDACS systems have to be programmed as separate systems for each tower site. There's no way to link the sites into a single system.

You'll have to copy the talkgroups to each TSYS object.

Mike

 

[APX8000]

Thanks Mike...I figured that, but just wanted to make sure I wasen't missing something in the software.

 

[mikey60]

Thanks Mike...I figured that, but just wanted to make sure I wasen't missing something in the software.

What you can do in the software is to select all of the talkgroups associated with the first TSYS object, and then copy them to one of the other TSYS objects. Other than that, there's not a lot you can do.

Mike

 

[APX8000]

That's what I did. Then I set each of the 4 towers/TGRP to their own scanlist and scan whichever area I'm closest to since they are broadcasted over all 4 towers anyway.