Question about Nassau Cnty Pub Sfty EDACS

[rc2050a]

So I finally decided to program my scanner using the PC as opposed to manually. Purchased the USB serial adapter , somehow found the right driver online ( my laptop does not have a disk drive so I couldn't use the CD that came with the adapter ) and I was on my merry way. Very neat -- should have done it right off the bat but I am glad I learned how to manually program as well.
Anyway, one of the systems that I uploaded from the Radio Reference database is Nassau County Public Safety EDACS and I have a question:

Why does the Site name default to "Simulcast" -- what does that mean? I know I can edit it, but was curious why it defaults to that name.

Thank you.

 

[rc2050a]

Nevermind-- I see it in the RR Database:


Site Name
001 (1) Simulcast 01 866.18750a 02 866.33750a 03 866.58750c 04 866.73750 05 866.83750 06 866.90000 07 867.11250
08 867.17500 09 867.90000 10 868.17500 11 868.42500 12 868.57500 13 868.72500 14 868.65000

 

[dave3825]

( my laptop does not have a disk drive so I couldn't use the CD that came with the adapter )

If you have your laptop on a network, you could share the cd drive on a pc that has a working cd drive. then on the laptop, go in the my network places and find the shared cd drive drive and run the driver cd etc.
I have an older laptop and its either floppy or cd so if I need one or the other I just share them. Also you could put the cd in a networked pc create a new folder, copy the contents of the cd into that , and then share it..

Dave

 

[rc2050a]

Dave
My "main" computer is a Mac and I haven't set it up for Windows compatibilty as others on this site have. But since I was able to find the driver online and download it to the laptop that I have, I was OK.
Last night I cleaned up the "quick key" set-up and renamed some of the systems/sites/groups and I am enjoying this scanner even more.

 

[dave3825]

Using the pc software is amazing. But knowing how to do it manually is good also. I recently went to Atlantic City and pre programed everything i wanted to hear. I brought my laptop with everything I would need already stored on it cause they charge, in my opinion, too much for wi fi. Luckily I did not even need the laptop lol

 

[Rudy3145]

Does the Nassau County EDACS system have good coverage throughout the county? It only looks like they have 5 sites.

 

[rc2050a]

There's numerous Talk Groups. But I use it mainly for Lake Success PD.

 

[dave3825]

I live in east farmingdale and can say that I do get a good control channel signal, but some talk groups come in scratchy. when I sleep out, near tanger in deer park, I am barely pick them up. In Nassau however, around levittown everything sounds pretty good. Out in