I have a few PC's in the house and SDRTrunk runs in the background (24/7) on my downstairs PC. Others use it at times. I have 2 more PC's and a Raspberry Pi3B+ upstairs in my PC room.
I record so that if I am not around the scanner and something of interest is going on, or crime close to home, I can access it from anywhere and know whats going on. Trunking Recorder has a purge option that I set it for 16 days. I also use Unitrunker for recording and logging also and tag tg's of interest to later look up the radio id and identify the user. One upstairs PC runs DSDPlus 24/4 recording selectively and plays back thru Scanner Audio Recorder.
i want to go back here and ask u a question about this i set everything up like u said but the part where u say "That will keep one dongle in the 150mhz range, for those 2 control channels, and the other in the 160mhz range, for the 2 voice freqs" what do u mean by the 150mhz for 2 control channels? my CC are 152.6825 and 161.800 . the part i don't understand is keeping one dongle in the 150 for 2 CC. i only have 1 CC in the 150mhz. sorry it just caught my eye and i realized i don't understand that. i hope u can understand what i'm trying to say.
does this look right? i have the 152 CC set to tuner 00000202 and the 152 NBFM also set to tuner 00000202 and the same with 161 am i doing that correct?. i keep seeing that fade to and i will see active alot but not hear anything. and my control channels i had to tweak for example instead of 152.6825 like RR shows i'm using 152.6841 i tweaked this judging from the waterfall. oh and sometimes a encrypted channel will show fade and active.
i also want to ask you about this. i bought a splitter and some connecting wires for the j pole i am going to put up i'm still holding out on the LNA i think i want to wait and see how strong the signal is without it before i spend the money. but here is the splitter and connectors i bought what do u think will they work well with what i'm trying to do?
The definitions can be found here. I believe @maus92 indicated that fade indicates poor signal quality.
Where did you tweak the control channel? In the playlist editor? Control channels do not need to be tweaked. If that's how much you had to change it to line up the signal on the waterfall, than your PPM adjustment is not at zero.
STARS is mostly Phase 1, but is rolling out Phase 2 over time. The VSP is also planning to enable encryption at some point.
There is likely terrain blocking your direct line-of-sight to the closer transmit site. They could also be using lower power / directional antennas for coverage reasons, or perhaps to prevent interference that might affect the National Radio Quiet Zone.
ok i didn't know STARS was mostly phase 1 i know it says phase 2 on RR here Virginia Statewide Agencies Radio System (STARS) Trunking System, Statewide, Virginia and that's gonna suck if they go to encrypted my local town and county sheriffs office is already full encryption.
it was a purchase.. here is what my ppm is showing.... i adjusted the CC some according to the waterfall and i'm getting traffic just the same as when i use to not tweak it. hmmm
i was responding to @maus92 comment about STARS being mostly phase 1
i bought this splitter but after i got it i realized that the part where u screw in the dongles it is to big, the parts that connect it ...what adapter would u recommend i get to fix that?
ok instead of buyng all those adapters since i already have the sma adapters could i use this RF Coaxial Power Splitter Divider SMA Female Connector 1:3 3-way 380MHz-2500MHz | eBay instead ? would it work with a bias tee? i don't see anywhere that is says it will it just says power splitter.
