6079smithw
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Do make a couple of backups. Store one in a safe place and carry the other when you travel.
You'll be glad you did if ever your SD card goes corrupt on the road near BFE.
I speaketh from experience.
SDS200 ordered
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You'll be glad you did if ever your SD card goes corrupt on the road near BFE.
I speaketh from experience.
wtp
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from Bales60 "I'd love to hear it in that Australia accent" .
is that where they type little lines and dots over vowels ??
is that where they type little lines and dots over vowels ??
Another quick question. I'm going to order some new cables. I currently have 75' of 400 running in though a window that I disconnect at night and shut the window, because I wasn't sure of a few things. I've since moved the antenna way closer to where the scanner is. I have the Omni X installed right now that telescopes from about 10'-20'. I'll now need 25' of 400 to get into the house and hook up to the Poly Phaser. My main question, I need about 8' of cable to get to the scanner from there, should I get 400Flex, or would something smaller be OK? Also, big thanks to @tvengr for helping with a few things.
Brales60, I used to bring my coax through the window like you. Didn’t want to drill a big hole for my LMR400 coax. I instead bought a 5 foot extension using RG 58. Where my satellite cable comes in the house, I expanded that hole for the RG58 to get through. Works great. No noticeable loss of signal. Goes to my 4 port connection.
Kinda of what I thought, thanks. Yeah, concrete block houses here and a big hole is a PITA, but I have some other stuff coming throught the wall in the same area.
Which Poly Phaser or similar brand do I need? I see different MHz listed for some of these things. Most of my stuff is in the 700 range.
Never mind, got one over at DX after talking with them. Oh yeah, my unit shipped today.
Scanner is out for delivery today. New cables should be here Tuesday, so I can make this more permanent and not have to run the cable through the window.
The jury is out on this, for sure clearer. Still a little garble, seems like some of them key up and drop off quick. It's for sure a cool unit. Guess I need to play with it some more. Omni X is still at 10', but can go up to 20'. The airport **** is cool, but analog and seems week. Volume needs to be raised on the local airport, I can hear the tower and pilots. It's about 5-7 miles away I'd guess. Be cool if they could do a smart sound like some of the newer TV's.
Can someone explain attenuator ? Thanks.
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The glossary in the RR Wiki is a great source for info:
Attenuator - The RadioReference Wiki
Thanks for that, it helps. I wonder if that has anything to do with one of my signals just having a tad of garble? Only tower I can see is quite away to the south.
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Don't forget to experiment with the filters if problems with reception persist. Check here for a guide for setting filters through the menu system:
SDS100/SDS200: - can i add or adjust individual filters for my sds100?
anyone know if theres is a way to adjust individual filters instead of just using global for all? example if im monitoring say tucson pd tucon fire and tucson medical each can have there own custom filter instead of what my global filter is set to?
Thanks again. I can't seem find filters in Sentinel. The scanner doesn't need to be plugged into my laptop does it?
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The scanner doesn't need to be connected to the laptop to actually change the filter settings in Sentinel, but they won't take effect until you connect the scanner and write to it.
Much easier to change settings on the fly in the scanner so you can see immediate results, and write to Sentinel to keep the settings you want.
In Sentinel... use the profile editor under the "Miscellaneous" tab for GLOBAL settings,
and use the favorites list editor for INDIVIDUAL settings:
for conventional systems at the department level, and for P25 systems under the sites tab
OK, this SDS200 is the bomb. Pouring rain, and barely any garble. I have the new cables installed, along with the lightning deal and will drill the big hole through the solid concrete wall tomorrow morning to make it more, turn it on when we want. I'll start messing with filters and other crap then. I did put my antenna all the way up, and I get the local airport great, including the pilots. Even catching a tad of the Seminole Gulf rail for their murder mystery deal they run.
Did You survive the Hurricane?
wtp
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i don't know about Brales60, but most came out OK in the county.
i sent him my address to stop by, so we will see.
i sent him my address to stop by, so we will see.
I did fine short of a ton of soffit damage. Thank goodness for a new roof, accordion and electric roll down shutters.
