Hi all, I'm monitoring the Chautauqua county (NY) public safety system on my Uniden BCD536HP scanner. It is a VHF system and I was aware of the monitoring difficulties with that type of system in the initial firmware release; I am up to date on firmware however at this time.
I was wondering if anyone else ever had issues with the scan time on this or other kinds of trunked systems. I find We have roughly 13 talkgroups on our system, which is certainly not a large number. I am often missing transmissions because the scanner often takes 5 seconds or more to get through these talkgroups in Scan mode. Add in some extra chatter, and I could (and often do) miss entire fire dispatches or PD calls because of the excessive lag time.
I have my talkgroups organized into 3 Fav Lists (I didn't dive too much into the memory architecture when I first got the radio, and haven't bothered to change it since). I tried listening to just one list with 2 talkgroups in it to see if that was the problem; if I skipped a transmission on one, it took around 3 seconds to get back to it again (even with just one other TG being scanned).
I am on the edge of the county, but there doesn't appear to be a signal quality issue; I never have dropped or garbled transmissions.
Am I just too used to conventional systems and expecting too much out of the scanner? (This is my first exposure to trunked systems at all, let alone digital ones.) Is this "lag time" standard for the radio to follow the control data and "know" what is happening on the system? Or is there some setting or option that might help the problem?
(I noticed the live feed online for Chaut. county on RR, found here,
Chautauqua County Public Safety South - Digital
doesn't seem to have the delay issue; I think I saw somewhere along the way that he is using a 436HP which if I understand correctly is basically identical to my 536, just in portable form.)
I was wondering if anyone else ever had issues with the scan time on this or other kinds of trunked systems. I find We have roughly 13 talkgroups on our system, which is certainly not a large number. I am often missing transmissions because the scanner often takes 5 seconds or more to get through these talkgroups in Scan mode. Add in some extra chatter, and I could (and often do) miss entire fire dispatches or PD calls because of the excessive lag time.
I have my talkgroups organized into 3 Fav Lists (I didn't dive too much into the memory architecture when I first got the radio, and haven't bothered to change it since). I tried listening to just one list with 2 talkgroups in it to see if that was the problem; if I skipped a transmission on one, it took around 3 seconds to get back to it again (even with just one other TG being scanned).
I am on the edge of the county, but there doesn't appear to be a signal quality issue; I never have dropped or garbled transmissions.
Am I just too used to conventional systems and expecting too much out of the scanner? (This is my first exposure to trunked systems at all, let alone digital ones.) Is this "lag time" standard for the radio to follow the control data and "know" what is happening on the system? Or is there some setting or option that might help the problem?
(I noticed the live feed online for Chaut. county on RR, found here,
Chautauqua County Public Safety South - Digital
doesn't seem to have the delay issue; I think I saw somewhere along the way that he is using a 436HP which if I understand correctly is basically identical to my 536, just in portable form.)