NWI_Scanner_Guy
SCANNING THE AIRWAVES SINCE 1987
.....radio wise during this "down time" to keep yourselves busy?
I'm lucky enough (for now anyways) to be an essential employee at a hotel where I work the night shift. Since Gov. Pritzker's stay at home order took effect, our business has dropped off by anywhere between 80 to 90 percent, making my usually slow nights downright dead. Thankfully, I have an HP-2 to keep me 'entertained' at night, so that helps to relieve the boredom.
What I've recently taken to doing at night, since my boss won't allow any "outside" software programs to be downloaded to our work computers, is to create systems / favorites lists manually with the help of the extreme upgrade. I was already pretty proficient in setting up conventional system manually, but I had never done a trunked system manually before. I had always relied on Sentinel to do that for me. The first couple of trunked systems were hit and miss as I learned the hierarchy of systems, sites, departments and channels. I enter just the main and alternate control channel freqs and a couple of TGID's, set the system to ID Search and let it run for a few hours to see what "unknown" TGID's it receives, then use the RR database to look up the alpha tags for the ID's and then enter them manually. It's a good way to kill 4 to 5 hours a night.
So, any of y'all doing any new radio related projects / activities to help pass the time until you're sprung from confinement? I would love to hear of any such projects if you'd care to share.
I'm lucky enough (for now anyways) to be an essential employee at a hotel where I work the night shift. Since Gov. Pritzker's stay at home order took effect, our business has dropped off by anywhere between 80 to 90 percent, making my usually slow nights downright dead. Thankfully, I have an HP-2 to keep me 'entertained' at night, so that helps to relieve the boredom.
What I've recently taken to doing at night, since my boss won't allow any "outside" software programs to be downloaded to our work computers, is to create systems / favorites lists manually with the help of the extreme upgrade. I was already pretty proficient in setting up conventional system manually, but I had never done a trunked system manually before. I had always relied on Sentinel to do that for me. The first couple of trunked systems were hit and miss as I learned the hierarchy of systems, sites, departments and channels. I enter just the main and alternate control channel freqs and a couple of TGID's, set the system to ID Search and let it run for a few hours to see what "unknown" TGID's it receives, then use the RR database to look up the alpha tags for the ID's and then enter them manually. It's a good way to kill 4 to 5 hours a night.
So, any of y'all doing any new radio related projects / activities to help pass the time until you're sprung from confinement? I would love to hear of any such projects if you'd care to share.