Software Suggestions

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So, just decided to jump on the SDR bandwagon.

At this time, I only want to monitor two systems to find more neighbor sites and unreported talkgroups.

I ask you vets to tell me what you are using.

Thanks in advance!

 

[BM82557]

SDRTrunk and DSDPlus Fastlane

 

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Thank you!

 

[bucket772]

OP25 for me. But it will not work for searching for new systems, as all the info needs to be inputted manually. With that said, it works great once the systems are programmed in. Very stable and I have two streams going off a Raspberry Pi 3. Two completely different software suites, that more or less do the same thing, sorta

Also SDR# for when I want to look around when I'm playing with the discovery+HF

 

[dave3825]

Best bet is DSDPlus FastLane as all you need to do is look around the spectrum in the areas of interest and when you land on a control channel, it will display the wacn, system/site id and nac if P25. Other flavors will give network id/site id and Ran or Color Code. Cap+ will just give color code and site number. Then since your a premium subscriber, you can search the database and see if what you find is existing or new.

 

[boatbod]

OP25 for me. But it will not work for searching for new systems, as all the info needs to be inputted manually. With that said, it works great once the systems are programmed in. Very stable and I have two streams going off a Raspberry Pi 3. Two completely different software suites, that more or less do the same thing, sorta

Also SDR# for when I want to look around when I'm playing with the discovery+HF

Actually that's not entirely true. In rx.py "curses" terminal variant, you can start the app without a trunk.tsv (but include -f <freq>) and then when the terminal comes up you can utilize the plots and adjusted the tuned freq with the "f" key. When you find a strong signal, press "s" to start the trunk decoding.

 

[bucket772]

Actually that's not entirely true. In rx.py "curses" terminal variant, you can start the app without a trunk.tsv (but include -f <freq>) and then when the terminal comes up you can utilize the plots and adjusted the tuned freq with the "f" key. When you find a strong signal, press "s" to start the trunk decoding.

True. Didn’t think about doing it that way. Haven’t ran a terminal for OP25 like that in some time

 

[boatbod]

True. Didn’t think about doing it that way. Haven’t ran a terminal for OP25 like that in some time

Ah yes, the web terminal doesn't have an equivalent to the "f" or "s" keys