"T" flashing on display but no sound

[humblegeo]

Quite often the "T" is flashing on my display indicating that my scanner is receiving a trunking control channel frequency but I don't get any audio during that time, some channels I do get audio with the flashing "T" , some I don't or intermittent. Is this a out of range antenna type issue or what's going on with this? If I pause it on a PD Law Dispatch channel, the "T" is flashing almost all the time but I only hear the audio come across every once in awhile.

Appreciate the education for newbee
Larry G

 

[avdrummerboy]

That's how trunking works. The T flashing means that it is receiving a trunked control channel signal, not necessarily that anyone is transmitting on the system at the time, so you will probably see it just flashing T a lot unless you are listening to a busy system.

When you hold it on a channel it will show the flashing T to indicate that it is listening to the control channel and when someone keys up on that talk group you will hear their audio.

 

[mikewazowski]

I've moved your thread to the Whistler forum as I'm guessing you've got a Whistler. It will be easier to help you if we knew what sort of scanner you've got.

 

[AggieCon]

Add a wildcard talkgroup to the trunked system, which will then play all group calls on the system. You should hear more after that.

 

[werinshades]

NXDN Trunking System

Sorry to revive an old thread, but here's a question. On my NXDN system, I'm seeing both flashing "S" and Flashing "T" while in Scan mode. I have it programmed as NXDN-C in the system and I have 22 frequencies programmed and 1 was listed as a control channel. I have my Scan Lists set up with different "Groups" as I call it. When one of my programmed talk groups is received, it alternates between flashing "T" and flashing "S". It appears the radio traffic is coming through.Is this programmed correctly? A little new to NXDN monitoring, so I thought I'd reach out to the experienced users. I've checked the on-line manual, but not too much on NXDN monitoring that I saw.