Turn off alpha tags in SDRTrunk or Broadcastify

[roger_wilco]

I recently started a new broadcast feed. The alpha tags being sent to Broadcastify are meaningless. (Possibly they are to do with some internal routing in the trunking system?) They are distracting and I would like to turn them off, either within SDRTrunk or some option at Broadcastify. I have the "Broadcasting Alpha Tags" feed option turned off in the Broadcastify feed management options but Broadcastify is still displaying them to listeners. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks for your time.

 

[mtindor]

I recently started a new broadcast feed. The alpha tags being sent to Broadcastify are meaningless. (Possibly they are to do with some internal routing in the trunking system?) They are distracting and I would like to turn them off, either within SDRTrunk or some option at Broadcastify. I have the "Broadcasting Alpha Tags" feed option turned off in the Broadcastify feed management options but Broadcastify is still displaying them to listeners. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks for your time.

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[roger_wilco]

Example? Screenshot?

 

[mtindor]

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I had no idea that SDRTrunk would even send alpha tags. However, I wouldn't consider that an alpha tag. That's something else from the trunked system being sent which likely shouldn't be sent at all. If you truly know that it's coming from SDRTrunk, you might want to bring it up in an SDRTrunk post (or better yet post on their Google Group or Discord. Is that DMR?

 

[Enforcer52]

TO is the unit id of the receiving unit, i.e. Dispatcher, FROM is the unit id of the calling unit, and channel is channel. Lots of folks keep up with unit id's and when possible tie them to a specific unit number and/or officer in the alias fields.

It is not completely useless when dealing with a large system. Feeding just 1 specific ems channel it may seem to be useless to some. SDRTrunk automatically sends this info, there is no setting to turn it on or off. The IDs are also used with SDRTrunk to weed out duplicate transmissions.