Debated if this is the right forum, or if the PSR500 forum is most appropriate... but... here we have it:
>Most< of my monitoring centers around monitoring a local Motorola Type II Smartnet system. (Warren County Ohio).
Since a week, or so, ago, I have noticed that, all of a sudden, usually on initial power-up, the scanner will stop on a talk group, the LED will be lit, as that is the way I have chosen to set it up, yet, I hear nothing. Talk group is displayed, LED is ON, yet all is silent. IT will hang there indefinately until I hit "Scan", like the scanner is "hung".
Similiarly, on occasion, the scanner will stop on a talk group, and all that is heard is "noise", i.e. open squelch with noise, no voice detetected/received. IT will hang there until "Scan" is pressed.
In either case, hitting "Scan" right away will "knock it out of this mode" and it appears to scan thru, and immediately re-stop on that offending talk group and start picking up the voice as it normally would, and SHOULD have the first time IMO.
This appears to be isolated to this particular Smartnet system, and does not appear to occur on any other monitored system I have programmed, which spans several P25s as well as the OH MARCS Motorola Type II SmartZone Omnilink system.
What is interesting about this, and why it is raising my eyebrows a little bit, is that this Smartnet system has always been rock-solid and NEVER displayed such behavior before---unitl now. IT is usually the "standard" I use to judge if things are working OK, as it is a decades old analog 800 system, which the 500 seems to handle with unmatched eloquence.
Certainly, something could have changed with the system itself causing this, but it did just start happening, virtually overnight, after almost a year of never noticing this issue before.
I am also very familiar with this system as I was once a fire fighter for one of the stations covered by this system. A little research on my end has NOT turned up any architecture changes in the system. They are preparing to migrate to Ohio's P25 system much later this year. As of right now, they are "living with the system until that occurs". I interpret this as "not spending any money on this old system pending the upcoming migration".
Is it possible that something has gone south in the scanner, or is this behavior known or otherwise explainable?
Just seems odd to me.....
In any case, thanks for any wisdom in advance.
>Most< of my monitoring centers around monitoring a local Motorola Type II Smartnet system. (Warren County Ohio).
Since a week, or so, ago, I have noticed that, all of a sudden, usually on initial power-up, the scanner will stop on a talk group, the LED will be lit, as that is the way I have chosen to set it up, yet, I hear nothing. Talk group is displayed, LED is ON, yet all is silent. IT will hang there indefinately until I hit "Scan", like the scanner is "hung".
Similiarly, on occasion, the scanner will stop on a talk group, and all that is heard is "noise", i.e. open squelch with noise, no voice detetected/received. IT will hang there until "Scan" is pressed.
In either case, hitting "Scan" right away will "knock it out of this mode" and it appears to scan thru, and immediately re-stop on that offending talk group and start picking up the voice as it normally would, and SHOULD have the first time IMO.
This appears to be isolated to this particular Smartnet system, and does not appear to occur on any other monitored system I have programmed, which spans several P25s as well as the OH MARCS Motorola Type II SmartZone Omnilink system.
What is interesting about this, and why it is raising my eyebrows a little bit, is that this Smartnet system has always been rock-solid and NEVER displayed such behavior before---unitl now. IT is usually the "standard" I use to judge if things are working OK, as it is a decades old analog 800 system, which the 500 seems to handle with unmatched eloquence.
Certainly, something could have changed with the system itself causing this, but it did just start happening, virtually overnight, after almost a year of never noticing this issue before.
I am also very familiar with this system as I was once a fire fighter for one of the stations covered by this system. A little research on my end has NOT turned up any architecture changes in the system. They are preparing to migrate to Ohio's P25 system much later this year. As of right now, they are "living with the system until that occurs". I interpret this as "not spending any money on this old system pending the upcoming migration".
Is it possible that something has gone south in the scanner, or is this behavior known or otherwise explainable?
Just seems odd to me.....
In any case, thanks for any wisdom in advance.
