Weirton Fire Dept. DMR

[firemantom26]

Great job, Paul

 

[mtindor]

154.37 DMR sounds absolutely awful. No matter who is talking, one appears to hear a ton of background noise on every transmission. I suppose it may sound better between two Kenwood DMR radios, but I have never heard anything so awful (DMR never sounds great) in a DMR transmission than the stuff for Weirton Fire.

I can't imagine what it might sound like in the heat of battle, inside a working structure fire, etc.

As a comparison, the school buses on the Lauttamus T3 sound 20x or more better than Weirton Fire DMR. The Kenwood DMR radios themselves must have some sort of processing that takes out the background noise. If they don't, I can't imagine a single fire personnel thinking that the current DMR setup they have is passable / usable.

Even the Weirton PD DMR (Kenwood again) sounds much better than Weirton Fire DMR.

 

[firemantom26]

After almost two years of testing off and on, they still can't make it right..

 

[Bethanylt241]

I have it up on SDR Trunk but it’s not coming through the greatest. I have gotten a little bit of transmission, not clear at all for me.

 

[firemantom26]

Polish Mike tells me it sounds fine on his SDS/Scanner.

 

[mtindor]

Maybe it does, but i doubt it. I don't have the capability of listening with a scanner

 

[firemantom26]

Sure you do @mtindor. A new SDS-200 with DMR and Proscan.

 

[mtindor]

Sure you do @mtindor. A new SDS-200 with DMR and Proscan.

Nah, no Kool-Aid drinking by this guy.