I had programmed it using the EZScan software, but I noticed that I was not picking up any DMR communications like I was before. Is there a token in the EZScan software that will turn DMR on and allow me to hear digital and conventional broadcast as well?
If you program DMR into a memory channel (without programming filtering elements like color code, timeslot, talkgroup) you'll hear everything on that frequency--whether trunked or conventional--but you won't hear other modes on that freq. There are two ways to monitor a freq in multiple modes:
1 - Program it in using 'Tune' (Fn-0). This amounts to a single frequency search, and you should get any FM or digital mode that hasn't been excluded in the Search Menu. The downside of this is that I feel like the radio is sluggish in reading the digital mode of not-so-strong signals or really short transmissions.
2 - Program the same frequency in different memory channels--FM, DMR and NXDN, and see which channel yields audio. I feel like this method is more reliable--possibly because the radio doesn't have to check but one digital mode per channel.
Because the TRX doesn't sense or read trunking information, I generally program suspected trunks as conventional frequencies and record them. I then look at the metadata from the recordings to see if there are signs of trunking such as the same talkgroup appearing on more than one frequency or more than one timeslot.
73/Allen (N4JRI)
