Wilmington Fire Audio Issues on SDR Trunk

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I've pulled audio from 2 recent working fires in the City of Wilmington only to discover that SDR Trunk is only recording the first minute or two of audio. You hear the dispatch and a couple of units go responding, then suddenly nothing for the remainder of the call duration. SDR Trunk only shows 2000 activity entries, so by the time I made this realization the activity data from that time period was long gone. I know they are currently using Tac 5 on the New Castle site for primary ops and Tac 7 for secondary ops. Unfortunately I am unable to pickup the Wilmington site reliably from my receiver location to see if anything is happening over there. Based on the information I have, I have come to 2 conclusions. Either they are switching to the Wilmington site somehow, or the dispatcher is enabling E on the channel once they realize it's going to be work. Can anyone provide any insight or additional information?
 

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Have you compared what you logged to Broadcastify calls N-TAC5 & N-TAC7? Unfortunately I have zero pick up anywhere into New Castle County from where I am (Montco PA) despite being able to marginally pick up several South Jersey counties...
 

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Thank you, I hadn't thought to check there!
So, it seems like the problem is on my end, Calls has much more audio than mine had.
Now to try and figure out the issue...
 

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Thank you, I hadn't thought to check there!
So, it seems like the problem is on my end, Calls has much more audio than mine had.
Now to try and figure out the issue...
How may recoveries are you using? Might be a bandwidth issue. I know i need 2 for Delco
 

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I currently have 6 dongles on that machine, which covers DE New Castle, FIRST Cecil and Salem P25. I also have frequency ranges assigned to each dongle, so not sure what's going on. I have not had a chance to dig into it deeper yet.
 
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