Hi there,
I'm fairly new to radios and I'm enjoying learning the capabilities of radio two-way technology. I've purchased and programmed a Motorola XTS 2500 and I'm enjoying it a lot. However, I've come across an issue with vote scanning. I decided to try out vote scanning to listen to the police. The city I live in has several repeaters that transmit the same thing, just in different locations and some repeaters on the outskirts of the city for the more "rural" areas. I am running a mixed conventional vote scan.
The problem:
When my radio receives a signal, I'm lead to believe that it'll measure the strength of all the signals from the repeaters in the vote scan list and select the one with the greatest signal. However, my radio seems to be selecting the worst signal about 80% of the time. I could be in the middle of the city with 3 decent repeaters hitting my location, and often my radio will select one of the outskirt repeater which gives me an awful sounding reception where I can't understand a word that's being said.
I'm not sure on the best parameters for the conventional vote scan settings, but I currently have the vote delay set to 150ms, just to give all the repeaters enough time to key up.
I'm more than happy to supply more information, and I hope that someone can help me.
I've set up conventional vote scan on a GP339 and Tait radio which work amazingly, so I'm stuck with this one...
Thank you and kind regards,
Dean Williams
I'm fairly new to radios and I'm enjoying learning the capabilities of radio two-way technology. I've purchased and programmed a Motorola XTS 2500 and I'm enjoying it a lot. However, I've come across an issue with vote scanning. I decided to try out vote scanning to listen to the police. The city I live in has several repeaters that transmit the same thing, just in different locations and some repeaters on the outskirts of the city for the more "rural" areas. I am running a mixed conventional vote scan.
The problem:
When my radio receives a signal, I'm lead to believe that it'll measure the strength of all the signals from the repeaters in the vote scan list and select the one with the greatest signal. However, my radio seems to be selecting the worst signal about 80% of the time. I could be in the middle of the city with 3 decent repeaters hitting my location, and often my radio will select one of the outskirt repeater which gives me an awful sounding reception where I can't understand a word that's being said.
I'm not sure on the best parameters for the conventional vote scan settings, but I currently have the vote delay set to 150ms, just to give all the repeaters enough time to key up.
I'm more than happy to supply more information, and I hope that someone can help me.
I've set up conventional vote scan on a GP339 and Tait radio which work amazingly, so I'm stuck with this one...
Thank you and kind regards,
Dean Williams
