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Hey everyone. Our county recently switched to 800 paging with G4's. I have ours working but wanna make sure that i'm 100% doing things correctly. When it comes to the Control Channels...I have entered our primary and alt control channels. Do I still need to do a full spectrum scan or can it run from just the 2 control channels?? Here is the system we are on:

https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?siteId=10238

I have currently the 2 control channels and it full spectrum scan from 851-854. Any advice anyone can give me would be awesome. Thanks in advance for helping out a somewhat newbie.
 
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You should be safe with just the primary and alternate(s), however I think a lot of people recommend to program all channels. Just in case the system changes and some of the voice channels rotate to control channels. So it maybe an overkill, but I would probably put the other 14 in as well.


Edit: I just saw that you are using Unication G4's- didn't pick up what forum this is in, either. I don't think that would change my mind, unless there are drawbacks using all the frequencies with Unications.
 
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Motorola systems are pretty good about being reliable on the primary and alternate control channels.
However i only see 1 alternate. Usually there are 2-4 alternates.
Keep that in mind if the system ever has issues and your pager goes out of range as the system might got to a control channel you dont have programmed.
Harris systems i am told are ones that can use any channel as a control channel.
 
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mrtizzom said:
Hey everyone. Our county recently switched to 800 paging with G4's. I have ours working but wanna make sure that i'm 100% doing things correctly. When it comes to the Control Channels...I have entered our primary and alt control channels. Do I still need to do a full spectrum scan or can it run from just the 2 control channels?? Here is the system we are on:

https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?siteId=10238

I have currently the 2 control channels and it full spectrum scan from 851-854. Any advice anyone can give me would be awesome. Thanks in advance for helping out a somewhat newbie.
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Given what I see of the system and based on the WACN, I recommend one of these two options:

  • enter all of the site frequencies

  • spectrum scan 851-854

Make sure you've entered the correct WACN, SysID, RFSS and Site values - particularly if using Full Spectrum Scan.
 
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