Hello G5 programming experts. I am making a spreadsheet as I await my G5. I am going with the knob approach for most of my needs.
As fast as a paging knob goes, I would like one knob to scan two frequencies that are simulcast and patched full time. Much like the /\/\ Minitor does.
I will want the G5 to pass audio only after decoding A-B and reset automatically. I Intend to put about 6 tone pairs on this one knob.
You can't really scan and receive tone pages reliably. While scanning, the delay involved while the radio catches the carrier and stops scanning causes it to miss the first part of the A tone and not decode because it didn't catch the entire tone.
Tried it on my G5 and it was hit or miss, mostly miss. Any "miss" at all in this instance is unacceptable so I had to go with staying on the primary paging channel when not wanting to hear any chatter.
I asked about a paging p25 rebroadcast from an analog system yesterday on the PA forum. I was told the G5 could not do it at this time. The tones will not trigger.
You can do paging over P25 (not while scanning) but it's pretty finicky, and if the dispatch point isn't using the right tone plans, you'll either get nothing, or if two or more departments are using tones too close to each other in frequency, all of them.
I'm still fighting with paging over P25. One thing I've run up against is control points paging over P25 using control stations with AGC enabled; when the tones start, the AGC kicks in and drops the audio level then ramps it back up; this causes the pager to miss the first part of the A tone. But they don't want to disable AGC, because then soft talkers and loud talkers will drive everybody nuts.
