Scanning the President's speech

[Ron Miller]

Good afternoon fellow scannists.

Well, this morning I tried to listen to ops surrounding the president’s speech at St. Petersburg Community college’s campus in Seminole FL.

 

Pinellas county (where we live and the county in which the city of Seminole is located) has begun a transition from the county's analog, Motorola trunk system to the P25 trunk system. This means that some cities are still on the analog system and some have been moved to the digital system. In fact, all of the city of St. Petersburg has been moved, it was the city in which the PNC’s welcome party was held, at Tropicana field. Other cities, like Seminole Florida have also been moved. I live in Dunedin, in the northern part of the county. St. Pete is at the extreme southern end of the county and it seems like all of the P25 capable repeaters are currently located down there, with none of the system built into north Pinellas county yet. I tell you all that to say that my listening experience was less than exciting. I did hear some traffic, but when you are at the fringe of coverage for a P25 system, there’s no staticky but still copyable signals to work with, you’ve either got the digital audio, or you don’t. it begins to break up, sounding garbley and sometimes like the characters called “binars” which appeared on a “star Trek, The Next Generation” tv series. I did hear traffic concerning preparations for the arrival of the president’s motorcade and some regarding handling and placement of the crowd, including mention of some protesters (non-violent, no problem). It was interesting, as far as it went, but it sure could have been a lot better. I could not copy much during the RNC party at Tropicana field for the same reason.

 

I wonder if anybody on the list lives close enough to the DNC location to have heard anything?

 

Best regards everyone

 

Ron Miller

 

[Sean Paul]

Ron:

This is one of the draw backs to a P-25 system. As you so noted. Either you've got audio or you don't. & another issue is that most of them are multi site systems which a scanner has a hard time locking down & staying on one site. The one we now have here in Chattanooga/ Hamilton County of Tennessee & it has now started expanding state wide as well as in to a few counties in North West Georgia already has 50 or so sites. 7, right here in Hamilton County alone. The one draw back to the PSR-500 I've found is that. The hole multi site scanning function of this scanner really doesn't work all that well when you're dealing with large P-25 systems. Better to just program all the control channels in, leave it in single site & let it lock down on the best signal. One of the things you'll also want to do as you become more used to listening to a P-25 system is to really get in there & play around with the audio settings which are located on the advanced tab of PSREdit. Good setting thresh holds which you may want to look at are located with in that easier to read manual I sent you some time back. If you need it again or if anyone else in the group needs it. Please feel free to ask.

I'm still hunting information on the GRE PSR-900. So far, no luck. I just noticed someone posted it was coming out soon on the PSR-800 yahoo group I joined back last year.

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[Jim Gammon]

Hi Sean, I would be interested in a copy of that manual for the
new PSR scanner. I own a PSR-500 and have never really figured
out the PSR edit software or the scanner, though I am able to
monitor local trunked groups and conventional stuff as well.
Thanks, Jim WA6EKS