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Never touched it before in my life, so probably really bad...

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Anyone? Anyone? Beuler?

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Hey y'all, long time no see. I'm looking for some information on decoding MOSCAD. I can hook whatever i need up to a scanner or radio and I have an old computer if needed. I just want to see the stuff coming though so I can pick out my station alerts and use that to control audio in my home. I've go...

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Awesome. Thanks!

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Looking for suggestions on magazines and trade journals I can subscribe to regarding commercial and public safety communications. I'm on Urgent Communications (formerly MRT) already but looking for others. Suggestions?

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I've been doing a lot of explaining to people the concept to lightning protection. Like you said, nothing is going to save the equipment from a direct strike. 120 million volts at 30,000 amps is going to wreck everything in its path. It traveled 10 miles through the air without a problem, there is v...

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I've been outside looking for ground zero but I can't find it. It only hit the phone circuits and it only effected OUR circuits, none of the neighbors. It did not effect line power or cable TV. So I think the strike was on our property, hit the dirt or something, and went into the underground condui...

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Well didn't this just make my damn day. I wish I could bring up a historical radar image from OKX at about 2:30pm today. I was sitting at work watching this on the radar thinking "oh crap". About then is when the slew of text messages about things not working started flowing in from my fir...

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FULL is for using companding and can be used on wideband or narrowband. Companding must be a systemwide deployment. Activating it on one radio will only make things worse.

I've never noticed much of a difference between none and low level other than a slight boost in some audio sometimes.

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No MPL on this radio either. I purchased it on fleaBay and the seller has a return policy. I'm sending it back to him for an exchange.

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You can not add any more than those four which you see there. Unless you are the system administrator and are able to change the entire alerting system to MDC1200, or reduce the number of tones, you're beat.

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Been there done that too. No joy.

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Inverted DPL has no effect on this either.

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This is a totally separate channel. I'm totally baffled by this.

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You could drop the power down to nothing too. But in either case, you've rendered the radio useless as anything but a receiver. So you have a $1,000 scanner limited to one band and only a handful of talkgroups.

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I'm at loss with this one. Regardless of codeplug program, the DPL will always come out of the radio as 023 in the 460-462 range. But in 465+, it works fine. I have this on a service monitor so I'm not losing my mind. I don't get it.

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What he is talking about is, oversimplified, really long mic and speaker wires. You can't just use any old wire for that which is why the ones you've seen are "special". I'm sure for some short hookups, it would work fine.

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akardam wrote:Ah, I see you've stumbled upon Cowtheif's method for enabling FPP on Spectras...

I wonder what ever happened to that wierdo

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Hola. Cómo estás. ¿Que es el problema con el precio más de la radio?

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I've had two CDM's that both had the squelch set stupidly close to being open all the time. Bumping the squelch sliders up only a few points fixed everything.

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Once again, this has nothing to do with alert/reset. This a simple matter of the carrier squelch being set toooooooo tight and not closing.

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tvsjr wrote:Personally, I'm trying to figure out who sold two camps XTS2500i radios when they need ONE CHANNEL. Talk about a waste.

At least I'm not the only one just a little perplexed by that.

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No. No such thing.

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I'll give it a shot. Probably won't get to it until next weekend though. Thanks for the advice guys.

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I'll put a volume pot inline with the speaker before I pay /\/\ money to fix anything. The volume it reduces to is just about right to hear it while driving if the stereo isn't on. Its only too loud if I'm just sitting there or parked. So knowing how lazy I am, it will probably stay in this state fo...

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Just put the normal battery on it and it still doesn't work right. The volume seems jumpy. I think something is wrong with the volume pot.

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Nope. No volume knob on this speaker.

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I do in fact have an impress battery on there right now. I still have the standard one lying around so I'll give it a shot later when I feel like going back out in the blizzard.

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Standard palm mic that it came with. The radio's volume knob has no effect on anything while in the XTVA. The volume knob on the XTVA is the only one that does anything but it it seems the bottom 1/3 of the knob's rotation has no effect on volume.

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Oh I know the background of this system and it is supposed to be narrow. It is also licensed as narrow. In fact, the police chief claims "astro works better on narrowband" (direct quote). I don't know why it would make a difference and based on this experience, I think he might be mistaken...

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I'm using it with an XTS3000 and it doesn't have a minimum volume setting.

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Heh. Ya know, given the history of this system, which I believe you're probably familiar with due to all the problems I keep posting here about, I seriously would not be surprised if they screwed that up too. Unfortunately I don't have a cable for a Quantar to read it so I can only assume they did i...

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Conventional UHF astro channel. It is narrowband (460.2875). I live in a pretty bad spot so the signal that reaches me is weak. If I accidentally program my portable for wideband, it receives GREAT. The audio doesn't get choppy or anything. If I program it correctly for narrowband, the audio gets ch...

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Is it normal for an XTVA with the included power amplified speaker to be REALLY loud even with the volume turned all the way down. It seems like the bottom 50% of the volume control does nothing.

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Does pushing in the center thingie also disconnect the top antenna?

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Yea thats where I got mine! Lets see, $130 or $30.

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Oh well I'll be damned. I just pushed in the the center thingie and look at that. Stupendous. I assume this works properly with an XTVA too.

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Does the NTN8327 RF adapter introduce loss to the radio's existing antenna? I don't see how it could possibly be physically switching from the top antenna to the side terminal so I assume that both the side port and top antenna are "hot" all the time? This seems to me to be a problem. Any ...

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The astrotac comparator is connected to the astrotac receivers by v.24 modems, essentially a serial data link that passes the received audio as data across the the phone lines or microwave or whatever. Clearly, that isn't going to work with RF link radios. So you need to use a voter that can take in...

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The MTS2000 vehicle adapter is called an MTVA. The XTVA is only for the XTS3000/5000.
http://www.batlabs.com/mtsx.html

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Yes, this is the famed system with the receiver held closed with a stick and several animals living in it. So yea, this is all not a surprise :) When I say "in-cabinet repeat" now, I am not refering to the fallback. I mean just normal in-cabinet repeat. They can't use ICFBR because they ha...

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I'll keep that in mind to for when I hear that they can't figure out why it won't work. I do feel bad for the bosses at the PD. They don't know the ins and outs of these things and rely on their vendor to know their stuff and do it right. Unfortunately, this vendor does nothing but screw it up and l...

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RKG wrote:No lawn mower should ever be designed except by a guy who once cut grass for a living.

I think even cutting grass would be a stretch for these people.

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Never ceases to amaze me Dave! They are in the process of putting SAM cards in the ambulance quantars for OTA setup and knockdown but it isn't done. But the PD quantars and all their radios are "Astro Only". I don't know how they plan on sending signalling OTA from the console since you ca...

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You may remember my threads about coping with an improperly designed system during a big storm back in October. The short version, I didn't think the system was designed properly and was destined to have a big failure. That failure happened soon after. http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&...

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I knew something was up when the MDC ID "DEAD" appeared on the console.

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I would obviously prefer Manchester, CT since its a hell of a lot closer than Boston. However, I'm not sure I will even be in the United States at that point so don't count my vote.

The last meet.... hmm, was that when N.E.E.D. executed the raid on my office?

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In my limited experience around here, AGC works fine on astro for the police. For fire on Analog, it is more headache than its worth. I have the gains turns up to 3 or 6 on everyone but the AGC off on analog.

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Your going to need manual transmitter selection to control the situation when/if one of the sites fails. If you have no manual control, it will be trying to site steer to a broken site. Even if you let it do automatic, you should still have the manual control for those bad days.

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The JPS can easily handle your transmitter steering. There are momentary or latching inputs on the back to select what sites should TX. Aux outs from your console can drive these. You could use an tone panel to drive them as well. Lots of options. The only thing you need the SAM to do is remote setu...

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