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I am working on a project at work where we are transitioning to VHF narrowband (ASTRO Digital) from VHF wideband.

I will be programming several hundred radios (ASTRO Spectras, XTS3000/5000's) in a two (LOL) day rollover period.

We operate on a 26 repeater multicast system with alternating Tx frequencies, and will involve two parallel channels (one for LE, one for general ops).

In other words the mobiles will be programmed:

Gen Ops, two channels: Tx 17x.xxxx Rx 16x.xxxx/16x.xxxx

LE, two channels: Tx 17x.xxxx Rx 16x.xxxx/16x.xxxx

Question: Can the RSSI option be set up with priority? If a mobile is scanning Gen Ops, LE (both digital) and several cooperating agencies (analog), will I be able to ensure that LE personnel do not miss important traffic on the LE freq?

I am also looking for feedback on same-band in-car repeaters (See other post)

Ranger522 wrote:I am working on a project at work where we are transitioning to VHF narrowband (ASTRO Digital) from VHF wideband.

I will be programming several hundred radios (ASTRO Spectras, XTS3000/5000's) in a two (LOL) day rollover period.

We operate on a 26 repeater multicast system with alternating Tx frequencies, and will involve two parallel channels (one for LE, one for general ops).

In other words the mobiles will be programmed:

Gen Ops, two channels: Tx 17x.xxxx Rx 16x.xxxx/16x.xxxx

LE, two channels: Tx 17x.xxxx Rx 16x.xxxx/16x.xxxx

Question: Can the RSSI option be set up with priority? If a mobile is scanning Gen Ops, LE (both digital) and several cooperating agencies (analog), will I be able to ensure that LE personnel do not miss important traffic on the LE freq?

I am also looking for feedback on same-band in-car repeaters (See other post)

I'm not sure - but I think you can use Conventional Voting Scan to do that - I think the only downfall is that you can't scan other channels while that happens.

-Alex

It is my understanding that vote scan stops on the first channel that has acceptable RSSI, and remains there until the signal ends or degrades below the set level. Since all freqs in a given vote scan list should carry the same traffic, there is no provision for a priority channel.