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Can anyone recommend a product to put on a base station that can count the hits on PL's and DPL's? Would like to leave something at a site for a week to make sure a tone isn't used by a co-channel user.

I've used a Zetron model 32 for this in the past. just connect the discriminator audio input. It tracks the number of hits and total time for each Pl/DPL.

We used three CSI Flex decoders last year to do exactly that for over a month at several sites.
It outputs each hit to its serial port and we just ran that into old laptops saving it as a txt file in pretty much any COMM program, then worked over those files in excel to keep just the info we wanted.
Even got fancy and sent the data over T1 RS232 channel cards back to the comm center.
So the computers could stay in one place, and just moved radio/flex decoder/cavity/T card from site to site to do freq and PL surveys.

RFguy wrote:I've used a Zetron model 32 for this in the past. just connect the discriminator audio input. It tracks the number of hits and total time for each Pl/DPL.

Are you sure it was the Zetron Model 32? That's a paging terminal.

PETNRDX wrote:We used three CSI Flex decoders last year to do exactly that for over a month at several sites.
It outputs each hit to its serial port and we just ran that into old laptops saving it as a txt file in pretty much any COMM program, then worked over those files in excel to keep just the info we wanted.
Even got fancy and sent the data over T1 RS232 channel cards back to the comm center.
So the computers could stay in one place, and just moved radio/flex decoder/cavity/T card from site to site to do freq and PL surveys.

Thanks for the info. We used to use CSI repeater panels in the community repeater days. I will look into the Flex Decoder.

RF1 wrote:

RFguy wrote:I've used a Zetron model 32 for this in the past. just connect the discriminator audio input. It tracks the number of hits and total time for each Pl/DPL.

Are you sure it was the Zetron Model 32? That's a paging terminal.

Oops. Model 32, now that's a flashback. it's a model 38 that I was thinking of. Thanks for the catch.

Model 38 sounds "bout right. You would have to go in and enable every PL/DPL "user" to log them all. Kinda painful with a klunky terminal program. I'd go with the CSI flex myself.