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Trunking ID display

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Hi guys. I've got a UHF Astro Saber II that I've set up to scan the 8 channels from a local 9600 baud (yes I know it's incorrect, STFU) in conventional mode. When I program the system NAC of 1a0 and set unmuting to Normal Squelch (instead of Digital CSQ), the radio ID of the unit that's talking is displayed on the screen. This is exactly what I want it to do - however. For about half a second into the transmission, it pops up with "ID: 0", then reverts to "ID: 522" or whatever it's supposed to say. Any idea what's up with the "ID: 0" part and how to turn it off? It only seems to do this while scanning; if I keep it on one of the voice channels without scan, it displays the Radio ID right away.

Specs of the radio are:
M/N: H04RDH9PW7AN
S/N: 465AXJ****
Host: R07.22.01
DSP: N08.03.02
F/C: 599108-1C5E00-1

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exkalibur wrote:Hi guys. I've got a UHF Astro Saber II that I've set up to scan the 8 channels from a local 9600 baud (yes I know it's incorrect, STFU)

I have no idea how to fix that, but that was funny as hell :baby:
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Well hey, some people make it their life mission to lecture people that "baud" and "bps" aren't the same thing ;) Until Motorola starts calling it 9600bps instead of 9600baud, that's what I'll call it too.
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You monitoring the GO system?
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That's the one.
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Is it fully up and running? I remember trying to get my BC-796D to play nice with it and it wouldn't.

I seem to remember it won't track a 9600 Astro system.
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Hi, this is 2006 calling. :P

It's been up and fully operational for the better part of a year. GO Train Operations (Communter Central) had their analog channel patched in with the talkgroup for the longest time, but as of a few weeks ago (more than a week ago but less than 6 - which are the last times I've taken a GO Train) it has gone silent with analog comms and has been added to the Waterdown site and is carrying trunked/digital traffic now.

The 796 will track 9600 systems, which is what the "96" is all about, however I've not been able to find a proper base/spacing for the system. Unitrunker is reporting a base of 380.000 with spacing of 12.5kHz, but when I enter those values into the 796, it doesn't work. IIRC, someone on radio reference said that the 796 couldn't track systems that had a base frequency below 400MHz so maybe that's why.

Seeing as the GO system uses all "splinter" channels, that is, .0625, .1125 instead of .275, .375 and so on, it would in theory be possible to set a base frequency above 400MHz, like 400.0625 and have a spacing of 6.25, but you'd have to tinker with the settings and there's no guarentee that it would even work. Worth a shot though.
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What I'd really love is to get my hands on some 9600 firmware for my astro saber. Yes, I know about the affiliation thing but I'm not worried about that as I believe there's a very reliable way to get around that which works excellent on other "forced affiliation" systems. But, I'm told I'm going to have one hell of a time finding firmware and a codeplug, there's no way in hell I'm getting a 2500 or 5000 just to listen to busses :)
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exkalibur wrote:The 796 will track 9600 systems, which is what the "96" is all about, however I've not been able to find a proper base/spacing for the system. Unitrunker is reporting a base of 380.000 with spacing of 12.5kHz, but when I enter those values into the 796, it doesn't work. IIRC, someone on radio reference said that the 796 couldn't track systems that had a base frequency below 400MHz so maybe that's why.
You're right. That's what I was thinking of, the base frequency issue.

Anyway, sorry for the thread hijack. Carry on!
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Ha... that shit cracked me up too for some reason.

Mong wrote:
exkalibur wrote:Hi guys. I've got a UHF Astro Saber II that I've set up to scan the 8 channels from a local 9600 baud (yes I know it's incorrect, STFU)

I have no idea how to fix that, but that was funny as hell :baby:
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exkalibur wrote:Well hey, some people make it their life mission to lecture people that "baud" and "bps" aren't the same thing ;) Until Motorola starts calling it 9600bps instead of 9600baud, that's what I'll call it too.
Some people say pounds and inches are the same too, but it doesn't make them correct.
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mr.syntrx wrote:
exkalibur wrote:Well hey, some people make it their life mission to lecture people that "baud" and "bps" aren't the same thing ;) Until Motorola starts calling it 9600bps instead of 9600baud, that's what I'll call it too.
Some people say pounds and inches are the same too, but it doesn't make them correct.
And then there are "foot-pounds" :baby:
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KB9SXK wrote:
mr.syntrx wrote:
exkalibur wrote:Well hey, some people make it their life mission to lecture people that "baud" and "bps" aren't the same thing ;) Until Motorola starts calling it 9600bps instead of 9600baud, that's what I'll call it too.
Some people say pounds and inches are the same too, but it doesn't make them correct.
And then there are "foot-pounds" :baby:
If you're using foot-pounds on your radios, you're doing something wrong! :baby: You should be using inch-pounds!

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