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11-21-25 XTS 2500 "Clicking" Mystery This one is a mystery to me, but my brother has a Motorola XTS 2500 (used) that does a "pulsed clicking" noise on analog channels, and we have no idea on the... 11-21-25, 06:31 am This one is a mystery to me, but my brother has a Motorola XTS 2500 (used) that does a "pulsed clicking" noise on analog channels, and we have no idea on the cause! It happens in vehicle, out of vehicle, different vehicles. Used in or FD. It's only on analog that it does this, P25 Conventional is fine. And I/we would see if anyone would have any ideas/causes/fixes, or if it's a hardware issue, and/or due to age (We believe it's an older gen 2500) It IS also using an aftermarket battery, but... Read more View article »
11-21-25 New Newton County system Question for anyone in the know. Newton county is building sites on the EMS properties on the North end of the county near lake village and Southern end near brooke. I... 11-21-25, 06:25 am Question for anyone in the know. Newton county is building sites on the EMS properties on the North end of the county near lake village and Southern end near brooke. I seen on the wiki 2 new sites are coming for the IPSC, these sites seem weird they seem to be building 4 towers on each of the 2 sites. Possibly gonna be a simulcast system for Newton county. I wonder if the one site they have already will be part of this. Or if it will be 2 separate systems for each tower site. Anyone have... Read more View article »
11-21-25 Adding an LNA to my Discone I live in a valley where VHF-800 is just tough to get for what I want. VHF does better, but 800 suffers more. I have a discone on my roof, and about 35 feet of RG6Q to... 11-21-25, 06:14 am I live in a valley where VHF-800 is just tough to get for what I want. VHF does better, but 800 suffers more. I have a discone on my roof, and about 35 feet of RG6Q to the inside of the house. It goes into an FM notch filter, into an active Stridsberg Multicoupler, and splits to 4 signals. I have a few RTL SDRs plus an Air spy mini. I want to add an LNA at the antenna to see if I can improve my received signal at the scanner/SDRs. My RTL and airspy can send bias tee power. Question... Read more View article »
11-21-25 Install of ScytaleC Plugin for SDRSharp Gooday, I found that there is a ScytaleC plugin for SDRSharp but having trouble getting # to load the plugin at startup. I am using the latest SDRSharp v1.0.0.1921 I... 11-21-25, 05:45 am Gooday, I found that there is a ScytaleC plugin for SDRSharp but having trouble getting # to load the plugin at startup. I am using the latest SDRSharp v1.0.0.1921 I and plugin I believe. Have created a new folder in the # plugin folder and called it ScytaleC.Decoder and copied all the ScytaleC files into that folder. I confirmed in the SDRSharp.config file there is an entry for "core.pluginsDirectory" value="Plugins:" / but when I run SDRSharp I cannot see the plugin. Is there... Read more View article »
11-21-25 What was the last "high-end" analog... Now days there are too many synthesized receivers to count, some good, some bad. I know there were some analog tuners with digital displays, and other radios later that... 11-21-25, 05:18 am Now days there are too many synthesized receivers to count, some good, some bad. I know there were some analog tuners with digital displays, and other radios later that had DSP and adjustable filters. Some radios like the NRD 535 seemed like the end of an era, although I don't know for sure if the tuning was synthesized or if the filters were mechanical or not. But since RadioReference seems to have the largest collection of radio experts anywhere, I thought I'd pose the following... Read more View article »
11-21-25 TGs disappearing from call nodes Afternoon, I have a question regarding TGs on Systems. I am a regular listener to the Node 2307: Hillsborough County (P25) system and have noticed in the last few weeks... 11-21-25, 05:15 am Afternoon, I have a question regarding TGs on Systems. I am a regular listener to the Node 2307: Hillsborough County (P25) system and have noticed in the last few weeks that most of the LAW TGs are no longer being captured by the calls platform...I understand that these feeds are provided by volunteers and can come and go at their will. My question is, why would individual TGs disappear? Is this something that the feed provider is choosing not to provide, or is this something the Calls... Read more View article »

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