Re: Trunk Tracking Problem

Going back to basics ...

When you take it out of trunk scanning, do you get a good solid receive of 
the control channel?  Is the control channel un-locked-out?

Do you have the other voice channels for the tower programmed into the same 
bank?

When scanning in conventional mode, do you hear channels active with voice 
traffic?

Going back into trunking mode, what results do you get in talkgroup search 
mode (i.e. not scan mode)?  Is it displaying IDs?  Are you hearing them?

If you "hold" on a talk group, that hold will drop out if the signal from 
the control channel is weak or drops out temporarily and the unit will go 
back to scan or search.

Check your squelch.  The manual says it's not used in trunking mode, but I 
think the manual is wrong.  AFAIK the squelch is still used on the actual 
reception of the control channel and possibly also of the voice frequencies.

I don't know what you are meaning by "hear one bank ... in the scanning 
mode".  Are you saying that it doesn't scan the other banks or that it does 
scan them but doesn't receive anything?  Does the "ID scan" indication stay 
on for these banks too, or do you get a frequency scan, indicating that 
you're not hearing the control channel?

To summarise ... go to conventional scan mode and make sure that you're 
hearing all the frequencies - particularly the control channels - and that 
scanning will halt reliably on the control channels with a good 
uninterrupted control channel sound.  Once you know you have a good solid 
receive of the various channels, then go back to trunk mode and see what it 
does.

Regards, Dave S

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary" <gb856-/[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:57 PM
Subject: [BC245XLT] Trunk Tracking Problem


> You can only hear one bank while my 245XLT is in the scanning mode.
> Also sometimes you cannot get it to hold on or find a talk group. Does
> anyone know how to fix this problem?
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