One of my Gnuradio projects is a tool that records IQ data covering 375 kHz — which is enough to capture an entire HF ham band (except for 80/75M). A neat trick is to retransmit such a recording to allow local receivers to tune in The Signals From The Past
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Gnuradio
With op25 successfully decoding the control channel, now you just need to set up the trunking configuration. To do this, you’ll probably need to set up three files:
1. trunk.tsv
defines the sites to be monitored.
2. site_name.tsv
provides a table of talkgroup numbers and names for that site.
3.
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The info in this and in part 4 was aided tremendously by several folks on the “op25-dev” mailing list. Without their help, I would not have even known where to start in getting my system running. I hope that what I’m documenting here will be helpful for others going down
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Here’s how to install the OP25 scanning software. If you don’t already have Gnuradio installed on a Linux system, do those two things first.
Any current Linux distribution works. I use Linux Mint which is very similar to Ubuntu.
The easiest way to install Gnuradio is to use a script
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A couple of weeks ago at the Dayton Hamvention I bought a fancy Whistler TRX2 scanner that can receive the new P25 digital trunking system that’s been rolled-out statewide here in Ohio. Unfortunately, after a lot of attempts, I still can’t get it to reliably receive the talkgroups I’m most
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