[TheList] Pager Decoding

Sun Jan 10 19:21:13 AEDT 2021

Yeah could give that a shot. My plan was to move down south but then the lockdowns happened and work got busy, so the place I moved into is a temp setup (my aerial is the old VHF TV aerial that noone has removed yet)

I assume the SDR on a crap aerial is the probable cause of a low decode rate, however when listening to the channel, it appears I'm decoding everything/nearly everything, hence ignoring the decode rate. 

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On 10 January 2021 4:16:58 pm NZDT, Radio Scanner <rs157950 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Interesting you mention such a low decode rate Richard, I noticed my 
>decode rate drop a couple years ago from 99-100% to 35-40%, despite my 
>setup not changing in the past ~8 years. Uniden scanner with disc tap 
>feeding a 2 level slicer on the serial port. Another machine runs a SDR
>
>dongle on the 925 channel into a 2 level slicer from the audio output. 
>This channel's decode rate is anywhere from 20-25% with an average 
>number of messages. You might try using the command line rtl_fm program
>
>instead of SDR# / SDRConsole.
>
>On 10/01/2021 3:47 p.m., DogSecurity - Richard wrote:
>> Hey Mike,
>>
>> I'd say that it's probably your volume levels. I've never done the 
>> discriminator tap, which may have made things harder, but getting the
>
>> computer volume and scanner volume just right is nothing short of a 
>> pain in the ass.
>>
>> Right now, I'm temporarily using an SDR dongle. The volumes are 
>> (SDRsharp keeps crashing on me so I'm using software called SDR 
>> Console) 100% output on the software, 61% on the VAC input. This
>gives 
>> me an average of about a 40% decode rate according to PDW 3.2b01, 
>> however I physically seem to be decoding a lot of messages so I'm 
>> ignoring that decode rate
>>
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>> spelling.
>>
>> On 10 January 2021 2:04:22 pm NZDT, Mike Trump <mtrump at orcon.net.nz> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Guys,
>>     Happy New Year to one and all.
>>     I have a little query regarding pager decoding using the PDW
>software
>>     and I'm not sure if it's a setting that's wrong
>>     or the way I've set this up.
>>     For years I used this program to monitor the Fire Service FLEX
>paging on
>>     157.9500, using a Uniden UBC-9000 scanner
>>     via a discriminator tap I'd installed in it and it worked good as
>gold,
>>     until one day the scanner just stopped
>>     receiving anything at all (it's on the list of things to fix,
>once I get
>>     around to it).
>>     Today I tried the software again, just out of curiosity with a
>handheld
>>     scanner plugged into my laptop microphone
>>     input, I'm pretty sure I have all the audio levels correct and
>the
>>     software is running fine, but it won't decode anything?
>>     I got a few POCSAG messages but that was it, have I messed
>something up
>>     here?
>>     Does anyone else here use a setup like this?
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     Mike Trump.
>>    
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