Harvey Harbicht, when pressured, spilled this about Following trunks:
 HH> I've heard it's possible to follow a trunked system if you have
 HH> the freqs set up right in the scanner. I don't quite understand.
 HH> Would somebody give me a real-life example please?
Two solutions, one smart-assed, one not-so-much.
Number one: Buy a TrunkTracker and take a few seconds to program it.
Number two: I have noticed on the trunk (Ericsson) for the nearby city
that if I arrange the channels in descending order (ie. 859.0125,
858.5875, 858.1875, 857.8375, 857.3375, etc), conversations seem to be
trackable if you scan thru and skip every other freq. So, in other
words, if a conversation started on the first frequency listed above,
once that guy's done talking, I hit SCAN on the PRO-43 until I see
858.1875, and that's the reply. When HE's done, I scan again until I see
857.3375, and that's the answer to the reply. This seems to work fairly
often on the system I listen to, although I'm not certain if it only
works at certain times, ie. slow times (I listen only late at night when
EMS is the only service using the trunk (ie. not sewer, streets,
waterworks, animal control, electric system, etc etc etc)).
Jay
derran@revenge.cuug.ab.ca
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