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Re: Dual Watch feature
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 3:04 am
by VK3KYY
This is currently one Channel based Dual Watch function
This firmware is for Ham radio use, and Ham radio operators are presume to understand frequencies and VFOs
Re: Dual Watch feature
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 11:57 am
by G4EML
No, you can't monitor a single frequency and scan a zone at the same time.
There is a dual watch function in VFO mode where you can monitor two frequencies, VFOA and VFOB.
Re: Dual Watch feature
Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2022 1:26 pm
by YT5HOK
I think he wants "priority channel" while scanning... But that's mostly commercial thing.
Re: Dual Watch feature
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2022 2:04 pm
by kt4lh
YT5HOK wrote: ↑Tue Apr 12, 2022 1:26 pm
I think he wants "priority channel" while scanning... But that's mostly commercial thing.
No it's not a "commercial thing", I use that frequently to monitor a repeater or simplex while scanning. It's pretty terrible on single receiver radios, but it at least lets you hear priority traffic, even if you sometimes miss the beginning, it interrupts other things, etc.
Re: Dual Watch feature
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:24 pm
by VK3KYY
Because these radios only have one RF chip, I can't see how it can correctly support priority dual watch, without dropouts.
The RF chip is very slow, and every time it switched to listen on the Priority frequency, I think you would have a 100ms gap in the Rx on the non-Priority freq
DMR dropout would be even worse