Minitor 5 nb

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EBuckland
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Minitor 5 nb

Post by EBuckland »

Are all Minitor 5 pagers nb capable, even the very first ones? Is there a serial number range of minitor 5s that are not?
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Re: Minitor 5 nb

Post by Al »

The Min V was designed from the ground up to have switchable NB/WB IF filters, so all Vs are NB capable.
pbansen
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Re: Minitor 5 nb

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We just went through region-wide narrowbanding and it's been a nightmare, pretty much.

Basically, the narrowbanded frequencies will produce lower volume at the receiving station. Our previously stone-reliable pagers are now spotty and inconsistent. Overall communication quality on mountaintop repeaters has decreased significantly - you used to be able to use almost any one of four different repeaters - now you'd better hit the right one and you may need to 'shop around' to find the one repeater that makes you readable at Dispatch - "Can you hear me now?".

I am experimenting with using radios programmed as pagers instead of just using pagers, looking into buying new equipment, anything I can do so that our fire department staff can just hear the calls. It's a HUGE pain in the rear and couldn't come at a much more challenging time financially.

Pete Bansen
Squaw Valley Fire Department
Olympic Valley, California
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Re: Minitor 5 nb

Post by Batwings21 »

pbansen wrote:Basically, the narrowbanded frequencies will produce lower volume at the receiving station.
The only reason for that to happen is if the receiving radio/pager is not programmed for narrowband...
You could have a noticeable drop in coverage, but it would be in the fringe areas of your system, basically you have the same signal you had before, but its harder to make usable audio out of the noise because the signal to noise ratio is less.
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