Field Monitoring

Equipment Required

What is a DiscriminatorTap

Frequencies To Monitor

ATCS Channel Pairs

Other Frequencies for other protocols

Genisys

Comments/Questions

Equipment required for field monitoring are; laptop with ATCS installed, scanner or data receiver, antenna, cable connecting from discriminator tap to laptop via Griffin iMic.

-- GregMazzie - 14 May 2007

When mointoring both the BCP and MCP channels at the same time, two receivers are required. I use two ICOM PCR-1000's, but any ATCS compatible scanner will do. You actually have to create a "network" for both freqs. to be heard and decoded. One .ini file should be labeled for BCP and one for MCP. In both of these, the display dispatcher layout should be left unchecked. In the options tab, under data source, you would add these two applications to whichever ports you are using. The main application (or combo .ini) will display the dispatcher's layout and will receive the information from both receivers. Anyone needing assistance with this can contact me off-list and I can provide copies of the .ini files that we provided to me by other ATCS users. Its rather simple once you get it set up.

-- GregMazzie - 14 May 2007

-- BrianSwan - 29 Oct 2006