If there is one screen in GenWatch3® that tells you almost everything you need to know, it is the Channel View. Most of our customers leave this screen up 24/7. Channel View works on the smallest SmartNet to the largest multi-Zone trunking networks. You can make the channel grid font small or HUGE. You can spread it across 4 monitors so you can see all zones, sites and channels in one glance. You can see busies and radio rejects and ‘dead’ sites and call types and aliases, and the list goes on and on.
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| This is one of the new views showing how it could look on a typical SmartNet system. This shows a 10 channel system. The background image, the size of the channel blocks, the font and the colors are all adjustable by the user. Anything starting with GW$ is an alias that was assigned by GenWatch3. It is a simple task to change these to aliases that are meaningful to you. |
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| This is the Totally
Summarized view of a single site. Each site is represented by
the larger block, and the very small blocks are the
channels. In this view, you do not see radio
or Talkgroup IDs. You simply see the
activity on the channels. Likely in a
SmartNet setting, you would not use this
view much, but as you will see further down
the page, it can be very valuable for
SmartZone installations. |
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| This is a typical Channel
view on a SmartZone system with the
Information Panel turned off. This gives you
the most screen real estate on which to view
your channel activity. This CAN be spanned
across many monitors and thus greatly
increased in size. Remember that the
background images can be set by the user. |
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| While this is not a normal
view that you would have open on your
desktop, this illustrates the point that the
Channel Module screen, when used on a
SmartZone system, does really track the
channel usage on all sites. Here, all sites
are MINIMIZED allowing the user to easily
choose the site(s) to maximize. |
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| This shows that the user can
set the font and the size to anything
desired. |
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| This shows that the size of
the channel boxes can be adjusted to suit
the taste of the user. If a large font is
being used, the box should be larger to
accommodate the font. |
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| An example of a system display using large fonts. |
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| Each call type has its own
color. By default, the colors are set as you
can see in the image to the right. BUT...
the user can easily change the colors to
suit his taste and needs. |
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| We caught an emergency call
and captured the screen so you can see how
that looks. |
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| Watching Radio Rejects is as
simple as viewing the middle panel on the
Channel Module screen. |
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| On the Channel Module screen,
we show the channel and site that are the
source of a call. As an example, looking at
the screen on the right, the source site and
channel for a group call is indicated by the
red box that we have added. You can see that
it is the source by the @ symbol in the
upper right corner of the channel block. The
yellow squares that we have added help you
to see the other channels on other sites
that are involved in the same call. |
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| Busies are shown in several
ways. In the lower left panel, the active
busy call appears red. Also, the header bar
on the site, glows orange, and at the bottom
of the Channel Module screen, you can see
the total busy count in bold red font. |
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| This shows active Group,
Private and Patch calls so you can see the
variety of colors presented for the various
call types. Private call is in blue so you
can easily see that the PVT call is
occurring on Site 19 channel 2 and site 20
channel 3. You'll also notice that the same
radio ID is showing on both sites. This will
update as the PTT volleys back and forth,
but it will still involve the same two
channels on the same two sites. |
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| This is a Zone Summary view.
This is a great way to look at all channels
on all sites and even all, or almost all
Zones! Each 'block' is a site and the small
squares inside each block are the channels.
The channel color shows the type of call
that is happening at that instant. You can
also see that the user can select their own
image as a background to dress up the NOC! |
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| If you right click on a Zone,
you get a box with three tabs. This tab
shows the high level hourly statistics for
that Zone. As you might guess, if you right
click on a Site or a Channel, you get the
same instant information about that item.
Below you can see the other tabs. |
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| This is the Chart Tab |
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| This is the Statistics
Summary tab |
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