The Radio trick: juin 2014

lundi 30 juin 2014

EF Johnson 5100 (VHF) w/ Motorola PMAD4094A Antenna

I've been trying to decide on a VHF stubby antenna that I liked for use on my EFJ 5100 portable. I've been using one of the Motorola Wideband antennas on it since I got it, and while that antenna performs well (as I'm sure those who use them will testify), to me is just to cumbersome for the day to day use. I'm used to using a stubby antenna on my 800 portable and with our recent system upgrades on the VHF side I don't need the bigger antenna.

I looked and came finally settled on the Motorola PMAD4094A. It's usually marketed with the TRBO line. It's advertised/listed coverage range is 147-160 MHz which will suit me just fine. The only thing I listen to over 160 is the NOAA weather radio stations which are RX only. I did "kerchunk" a few ham machines on 2 meters and didn't notice any degradation in performance. The antenna itself is a bit "fatter" than it looked in the picture but it doesn't make it any more cumbersome or uncomfortable on the belt. Of course the wideband will stay in my collection for the times it may be needed, especially since I spend a fair amount of time in the NC mountains.

The last thing I will touch on is how well it seats into the antenna connector on the radio itself. The Motorola wideband antenna seems to be the popular choice among users of this series radio I think mainly because of having full coverage of the VHF Hi range & how well the antenna performs from one end to the other. The biggest complaint however is that once the antenna is screwed down and seated into the radios antenna jack the skirt on the antenna isn't quite long enough and leaves the barrel of the antenna exposed, thus allowing debris and such to get in there. The barrel on the PMAD4094 is a bit shorter and this allows the antenna to seat all the way down onto the radio itself. I think the antenna looks great on it. So if you're considering a VHF stubby for your EFJ 51xx line, or another line I wouldn't hesitate to buy this antenna again. I'm attaching 2 pics....... One of an overall shot of the radio and antenna, and a closeup of the antenna and top of the radio. Enjoy and feel free to ask any questions you may have !!!!

*** I forgot to mention that I ordered this antenna from Wiscomm this past Friday at 4pm. I got an email 15 minutes later that it had been shipped & it was in my mailbox this afternoon. Total after shipping was just over $14. I'll definitely do business with them again in the future!! ***

Overall view

Closeup

Mode: T ?

Thanks to all that helped me with an answer to this question !!!

Home Patrol on its way

I live in Indiana, I am told the Home Patrol is really the only game in town.

Last night I finally caught one on Amazon refurbished for a price I would pay.

So its suppose to be on its way! Should be here next week.

I am pretty rural, but most of the listening we are interested in would be in a 20 mile radius.

Will I need an out door antenna? We are in hilly southern Indiana.

If I need an outdoor antenna; what and where to get it?

Thanks

SLCC PD

Hey all, random question:

I hear the UHP units at SLCC come up on the UHP/SL Co TG, .but never on the SLCCPD TGs. Are the two SLCC PD talkgroups (HEX ID 56c and 56e) used still?

Unitrunker?

Anyone running Unitrunker in Brevard?

DTMF Tones

Listening to the Lancaster/Tehachapi feed on railroad radio.net and am hearing DTMF (phone) tones.

What purpose do they serve?

Thank you

Dic

N1XBA

surveillance frequencies

Any one know the surveillance frequencies used by AZ State, PHX PD and Maricopa County? I am sure they run encryption on the RWC or other local trunking systems but they probably have a few simplex channels that they operate on when conducting business away from RWC coverage. Have noticed that AZ state have statewide authorization on the repeater inputs and outputs. Based on that they could conduct surveillances on repeater input channels that are not paired with a local repeater. Could be way off on this.

I have heard PDs conduct surveillances on city wide paging systems. No one would listen to that racket all day, a perfect place to hide. Radios used by the officers had PL on the receive side to minimize receiving pager traffic.

Actually know a PD that uses a commercial trunking system and another one whose narcotic officers use a pig farm channel for surveillance, not kidding.

Some PDs have blown the dust off their old low band radios and actually conduct surveillances on old 30 to 50 MHz radios which they still have licenses for.

Others operate on school bus frequencies, DPW and local maintenance channels at night so locating the channels the PDs use for surveillance can be challenging.

If anyone is aware of frequencies used by PHX PD, Maricopa County or AZ State could you share them with me?

EBAY Hacked?

Is anyone else getting weird suspicious activity page to verify via credit card when they do an ebay search?

Bergen County TRS/Pro-96

This has probably been answered somewhere, and if so, I apologize but didn't find answers in my search. When I program the Bergen County Trunked Radio system (set for "MOT" and 9600 bps) and can see the agency names on the display but can't hear anything. I know law enforcement is encrypted, but I'm not having any luck receiving Fire, EMS, etc. Any help is appreciated.

73, Gregg, N2UUP

VX-820 Series-Scan blinking light "Green"

Does anyone know how to disable the green blinking light when the unit is in either a scan mode or a grp scan mode? I am using a VX-824 VHF unit. Searched the VSOL website and the RSS and could not find an answer. All it indicated was that when the radio was in the scan or group scan mode, the green light will be blinking. (actually driving me insane and wasting my battery).

Thanks in advance!

BCD436HP LED

I've owned this scanner for a bit now and have never seen the LED light up.. What is it used for or how do I set it to turn on

Man what a deal

Vintage Pace Scan 10 4U Police Scanner Smokey and The Bandit Exact Model | eBay

provincial 911 nl

hi guys just wondering if anyone knows what will happen when to the rural fire department frequencies when the new, Newfoundland wide 911 system comes online this year? will they be the same or change?

dimanche 29 juin 2014

Upload attachment function not working

I have no problem posting messages, but when I try to upload an attachment, the upload window times out while waiting for a response from the RR server. I have tried multiple times with two different browsers.

Paper weights?

I recently inherited 2 TrunkTracker IV's, I dont have the exact model numbers as I'm not at home at the moment, but one has a silver face and the other has a gray face. I live in the Austin Texas metro area and have been reading about the GATRRS system, by which all 32 of the areas public safety systems operate encrypted.

My question, is what can I do with these scanners now? They wont received the encrypted transmissions (unless I'm missing something), I have a plethora of ham radios so I don't need them for scanning ham bands, and I don't live close enough to any airports to monitor air traffic.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

New Islamic State created

This ought to stir Obama's and Kerry's collective creative juices. [URL]http://ift.tt/1r2uSik[ /URL]

PA turnpike

I'm planning a trip next weekend and wanted to see if its capable to monitor the PA TPK patrols. I am headed up to Pittsburg from the Breezewood interchange to Evans City Pa.

Thanks

Mike

BCD536HP quick key bug

BCD536HP v1.03.03

Going to try and explain this the best I can so that it can be tested on others. There is a bug with the quick key settings possibly with scanner or Sentinel.

In P25 standard

one department with 4 talkgroups

setting up with 2 sites on different quick keys

Example site 1 QK 98 threshold manual

site 2 QK 99 threshold auto

turn QK 98 off (no checkmark) Site 2 on. When scanning and hold on talkgroup still using 98 manual. You must delete site completely.

Double checked with same results using Sentinel.

Oh Come on! Where's the Icons!

Well decided on ACARSD and it works but one problem is....planespotting.net is gone and the only photo source is airliners.net. How can I set ACARSD to download photos from airliners.net? planespotting.net is where acarsd used to get photos from. I have updated the databases in the menus. It's working with this for output:

NO AIRPLANE ICONS!:confused:

UPDATE:

Best advise for myself (and if anyone else does what I do) is stop panicking and look harder to solve a problem. I did some googling and it turned up a forum elsewhere that said its a plugin that changes the image server and now I have 4 to choose from. It's located in the extracted archive. All 3 need to be copied over to the c:\acard\plugins folder. Then load them in ACARSD menu and change server. It'll work as long as there is a matching image. Here is the real outcome:

The plug in is called "Use different picture database as iconserver V1.12b" Written by KJM acarsd@acarsd.org.

The jetphotos.com database crashes acarsd.

Kenwood TH-D72A problems

I purchased a new TH-D72A and it's a beautiful radio. Full of features, but it was supposed to be all set up for Toronto, Ontario but when my friend tried to use it, all that came out of the repeaters was static. It's a mobile radio, and it is programmable by using the MCP-4A software. I have reset this radio a few times and we still couldn't get it to work. I don't suppose someone has experience with this radio or a Kenwood MCP file that I could upload into the radio ? I am getting my licence at the end of July (if I pass the exam) and I would love to be able to use the radio. Right now I have to get my friend over who is licenced and I am starting to feel that I am starting to get on his nerves. He keeps coming over to try and get it working. Either that or it's my cooking, but I highly doubt that. If anyone has any idea's could you please send them my way ?

Thank you very much for your time

Chris Valliant

436HP 1st Road Trip

My first trip with my new 436 was quite an adventure. No, I haven't bought the GPS yet, but I loaded the radio with a favorite list.

The first thing I noticed is making sure you have the QKs right before getting in the car. If you don't & get the number out of sequence, it makes it difficult because you are seeing counties that won't go away and the ones you do are incorrect on the screen.

I have also noticed it would be optimal to have a car with better road noise insulation since my Nissan Versa is noisy. So, I started looking to see if they made an amplified 3.5 mm earphone, single. I found one, but I don't know if it would work. Since I can no longer hook this into my Kenwood stereo Mp3 input, this seems a better option. I'm sure at my age, old-headbanger, that my hair cells in my ear are almost flat.

Here is what I found: Headphones and Earphones for Personal Listening Systems : Personal Listening System Accessories

Now, for the other issue, the difficulty finding how to turn off/on systems & departments while driving. I had a few swerves in traffic attempting to change this. GPS will likely take care of this.

I'm also considering buying a magnified screen and lens to position in front of the display because it is hard to see, small print.

I love this radio. In a multi-site system, it rocks. I've not figured out how to toggle between sites when they've been assigned a QK.

Onward through the fog.

PRO-93

Hi all-

I have the RadioShack Pro-93 which has severed me well for over 10 years. Unfortunately the LCD screen has stopped working (the backlight still works but the the digital readout is blank). I went to radio shack and was originally told I could order a replacement screen for $50, but then was told only the antenna and battery charger component could be ordered. I have tried resetting but not initatilizing (forgive the spelling).

I also have the RadioShack USB Scanner/PC (04A08/ 20-047) cable. I don't have the CD anymore for this, its been a while but I also downloaded a program (win93 I thin). When I tried connecting the scanner to the computer I always get a com port error and can never transfer the data.

I have a predicament now in that i pretty much know the channels (and know the frequencies) so although its a challenge the scanner is still usable. If I try re-initializing then i'll loose all the data and if that does not fix the LCD screen then the scanner will be useless.

My computer is running Vista operating system. Unfortunately I had to do a recovery on it (all the electronics are failing). When I connect the usb scanner wire to the computer (and the scanner), nothing happens.

Any help is greatly appreciated. This "old" scanner has done me well and I don't want to replace it unless absolutely necessar.

PRO-95 Scanner Cast Audio VERY Low

Hey everyone. I'm setting up a stream using my old RS PRO-95. I'm running it from the headphone jack straight into the microphone input of my laptop. Unfortunately, the audio even when cranked is very low. I've tried adjusting volume on the mic in line and scanner with no luck. Cranking the volume also creates a lot of hiss.

I'm wondering what ground loop isolator people recommend for the PRO-95. I'm also wondering if I need an amplifier or something to raise audio levels. Any suggestions?

Pride Parade today

Hearing CPD on CW 6, CFD on Citywide fire, Joint ops, and EMS command. But what surprised me was the old VHF main freq of 154.13 in use. This is being used between the unified command van 2-7-9, and the fire alarm office. Why is the old VFH frequency being used? It is fun to the old CFD VHF in use again.

Virginia Beach - Scanner files

Does anybody have a .996 (Freescan) file for the Virginia Beach area.?

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks

Easy speaker audio high pass improvement

I improved my audio a little by simply adding a 22 mf capacitor in series with a speaker leg. It reduced some of the lower frequency noise. Info here. Car Audio - Speaker Crossover Chart and Capacitance vs. Frequency Calculator(High-pass)

Newbie scanners? Need help!

Hi!!

I'm new here! I decide to join the forum because I am tired of using my phone's scanner app and want to purchase a real scanner finally. I live in downtown Portland, ME. Cumberland County.

Any help or advice on what kind of scanner I should buy would be great! Don't want to break the bank at first but I keep hearing on here about digital vs analog talk. I feel like I'm swimming in the deep end of the pool with only one arm floaty! :)

My ultimate goal is: to hear Public Safety (but I believe their feed if offline?) I can get Cumberland County/Portland Fire and EMS, just not the PD.

I can't put up any antennas cause I'm in an apartment. Any help or direction on this would be great, since I'm a tard in this subject! Lol

Thanks!

Uniden bc125 question please

Never had a scanner before. We live in a area of Vista, California and am often kept awake with copters overhead and sirens all around us. Bought the scanner mainly to listen to local sheriff and CHP transmissions.

Now I can build a house and even program a DVD player....but this scanner has me so confused. I have read through the instructions and have tried to run multiple search scans but all I am picking up is CB talk. Any ideas on how I can skip to police/sheriff scans only? Thank you for any info you may have

Cumberland co nc p25?

Its looks like cumberland county nc has switched to p25. I have programed it in to my scanner but i;m not hearing anything. I listen to county fire and it looks like there's only one talk group for county fire. Is anyone else listening to cumberland county nc?

New speaker/amp-new problem with CB

I have a 2014 CanAm Spyder with factory radio and cb. I just installed an amp and higher power speakers. The radio is great but now when I key the mike I get feed back sound coming from the speakers.

I tried turning the radio right down to off (its never really off as it also runs the com) but no luck.

This proprietary CB came off of my last Spyder and when first installed I had one helmet that need chokes to cut the same thing. This time chokes do not work on headset so not sure how to isolate the problem. It gets worse when I move toward the speakers but I am surrounded by them so no solution there.

Any help is appreciated

Randy

Tulsa County Oklahoma Live Audio Feeds??

I used to listen to the Tulsa County Oklahoma Live Audio Feeds on Broadcastify provided by Tulsascan member. I know his equipment was struck by lightening the end of May. Does anyone know if this is coming back or is anyone else going to provide the feed?

Why don't all operators use Nato phonetic?

Its confusing with all the different words people use, why not stick to what works and whats quick to identify and write down?

BC125AT new user; search finds nothing at all

I'm new to this so maybe I'm making a basic error somewhere. I bought a Uniden BC125AT. I screwed on the included antenna, and turned it on. I hit Search, and it ran through everything across all 9 banks, and found (stopped at) only 1 place, with some noise and clicking. I live in a pretty crowded part of the country (suburb of Boston) - surely there's a lot of transmissions going on - what am I doing wrong that it doesn't find anything??

Also, when I hit "scan", it says "All channels locked out" - don't know if that's related?

SDRanywhere client-server on Android !

Hi,

Finally a real nice portable solution to enjoy your (RFSpace) SDR:

SDRanywhere

I tried the Android app and it works very smoothly and stable.

Good demodulation, agc and filters all nicely controlled by touch/tap and gestures.

Audio codecs sound good and spectrum/waterfall has adequate detail, combined with very low data rates.

On an Android screen the waterfall is really crisp.

It is kind of basic.

But I like basic tools that work really well.

It is multi platform,the server runs on windows but the client side may be on MacOSX, Windows, Linux and Android. The client does not need port forwarding so you can access your SDR on almost any platform from *anywhere* via the internet as the name says. The low data rate also makes it very stable.

Nice addition: the server is able to control several wideband receivers to tune along as a frontend to the SDR. In this way you can combine your DC-to-daylight receiver with an SDR user interface, and control it remotely with your Android device.

Interesting!

73

Paul

PD0PSB

samedi 28 juin 2014

Tucson earthquake 5.2

Anyone else feel the little tremor here in Tucson around 10 pm? USGS saying it was a 5.2.

Question Regarding Ameco TPA

Can someone give a quick review of this gizmo? I know it isn't much, but does it work? Does it work $80.00 worth? Was thinking about trying it with a DX-400.

EDIT: After reading around the forums, here is more info.

Planning to use it (like I say) with a DX-400 and a YB-400. Maybe play with my F6A a bit. :)

More interested in it as a tuner than as an amplifier. Does this thing still tune when the power is off?

I have a wire, I think it is around 47 feet, sloping from my upper bedroom window down to a shed. I'd probably plug it into that. I also have an ANT-60 and a Yo-Yo Tenna I might want to try it on.

Let's figure this out.

Okay this should seem fairly straight forward. I aim to have a clear understanding across the board the difference between Oklahoma City Site 1 Core Simulcast Layer and Site 2 Wide Area Simulcast Layer. Open discussion on the topic on what evryone thinks it is and to establish exactly what it is. This can be beneficial to new people into the hobby listening in Oklahoma City.

My best guess, based on having two signal radios loaded into UniTrunker and 1 voice radio listening to both (3-RTL 2832U R820T). As I watch and compare both site windows I notice the exact same activity on both maybe 1 or 2 on occasion might differ from the other. The voice radio seems to switch off between both Sites alternating when like the Will Rogers TG appears. (CPU SPIKES!!). Then I turn off one of the signal radios and just monitor one signal radio with the voice radio listening. This works when a talk group is on hold as well on the preview version.

So my ultimate guess (perhaps wrong will find out) is that Wide Area is meant to be exactly what the name implies. Wide area coverage. Redundancy? Link use also? Why does Oklahoma City have two sites doing the same thing?

These are only guesses and questions. What can we ascertain?:cool:

UniTrunker Display Mode Question

I was sitting here looking through the options menu and I saw it before but never really had to set it. The EDACS Display modes shown are hexadecimal (EB 91 E4) decimal (000210) and Fleet. Are these just how Unitrunker displays it or is it a proprietary display it detects? OR Are these modes optional to pick for a more optimal way of displaying talk groups and such? I do not know so I have to ask so I know. Thanks. :cool:

Linux Flavor for EDACS and RTL2832 R820T

I like the Antergos ArchLinux distro and I know dsd+ can run on it. I am also searching for a trunking program that works with 2 or 3 RTL2832 R820T dongle's so I can have fun listening when I boot into Linux. I cannot find this sort of trunking program. Is there a PPA with a program similar to UniTrunker for Linux?

(Thinking ahead...SDRTRunk does not document having a EDACS decoder.)

Up-to-date Freescan file for Henn.Cty for the BCD396XT

I'm planning to buy a Uniden BCD396XT plus a USB cable and use Freescan software to manage it.

I live in St. Louis Park and wonder if anyone would be willing to share a current Freescan file for the Hennepin County area. The newest file I could find by searching the forum was dated back in 2012. I'm thinking things may have changed a bit in the last two years and hope someone might be able help out.

Thanks much,

digirato

Bicyclist plunges 200-300 yards off High-Grade Rd Jefferson County

Bicyclist rescued below High Grade Road in Jefferson County - 7NEWS Denver TheDenverChannel.com

MNN /094

NXDN compatible with Yaesu Fusion

I do not know if this has been asked before or tested but is NXDN FDMA 12.5khz voice compatible with Yaesu Fusion voice? (Yes...I know it is in Analog...ha ha ha).

In reading I think that it might be possible but the only thing would be how the RAN codes in NXDN (1-63) relate to the digital codes that Fusion (1-1??) has.

I am presenting something this month as a start to knowing which digital mode should be pursed. Sadly each has it's own positives and negatives so user beware.

If anyone has tried and had success it would be great to know. Thanks in advance.

Thinking of going Yaesu

My mission, locate receiver under $500--must have am fm nbfm wbfm-, looking for reception down into kHz and up as close to 3000 MHz as possible. After a long amount of research, rooting around ICOM, AOR, GRUNDIG, SONY and countless others, the VR5000 looks to have the most bang for my limited buck. I have read much regarding the front end filter problems, I am willing to risk it. If anyone knows of an item that gives as much as the Yaesu, for so little, let me know, I'm listening. Thank You

Fairfax County Fire Station 42

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue will fully staff Station 42 beginning on July 1 2014. The new units coming on line will be Medic 442 and Tanker 442. Tanker 442 will be new and will not replace Tanker 439 as once thought. Like all FFX County fire stations 42 will be staffed 24/7 with a career crew now numbering 8 (I think) which would include the EMS supervisor. I am happy they found the funds to make this happen.

Metro Drill

An FYI..

An emergency exercise for the new Metro Silver Line is planned for Sunday morning, June 29 at the Spring Hill Station. The drill will involve rescuing passengers from an elevated train. Departments from around the area are expected to participate since this is a good opportunity. Expect a lot of radio traffic for this event.

Airland Transport Freq?

Hello I wanted to know if anybody has heard them recently or not. They used to be on 452.700 with a 167.9 PL a long time ago. I loved hearing them and have not heard them forever. If someone could help me out.

Thank you

scannerbuff network teamspeak server

Is SBN's server at teamspeak still active?

World Cup Computer Security Breached

Whoops! World Cup Security Shares Its Wi-Fi Password With the World

Whoops! World Cup Security Shares Its Wi-Fi Password With the World - Popular Mechanics

Can you spell d-u-m-b? :D

I wanted to post this in the computers' thread too, but...

Issue with Motorola xts5000

Just a quick question for you experts with radio technology.

I work in law enforcement, and our issued radio is the motorola xts5000. Our department never gave us mics for them, so we had to buy our own. I purchased an off brand mic from Amazon, for roughly 35-40 dollars. It does not say motorola anywhere on the mic. Ever since I've bought it, my radio has issues keying up inside of the vehicle. It constantly gives me a bonk. The radio seems to work better outside of the car, but still has some issues getting a good signal.

Are all of these problems because I bought an off brand mic???

X36 Service Types

I did a few searches to see if this was already talked about and sure it has been brought up in the past. But I could not find it.

So when you create a favorites list, you still need to turn "on" the service types so the scanner will listen for them? While this is a very simple process, when I change and do a location based scan instead of a favorites while on the road, I have to turn off the "business" group as an example or I will receive all of the business freqs/systems in that area.

I would have thought that anything on your favorite list would scan no matter what the service type is set to.

This very well could be a misunderstanding that it is on my part.

Thanks in advance,

Bob

I can not find how to add my callsign to my profile

Can you add my callsign to my profile or tell me how to do it so that your software will import it and show a ham radio badge for me ?

Thanks

William Simard

KC2OVX

Buffalo Police Dept.

I have a Uniden BC75XLT and nothing comes through, I can hear the Buffalo Fire Dept. but nothing from Police.....

396xt programming

I recently just bought this scanner, and with some help from others here, i,m just not grasping this. So i,m looking for some place or company in the buffalo area that does programming...i called hirschs, and they want a minium of 85 dollars, and i,ll choose what i want and we will go from there, after spending to get it...that price seems a bit high. I tried you tube videos, but where ever there from dont necessarly apply here, and i downloaded freescan, but i dont know the differences between all these frequencys and which bank to throw them into. thnxs in advance for any help provided.

Citizen's Energy EDACS... OFFLINED

No CC at all on the old EDACS, and I copied a couple of P25 transmissions on one of the licensed freqs, so apparently, the conversion is rolling along on the IDPS System 2 while the other sites are redone to P25.... I Hope they let IDPS system 2 roll on the Citizen's sites as that will make coverage 100% better for it, and will kill any and all simulcast issues for me as I am less than a mile from one of the Citizen's sites. I will keep you all updated as to new TG discoveries, and when the other sites come online as P25.

Air Show Hill Field

Is anyone going to the air show? Also might be a good time to monitor Hills trunck system and others to see what one can find.

Greenville PD

Does anybody know if GPD has gone all Phase II yet I havent been scanning for about a couple of weeks due to some health issues. I made the rebanding hurdle ok and now not picking up anything,I'm using a PSR500.I can pick up155.160 for rescue that is all.I have been following all the changes to PhaseII for the county and am I to assume the GPD,PCSO,and GFD have gone to it already.If so I guess I'll need to save some change for a 436.Somebody please let me know Thanks

PAL 800 System

I have a BCD396XT My question is do I have to enter a new custom select band plan? Due to rebanding and also do I need to update any frequencies. Thanks Tony

Newby with First Scanner

Hello all

First of all I must say that I live in the UK,so I presume it's OK for me to join?

Ok,I have a Bearcat UBC125XLT and a Watson 881 Supergainer Antenna.

I live in a village in the country,but I get a lot of Aircraft on approach into Manchester

And a lot overflying the UK en route to other destinations.

The antenna is not pulling manystations,so today I made a temporary antenna out of a length of TV coax and ran it out of the window.

The difference is amazing,so if I want to make this a more permanent antenna,what cable would be the best?

I can't have a roof mounted antenna but a loft antenna is possible.

Thanks

Alan

NEW Bedford Mass special event this week.

The Charles W. Morgan will be visiting New Bedford through July 6th. I've heard testing on UTac 42 and 8Tac 94. Also the New Bedford citywide interop frequency on 452.4500 DPL 2t43. Should be for interesting listening

What's it like, 25 years later?

I got a Novice license around 1974 and a General license around 1976 (can't remember the exact year). I was reasonably active on CW around 1978-1980, and worked something like 40 states with a 5-watt Heathkit HW-8 and a random length antenna (which was about all I could afford). I never really had very good SSB equipment (a cranky Galaxy V), and the bands seemed so crowded that I really wasn't all that successful with SSB. Eventually, I got busy with my career and family, and the old ham equipment has been sitting in boxes in the garage for 25 years or so.

I never did let my license lapse, though, it is still active.

I think about getting out the old equipment from time to time, but I am wondering....

Thinking about the HF bands....how is ham radio different now than 25 years ago? I know the transceiver technology has progressed a little since the days of my HW-8 and Galaxy V, but what I really mean is....how busy are the HF bands compared to 25 years ago? Fewer hams, less busy? Does anyone do CW any more?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

talkgroup and id's

when a new talk group comes up the target label is just blank is it possible to make it when a new talk group comes up it puts in the id say "TG46608" and when a new user comes up on that talk group it makes the user label "eG46608" if encrypted or "G46608" if not encrypted.

New guy saying hello

Hello to all. My name is Jim and I joined in April of last year so I thought it was about time for me to jump in here to introduce myself.

I'm a casual scanner listener and have been for a few years now. I have a Pro-96 and a Pro-84. I live in the Shelby Co. Tennessee area and listen to Memphis and Shelby Co. Trunked System, Air Traffic Control, and some others.

Been reading since I joined and have learned quite a bit from the experience and knowledge of others on here. Eyes and ears open, mouth shut. :)

Thanks for having me and y'all take care.

PSR-500 questions...

I have this unit updated to latest firmware.

1. In manual its saying FN + SEL opens help menu for almost every page, i never had this working for any page.

2. When press SRCH button it scans different preset ranges like HAM, Aviation, Railroads etc sometimes i get into mode where i have to click up/down arrow to switch to next frequency (like when you press TUNE), but normally its searching automatically and up/down arrow just sets direction.

How do i switch between auto and manual mode for SRCH menu?

3. I got stock antenna and live in apartment where i hardly get any phone signal, not sure if this is problem though as it shows full bar most almost full bar most of the time when i listening to some channel.

Problem is that when listening sometimes speech cuts off in middle of someone speaking for very short period like half second and then resumes.

Also at the end of transmission sort of like half second second before person stops talking and releases button.

Possible idea can it be related to welch knob setting or fact that radio is in SCAN mode?

City of Allentown

Hello all, Just purchased my first trunking scanner (bct15x) and Im having an issue. My conventional groups scan and receive fine. However, the only trunking system I have I am not receiving anything on. I have them up on broadcastify so I know they are talking. I've downloaded the programming info direct from radio ref using free scan. PLEASE HELP.

VOA ends English to Asia, more, due to budget cuts

Congress just doesn't get it. SWBC is the only medium that cannot be controlled by a gatekeeper. :(

Sweeping cuts to VOA, RFE and RFA shortwave services | The SWLing Post

Mex Military Chopper Crosses Into US, Shoots At Border Agents

TUCSON, Ariz. (CBS Las Vegas/AP) — Border Patrol agents in Arizona were

reportedly fired upon by a Mexican military helicopter that traveled across the border.

Report: Mexican Military Chopper Crosses Into US, Shoots At Border Agents « CBS Las Vegas

Field Day 2014

Good luck everybody tomorrow! My club W2GLQ WILL be operating five stations in Nutley Nj so we hope to make some QSO's with some of you wonderful operators! If anybody is local and want to say hi and visit we will be in DaMuro Park in Nutley NJ so stop on by!!

Michael

KD2CUD

Pro96 Re-banding South East Ohio

I have a pro96 and Win96 V01.74 As I understand it I should be able to use my pro account and download from RR the sites and groups I want and my scanner should work with rebinding. Well it's not so I did some research and found where in Win96 you set the 800mhz channels to re-banded. Well that's not working either.

So I'm lost, should it be this hard i use to use this site and would simply select the sites I wanted uploaded them to the scanner and it worked. What am i missing?

Dose any one have a VSCAN file for meigs county Are they on the new marcs system and if so what one.???

Lost and confused

BCD436HP TDMA(dual slot)

will this code scanner decode TDMA phase 2? Will it to decode the correct talkgroup if it falls on and already active slot. What I mean is if there's a talkgroup active on one slot of a specific frequenc, will it recognize them properly decode another talk group activation on that second slot. Better yet will it be code for talk groups simultaneously if the system was completely active. By this I mean if every talk group on the system had traffic at the same time what it properly decode all talk groups.

better question I have a PSR 800 is this worth buying to replace that spoty scanner when it comes to simulcast systems

vendredi 27 juin 2014

Programming Bell Fleetnet 3

I have Uniden BCD996T scanner programed in Bell Fleetnet 3 and nothing locks on. I have updated firmware and I can receive weather network. Can hear Bell Fleetnet 3 from Manitoulin Island on computer so I know it's working. Any thoughts. Thanks

Fire Marshal offering grants for MARCS radios

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTVN) -- The Ohio State Fire Marshal's office has $3 million in grant money to help small and volunteer fire departments get on to Ohio's statewide radio system.

"It's earmarked for MARCS radios and the user fees for MARCS radios," said Fire Marshal Larry Flowers.

MARCS, which stands for Multi-Agency Radio Communications System, is operated by the state and allows users to talk across the state on a network of repeaters. It also makes it easier for different departments to cross-talk at a scene. Each radio costs $20 a month in subscription fees to be on the system. That includes every portable unit as well. Those fees can add up.

"There's a lot of communities that have the MARCS radios but they don't have the means to pay the user fees, so they can use the grant for user fees," he said.

Flowers says the $3 million allocated in Gov. John Kasich's mid-budget review won't meet all the needs, but it will at least help them find out how large the demand for the radios is. Departments will need to apply for the grants through the State Fire Marshal's office.

Fire marshal offering grants for radios | News Radio 610 WTVN

Motorola warranty turn around time

Can someone tell me how long does it take for Motorola to do repair on a pager? I asked motorola and some of them have no idea. Just wondered if anyone else had experience with them.

AMR on 47.460 C146.2

The freq and tone is listed as 'Los Angeles' in the database, however... this afternoon I'm only hearing service calls and units in Santa Clarita.

Motorola MTX 8250

Our volunteer rescue group uses Moto XTS 1500 portable radios on a trunked 800 mHZ P25 system. Is the MTX 8250 a cost effective substitute?

Eight Mile Fire, Phantom Canyon, blows up to 700 acres

Eight Mile Fire, Phantom Canyon, blows up to 700 acres

Several Counties Seeing Smoke From Eight Mile Fire

MNN /094

Wichita County new fire repeater

Sometime recently a "new" fourth repeater has been added to the three existing multicast county fire dispatch repeaters.

151.3925 DPL 265 WQPY828 (WICHITA, COUNTY OF) FCC Callsign Details

This repeater and a several other frequencies were licensed for a couple of years ago but today is the first time I have heard anything on any of them.

I'm not sure if it is really at the licensed location. It is relatively weak on the west side of town.

I don't know if this is permanent or some temporary patch for the 4th of July or something.

Swannanoa North Carolina

I currently live in Swannanoa North Carolina

I want to monitor Swannanoa fire department but I'm not sure what which frequency or talk group to use ?

Which Police Department they use in Swannanoa North Carolina ?

Is this what I have programmed in for 700

2001 sheriff ch1

2002 sheriff ch2

2004 sheriff ch3

----------

Swannanoa FD 4008

Uniden HP1 VHF High Band Dead?

For some reason I lost all sensitivity on my vhf high systems for my HP1. While the upper bands and p25 decoding are normal, could it be possible that 1 band could go defunct. By the way, VHF Hi Aircraft seems to be fine.

There are no new sources of desensitizing since even my weather band channels are static full but somewhat audible.

The kicker is I just got it back from Uniden Repair and they found nothing wrong but apparently only talked about testing with a p25 system.

Called Uniden back but cannot get anyone in repair.

Would there be a firmware fix?

I have 2.5 now.

Thanks listeners!!!!

BCD536HP Programming Help!

I'm not new to programming radios but trunking and scanning is getting the best of me. I have a BCD536HP that is only scanning two favorite lists, one trunk one conventional. I understand that mixed scanning isn't 100% effective but at this point I cannot get the scanner to pickup almost any of the conventional channels.

I've included hpe files.. basically I just want to scan the new Mercer County NJ P25 trunk system and the old VHF conventional. The scanner spends most of its time on the trunk system, every so often the conventional police channel will break thru.

Any help is appreaciated.

Attached Files

	Hopewell Valley.zip (653 Bytes)
	Mercer County.zip (1,001 Bytes)

Not scanner related, but...

My wife and I both have iPhones and she knows that I enjoy monitoring aircraft along with my latest SDR play toy, Virtual Radar.

So she says go to Siri and say "PLANES OVERHEAD". Sure enough, it comes up with a screen showing what planes are pretty much overhead, the airline and the flight number, their altitude and what angle to look up to see it... if you are lucky!

What the phone is actually showing you is this: planes overhead - Wolfram|Alpha

Pretty cool,eh?

Las Vegas BCD436 HP

Im not sure if I am posting this in the correct group or not. I got my Uniden BCD436HP scanner about a month ago. The question I have is about the TAG numbers. What do they mean & are they different for each are ie: Henderson, Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, etc etc? Any help would be awesome

Service Search

Can Someone tell me how to Enable and disable service searches Such as Public safety,Ham Radio ETC,

I spent 45 Minutes Banging my head against the wall with Uniden Tech support who could NOT tell me.

Peace

N2PYS

BCD436HP Powering 436HP via USB cable

Tried searching for this topic, but results came back negative. Apologies if it has already been discussed.

When powering the 436 via a USB cable hooked to a computer, will there be any kind of indicator on the screen that it's being powered by something other than the batteries?

Thanks.

:)

GPSK,,,when???

i received message from Amazon today stating new delivery date for my GPSK is about 30 more days. This after being on waiting list since back in May. UPMAN has recently posted that more would in Uniden stock within a week or so. What is the real scoop on this issue? Thank you.

Black Helicopters

Anyone else see these two (or more - I only saw 2) flying very low - VERY low - SE to NW over Twinsburg sometime arourd 2 or 3 PM I guess. Didn't note the time - just ducked! :)

BCD536HP Security measure

When correcting the "Barecat" spelling issue, I had what I think is a great idea (yes...I still have the occasional one). I dropped down a line and overwrote the nomenclature with my social security number on one line, my drivers license number on the next and my phone number on the next. I figure that the average thief would not have access to Sentinel software, making it difficult for him to erase and easy for the police to identify me as the rightful owner. What do you think.

Bcd436hp provided sma to bnc adapter

I am amazed by the quality adapter provided with this scanner. I would like to purchase a couple more of these exact same items. Does anyone know where I can get them?

I have searched the suppliers on the internet and have yet to find anyone who has them.

I see others which are cheap and not as robust ... I have those and dont use or like them.

Maybe Paul could share the suppler with us.

TIA.

Win500 Software vs Norton

My WIN500 software disappeared from my laptop. I just downloaded the latest version from Starsoft, but Norton insists on deleting it as unsafe and dangerous. Norton does not give me an option to allow it, but will not even let me reach the page to enter my license code.

Any suggestions?

VX-829 MDC1200?

Hi,

I'd like to know if it's possible to encode-decode MDC1200 without the VMDE-200 board? Firmware upgrade?

Also it is possible to decode DTMF without an additional board?

Thanks for the help

Need Help with Alabama State-wide EDACS (Troopers, etc..)

I am going to be in Covington County near Andalusia for a few months. I was hoping someone could please help me with the frequencies, LCN, and some talk groups? I know there are active sites there, I heard them while scanning the 800 mhz band, but I was just doing an upper/lower limit search, so I have no idea what all of the frequencies / LCN for programming into my scanner would be. It is not necessary, but I would be super grateful if someone also had the talk groups and alpha tags for them in the areas of Covington, Conecuh, Butler, Coffee, Crenshaw, Escambia, and Pike Counties. I can not find any data listed on those counties for the AL DPS (Troopers), but I can hear them on 800 mhz by doing a limit search, they just did not talk enough for me to get but 2 frequencies, as i was passing through and it was fairly quiet that time of night.

Thank you in advance for any help at all.

Walter - kg4bvd

Icom 2820 Issue

Hello fellow radio enthusiasts. I just recently purchased a used IC-2820h dual band transceiver from a friend. He bought it brand new several years ago and never had a problem with it until a few months before I bought it, the radio would not transmit. It still receives local frequencies just fine, but will not transmit anything. The antenna he had was a crappy magnet mount that was actually broken about halfway up the whip where the center load coil is at. Would this be the most likely reason why it receives fine but won't transmit? Or would it be something in the mic? The buttons on the microphone work fine.. or is it in the actual radio? I am ordering a new dual band antenna soon, since I dont have one. The radio is just sitting in my house for now. Any insight you guys might ave would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

BCD536HP Sentinrl database omision

Radio Reference database reflects frequencies for Spokane (Washington) City Police. Sentinel database does not show anything for Spokane City Police. Can this be corrected? Thanks.

Johns Creek: what happens when someone is bored

So, while Johns Creek is racing to move ahead with the new Unified Radio System buildout, several sites are slated to be built out. One of those key sites requires a 400 foot tower to be constructed.

This site will not only support the URS equipment and antennas, but is also required for the new Fulton county DTRS as it will be a key site to cover the northern most part of the county for both voice and microwave path.

Naturally no one except people like me would welcome a tower like this. But it's something else to go on a one person rampage and putting up a website full of complete, total guano like this person:

Stop the 400 Foot Tower in Johns Creek

Look mouth breather, it's needed. You want JCPD to be able to have coverage in and around your McMansion when some burglar breaks in? They need their radios to work. Your SUV is on fire and you're entrapped? You want FD and Rural Metro to be able to get that call and have reliable communications on the fireground.

Here's an idea: stick to what you know, which is gossiping on Facebook and Twitter and watching "Welcome to Sweetie Pies" on OWN. Leave the public safety radio engineering to professionals.

:roll:

536 base unit questions

I am using my 536 as a base unit and I have it sitting on a shelf . Unfortunately, as this

Unit does not have any rubber feet, etc., on the bottom it slides all over the place when

I use the various buttons and knobs.

Just wanted to pick brains here as to others are do resolve this problem. Any home

Brewed remedies?

Thanks in advance.

Dan

Using TV cable for scanners?

Forgive me if this has already been discussed. Tapatalk gave me zero search results. Can a person use regular TV coaxial cable to feed multiple scanners? What would the drawbacks be? You see tons of TV coax around and plenty of splitters for far less than communications grade stuff. What I would ideally like to to is split my discone to 6 or 8 scanners. I could use TV coax jumpers to connect the scanners via adapters at the ends. What are your thoughts?

Sent from my LG-MS870 using Tapatalk

BCD436HP Interruption while writing to scanner Box saying " XXX system different on unit" ???

Hey everybody, I get this box popping up when writing to scanner advising a FL name in Sentinel is different from what is stored in scanner. There are three "remedy" option boxes below. - #1 "Copy and replace in scanner" - #2 "Copy with new name" - #3 "Skip". At the bottom is a check box which gives the option to do the above choice for all conflicts. I've gone through and realigned all favorites lists so they're all the same in scanner and software but still get this pop up box. Excuse if this has been dealt with already on this forum, but I cannot find it. Thanks in advance, TT. PS When the box pops up I check the bottom resolve for all then Box #1 Copy and replace in scanner.

San Joaquin Co Fire Comm 1

Is it me or is Comm 1 not working no more. I think I have not hear a dispatch on it in like 3 days.

External Audio Jack BCD536

I have seen several forums on audio issues, but I do not believe this is my issue...I have audio.

When I plug into the external speaker jack in the back, my audio is almost inaudible. I have the jack like halfway in now and I have better volume.

I saw something about mono rather than stero, but I did not think that mattered on the jack, do I need a different audio cable?

This cable I used for a while no issues on my BCD996XT.

If I use headset jack in the front to my Dell PC, it pops, which is definitely not a good deal.

Downtown Toronto Police

Hello all

Just visiting family members here in Toronto. Wondering Is Toronto police force able to be listen to on a BC396T scanner

The Music

Quite an interesting read :)

http://ift.tt/1iCy4it

ottawa radio system police fire city and oc transpo to start july 2015

http://ift.tt/1jVQEwy

ottawa police , fire to switch over to p25 imcms radio system with

a contract with bell to install hardware, software to record all transmissions permanently with

new ng911 recording standards with p25.

Oc transpo 2009 radios are p25 capable and will switch from analog edacs.

Because harris has the software to switch over, so oc transpo keeps the same radios.

I have a copy of ottawa police, radio system upgrade notice,

Signed ottawa police chief bordeleaux

looks like ottawa police service is getting tait radios implemented .. mobile tait tm9455 series. Tp9640 portable series radios

Link to opsb copy posted above.

BCD536HP Windows XP / ProScan

Hello all,

I did some general forums searches so hopefully this has not been covered.

I have my new BCD536HP scanner and I wanted to set it up on Proscan however, my Desktop (windows XP) does not seem to find the serial port software.

I used the disk to do the install of SW, thinking that might be the problem, however when in Serial Port mode it has the Yellow Question Mark.

This is USB to Serial, but as long as I have a driver I should be OK.

The question is, can I get this done on XP? I use the XP units for my scanners and until now have not seen any issues.

Thoughts / suggestions?

Thanks,

Fairfax County PD Encryption

So I have started to hear some FCPD encryption on so of the District Ops channels.

This may be in part to the roll out of the new radios? Something a bit new from my perspective.

Curious if others have started hearing more encryption on other FCPD TGID's? Are there TGID's that tend to be totally encrypted?

Siren App Update

Per Paul's Thread, the last update was 5/21/2014. Paul can you give provide any new updates etc? My WiFi Link for remote access on my BCD536HP is getting very lonely for the Uniden Siren App. Thanks

Fairfax County FD reception

Has something changed on Fairfax County FD dispatch. Checked frequencies etc but I cannot receive them.

Any input appreciated.This is the P25 system.

Picture search

Hello all,

A while ago I saw a series of pictures, in this forum where an NMO 3/8 thick mount and antenna were installed under the wiper plastic (passenger side) on Chevy/GMC truck.

I have looked in the past year postings but nothing.

TIA,

TJ

unmute encrypted P25 audio

Hey guys, I wanted to ask how I can unmute encrypted P25 traffic from my radio. Now before I continue, I am in no way trying to decrypt encrypted traffic whatsoever! I would just like to hear the sound of the traffic, not decrypt, listen in and go to jail. In my county, we only have one agency that encrypts their traffic ( I hope it stays that way!!!) I didnt know they started to encrypt until I finally ordered CPS through /\/\ to start programming more frequencies through my PC instead of FPP...which is a nice feature when your on the move constantly but programming is so much more easier when you have a full size keyboard and a mouse!!!!! anyway, when I programmed the radio for all the frequencies in my county. I noticed that on dispatch of this specific city, I would see the RF signal meter pop up but no audio, so I pressed the monitor button and then the encrypted audio popped up and encryption icon popped up. In a way, I liked hearing the traffic but the only way I can listen is if I pay attention to the RF meter and press the monitor button.

I have looked around the other posts here and other sites, and from what I understand, if I set the squelch to digital CSQ, any digital audio should unmute, including encrypted traffic. I have already tried this on my radio, but still no luck on the radio unmuting to encrypted traffic. The only time I hear the dispatch is if a unit accidentally forget to turn on the encryption...this probably happens maybe twice a day. I'm thinking that I don't hear unmuted encrypted traffic, is that I am probably too far away...since I am listening from another city after all, in the same token, I've heard audio surprisingly good from other cities further away but then there's a possibility that they have a tower set up on top of the mountain.

The radio in question that I am using is a XTS 4000 UHF, with CPS R20

anyway, I would appreciate any advice or suggestions at this point.

KOA-519

So, I was board and looked the license over and saw no reference to any mountain top site on White Tanks. I believe there is one there since when alarm conducts the weekly pager tests they state which transmitter they are using.

ULS License - Public Safety Pool, Conventional License - KOA519 - PHOENIX, CITY OF

SWAT teams claim corp status - open records law immunity

As part of the American Civil Liberties Union’s recent report on police militarization,

the Massachusetts chapter of the organization sent open records requests to

SWAT teams across that state. It received an interesting response.

Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they’re private corporations, immune from open records laws - The Washington Post

Bay state SWATs: If you haven't done anything wrong,

then you've got nothing to hide.

Programming question 436

Is it possible to create a favorites list on the 436 the same way you can on the HP-1? Pulling systems from the database on the fly without having to enable the entire database would be cool. Sorry if this has been asked or answered already

jeudi 26 juin 2014

Pro 96 Not decoding Digital Talkgroups San Diego

Hi all,

A friend of mine brought me his Pro 96 to Troubleshoot. I did a reinitialization and put in some basic talkgroups both digital and analog. His DSP was 1.1, I was not able to get digital talkgroups to decipher so i upgraded the DSP to 1.2. still no digital talkgroups. Upgrade to 1.3, still no digital. Upgrade to 1.4 DSP still nothing

Have programmed all freqs and CC's only for RCS South Zone

Open and Closed modes yielded the same results.

Does anyone have any suggestions how to proceed ?? Before sending it to RS for help

TY Don

Need advice about digital scanners

Hi everyone! I've been out of the scanner hobby for about 10 years, and still own a 30 channel Uniden portable, and a 10 channel portable from RadioShack. I still hear things on the frequencies I've always used.

Now, I was just at Radioshack a couple days ago and was surprised they don't have any scanners there. I asked about it and was told they only sell them online now. Hmmm. I was also told that our area has gone over to digital. That's funny, since all the analog channels are still active. I also googled the frequencies for my area and don't see anything new. So what's with all this digital stuff? Are digital and analog being used side by side or something?

Jag 725M Remote Issue

So!

Iv had a remote mount Jaguar 725M with a systems head mounted in the car for a while. Took it out to update some programming. Have another remote mount inside the house so just took the radio itself from the car, connected it to the setup in the house, programmed the radio and put it back in the car.

Problem

When i turn the radio on now i can hear the speaker make a pop type sound as if the radio just powered up (did this befor too) but the display dont turn on and i cant get the radio to go into program mode at all via the rear remote mount cable. When i take the remote mount and put it directly onto the radio as a front mount the display works. Tried 3 different remote mount cables and 2 system / 1 scan head and nothing when its connected as a remote setup.

What could cause this? Im unable to program the radio for somereason now. Only changes made were a few talk groups no other settings. The remote setup works with my Orion and did work with this radio.. but now it only works as a front mount setup

Also.. Does anyone know of a place i can order a front mount faceplate for the orions? Just need the "mounting bracket" the control head attaches to, for a front mount setup

KHP Troop location Map

If your interested in a Map for the KHP locations / break down for Kansas do this.

On your computer search type in ( KHP Troop location ) after it loads up click on ( Troop Location- Kansas Highway patrol ) this will bring up the map, below the map is diff parts about the map, click on them also.

Cleveland Police Tac channels

I pick up all districts broadcast channels just fine.

I can not pickup the tac channels. Does anyone have a solution to this problem..or are tac channels private for police only..

PS: I do get the fire departments tac channels with 0 problems..

I use a Homepatrol-1 scanner.

Two preamps?

Hello.

I was wondering, and believe it or not, can't find it in a search. What would happen if you daisy chained two preamps? Would the first one ruin the second? Would the two ruin the receiver? Just curious, and all I can find on Google relates to audio preamps.

Person killed by train

Berkeley County WV. Thursday evening. Winchester & Western engineer states the person was run over by at least 6 cars. This happens in this part of WV at an alarming rate.

BCD 436 HP

Here in New Mexico, I was wondering if anyone else has bought the new Uniden BCD 436 HP. I received it today via Ham Radio Outlet from UPS. Its pretty neat and am in the process and learning it,

ATCS looking for host sites

Anyone interested in monitoring the CP Rail line MCP data, please contact me.

I am working on a server but need people close enough to the control points to get reliable real time data.

I have the equipment, just need the locations to set up.

Thanks

Bill

KC2OVX

Chagrin Dispatch Question

Can someone point out to me the departments in the East and West Chagrin system in Cuyahoga County. I know I saw it somewhere but I can’t find. The reason I’m asking is I heard a PD call to Thistledown, I know Thistledown is in N. Randle. Is N.R.P.D part of this system? I know the FD is. Is N.R.P.D still around? I remember a couple years ago that the Cuy. Sheriff were patrolling at night due to a lack of funds.

Pro 96 Not decoding Digital Talkgroups San Diego

Bcd396t- bcd436hp

I own the 396T and it works fine. Thanks to FreeSCAN and RadioReference data base. But I was about to buy BCD436HP scanner. I have been reading throughout the forum to get a handle on the 436. Now I'm gun shy about getting it. Seems complicated. I do like the feature of the zip code entries. A few questions I have. Might sound dumb but..

1. What is the first thing that you do in regard to turning on the scanner ?

2. Sentinal software is it installed from the scanner itself or from a cd ?

3. What data base is used to update and program using this software ?

4. I have read and saw a video on setting the distance on the scanner sounded ok when the distance was 20 or 30 miles, but one had recommended that the distance could be set at 0 miles and set-up with the zip code. I think that's what I understood.

5. I regards to question one do you plug in the usb cable to the scanner and computer for the first time and

then turn the scanner on ? Or turn the scanner on by itself and do an initial set-up as far as date, time, and

zip code ?

The 436HP seems vastly different then the 396T. The more I read about the 436 and what some had posted, especially those that where having difficulty's in using the 436 is making me a little hesitant about taking the plunge.

Band 70cm ATV with 1MHz Bandwidth

future posibility.... DVB-T on 70cm with only 1MHz Bandwidth:

DVB-T with 1MHz on 436MHz MPEG2 - YouTube

MSP Frequencies For Framingham Area- But No Scanner ?

Hello,

Tried to figure this out myself, but find it confusing.

What would be the most likely MSP frequencies to pick up with a radio that has

vhf/uhf capability, but is Not a scanner ?

I guess about the best I could do is to sit on one frequency for a while.

Any chance at all of hearting any MSP conversations, or must I absolutely have a Scanner with Trunking and CC capabilities to do so ?

Live in Sudbury, just North of Framingham.

Thanks for help,

Bob

What is your favorite brand of mobile antenna

Hello I wanted to know you guys favorite brand of mobile antennas and why you like them. I am not going to vote because it is my thread. I like Laird because they have really good antennas with great reception. Tell me your thoughts.

Thank you

east bergen county fire mutual aid net Frequency

Can someone tell me east bergen county fire mutual aid net Frequency

Rutland County State (EMS) Dispatch PL Change

FYI,

Note the database change to the PL for the Rutland County EMS Dispatch Frequency. The PL has been changed due to adjacent state interference.

Why haven't they sourced a new Dongle?

So we all know the app is delayed. Why hasn't Uniden moved on and sourced a new dongle and gotten about the business of solving the problem? It would seem (and I could always be wrong, dead wrong), that they have an awful long time with very little result. Are they stuck in the "we almost have it" loop? Maybe they do, but sometimes you don't and you have to move on.

Also, are us 536HP owners going to see this radio soon replaced? I notice for the last 2+ months the radio "out of stock" on Uniden's website. OK, recall for speaker problems. But come on. we are going on a quarter year+ with low or no stock on their own website. That doesn't sound very healthy to me.

Something is not right with the signs we are seeing here. Maybe it has to do with agreements, contracts, exclusivity agreements, foreign governments etc but when things just don't seem right, there's always a reason. I don't believe for one second that the folks at Uniden responsible for solving these problems just don't care and that's why its taking so long. I think there are other more complicated reasons involved.

Unfortunately the end result is, they are destroying their reputation, hurting their sales both of which will be their downfall. You know, when I go to their web page and see all that monitoring gear I start to think about the grand days of X10 when that crap was splashed all over the place. Uniden, you don't want to go there.

Fix your problems, fix your dongle, release your application, fix your sound quality on your 536HP line. OR get on with replacing it with something that works and we'll get over it. Otherwise prepare to be relegated to obscurity for your blunders. Consumers talk with their wallets. Let none of us ever forget that.

There, that felt good. Not I can go about browsing the internets for other new digital scanners. I wanted to love my 536HP. I did love my 536HP, then I turned my 536HP on and well, I've been falling out of love ever since.

Roveer

BCD536HP Virtual control in ARC536HP PRO full version.

Hello All.

I was Live Chatting to someone at ScannerMaster and they pasted a link to instructions for Windows 7 users so that we can use the virtual control in ARC536HP PRO Full, but I seem to be having trouble with the instructions (neurological constipation on my part). If anyone could paste the link to the instructions Id really appreciate it. I mistakenly closed the window.

Thanks Sheldon.

OCNJ Frequencies...A bit of confusion.

I've started a few OCNJ threads a while back (I don't mean to come off as annoying for keep bring the subject back up) but I was doing some research and have a few questions. I know that:

154.445 - Fire and EMS Dispatch & Response

153.845 - Fire Operations (Listed as Base/Mobile, unsure if that is correct.)

151.115 - OCNJ Beach Batrol

460.350 - OCPD (PD on Atlantic County's Provoice/un-monitorable. Unknown if still in use for anything.)

BUT...

I go into the Atlantic County DB and I see a list of Ocean City Talkgroups with what looks to be, correct info for an advanced scanner to handle Some digital, some analog. My main thing is, the other analog frequencies. Such as additional Fire/Beach Patrol. Are they VHF or 800Mhz Analog?

And on another similar note, I see a listing for Atlantic County P25 System. Any news on that?

Thanks to anyone for any answers/assistance!!! :)

BCDx36HP department/site quick key bug?

I am running 1.02.07 and haven't upgraded so this might actually be fixed (maybe someone can confirm):

I added a conventional frequency via the radio keypad.

When adding it, I created a new conventional system and assigned a system QK of 0 and the radio advised me that QK is already in use (I knew that and it's ok - it's a trunked system - I want this conventional frequency to be enabled when the system is enabled.).

For more completeness:

The FL QK value is 0

The system QK is 0

The sites are in the QK range 0-35

The departments are in the QK range 49-65

I created a department inside that system and assigned it an unused QK (44).

When I start scanning, I find that:

(a) all of the sites and departments instantly got enabled (not what I wanted to have happen)

(b) when I attempt to disable selected sites and departments the radio always tells me I just turned the site/department "ON" (repeating the same input always returns "ON") *EXCEPT*....

(c) the conventional department QK (44) properly toggles with the words "ON" and "OFF"

(d) sometimes the site/department is actually being turned off (even though the radio's response is that I turned it "ON") but I think it sometimes ignores my request to turn "OFF"

Can anyone confirm this was fixed in the later firmware?

If not (or not known), can someone try a test on the new firmware and report your findings?

I'll give it a try on my 536 (current firmware) and see what happens.

programing in 70cm simplex freq

I am programing my Kenwood TK-840 and would like to know what bracket of freq from what to what would be right for simplex only operation. I don't want to interfere with other operations like satellite and or repeaters..

And don't want to make it to over complicated and input more freq then I need to.

I am on "http://ift.tt/1wA88GU; and there is no defined simplex bracket of freq like there is on 2 meters

432.10 to 432.30 / 432.40 to 433.00 in 25 kHz steps? I also see 446.000mhz using 446.000 as the center calling freq what would be the lowest freq to highest freq? some thing like 445.125 to (446.000) to 446.875

Noob repeater question

Okay, so I'm generally pretty technically-minded (97% on my Basics exam), and I've been reading about programming and using repeaters with my HT (since I'm heading into the bush this weekend)... but one thing in particular I'm not sure on: when I hook up to a repeater, can I *only* communicate with someone else who's monitoring/scanning that repeater's frequencies? Or do they (some?) also provide a way to "dial out" on a different frequency?

Be gentle with me, I AM a fast learner, but there's a whole new world of stuff here I'm wrapping my head around :)

DSD+ and SDR#

I am trying to setup the RTL dongles I have two and nothing scrolls on the DSD+ screen. I am not sure I am doing it right. I followed the setup instructions and used VC but nothing is happening. Please help

BC125AT vs BCD536HP

Ok, I know some of you probably were like wtf when comparing these two models. However, here is what my problem is.

I had the 536 in my truck since it came out. After some tweaking it worked great. I am in the process of taking stuff out including my scanner, as I am looking for a new vehicle. I Put the 125 in as a temp scanner and have noticed a significant amount of interference on certain frequencies. I have mainly noticed it on the 33.88, 33.80 and similar frequencies but also on some VHF. I never had any interference, static, on theses frequencies on the 536. I am using the same mobile antenna. I had the 536 power buy cig plug and the 125 is off the batteries but also I have it plugged into a usb charger that plugged into a cig lighter. I have tried adjusting the squelch in the 125 with no effect. Any ideas?

Need Help getting started - B396XT

Hi there,

I must be really stupid.

I have the above scanner which I just bought. It was never used so it came preloaded with the quick keys that came out of the factory.

I followed the Uniden start guide where it said in order switch from one quick key to another you simply do F - .no - XX (where XX is the number of the pre-programmed quick key ou want to go to).

No matter how many times I try this process, I can't switch from the default (Alaska) to ANY other set.

I read the "easier to read manual" that's online too, and it doesn't tell you how to switch from one to another.

I don't have the software yet, and I really don't want to start programming it with software until I figure out this basic step.

Sorry for such a basic question, but I really can't figure this out.

Thanks in advance for putting up with me,

John.

NJU Tac 4 - 470.2375 (186.2)

Earlier today (04:30ish) heard a dispatcher on here, no units. Maybe a simulcast? She was giving job numbers that sounded like Newark PD but I couldn't find her on any Newark PD channels. No other agencies in db, was using pl listed (186.2).

Structure fire @ Mt. Weather - Clarke County FireOps 3 ??

Clarke county patched the Loudoun TAC channel through on "Clarke County FireOps3" - I only have paging, ops1 and ops2 programmed for Clarke County and that's all the db shows. Anyone who can update the Clarke db page w/ the fireops3 channel info? Thanks!

Summerfest Freq's

Does anyone know if Summerfest is still using their 800 system or if they have switched? I am not hearing anything on their 800's, but can hear Milwaukee Co just fine. I was wondering if they switched to something else, or its just not repeated very well. (I live on the Racine/Milwaukee border).

radio usage in Puget Sound

I enjoyed listening to the VTS channel for all the vessel traffic, but lately I have heard almost nothing. Has there been a change in way it's transmitted?

Thank You,

Mystery Talk Groups on KSICS

1250

4398

4402

4408

4676

4688

4689

4690

4691

These are TG's that I got one hit on from an unknown UID. Anyone got more info?

1250 is nearby KHP Troop C Salina TG's

4398 is nearby Ellsworth County TG's

4402 & 4408 are nearby Osborne County TG's

4676 is nearby to ???

4688 to 4691 is nearby to Mitchell County TG's

Thoughts? Opinions?

Hearing phx alarm in Yuma

Hearing alarm talking to br575 on ch 4.

What west side mountain top could I possibly be hearing.?

154.280 vfire21

Columbus PD

I hear them say "Guard Duty" on the scanner , what are they referring to ?

Listening from Canada.

UNID System - SysID: 4A6 - 857.9875 CC

Hearing a control channel on 857.9875. It's showing in Site Trunking mode. Monitoring from Riverside County.

Quote:

FileVersion:7

-TowerInfo

#This section is here for information only. With the exception

#of the Call Sign(s), This data is not Read back into the program at all.

System ID : 4A6

System Name :

WACN : BEE00

Tower Number (Decimal): 1-1

Tower Number (Hex) : T0101

Tower Description :

Control Capabilities : Voice,Registration

Call Sign(s) :

Timestamp : Wed Jun 25 22:34:53 2014

-Tables

#Format: Table ID,Base Freq,Spacing,Input Offset,Assumed/Confirmed,BandWidth,Slots

00,851.00625,0.00625,-45.00000,"Confirmed",0.00625,1

01,762.00625,0.00625,30.00000,"Confirmed",0.00625, 1

02,851.01250,0.01250,-45.00000,"Confirmed",0.01250,2

03,762.00625,0.01250,30.00000,"Confirmed",0.01250, 2

04,935.01250,0.01250,-39.00000,"Confirmed",0.00625,1

-Frequencies

#Format: Channel,Usage,Frequency(/Slot),Input Channel,Input Frequency(/Slot),Input Explicit(1/0),Hit Count

"00-1077","a",857.73750,"00-1077",812.73750,0,0

"00-1117","c",857.98750,"00-1117",812.98750,1,0

BC125AT vs BCD536HP

Need Help getting started - B396XT

NJU Tac 4 - 470.2375 (186.2)

Summerfest Freq's

radio usage in Puget Sound

I enjoyed listening to the VTS channel for all the vessel traffic, but lately I have heard almost nothing. Has there been a change in way it's transmitted?

Thank You,

Noob repeater question

Mystery Talk Groups on KSICS

Hearing phx alarm in Yuma

Hearing alarm talking to br575 on ch 4.

What west side mountain top could I possibly be hearing.?

154.280 vfire21

Columbus PD

I hear them say "Guard Duty" on the scanner , what are they referring to ?

Listening from Canada.

UNID System - SysID: 4A6 - 857.9875 CC

Hearing a control channel on 857.9875. It's showing in Site Trunking mode. Monitoring from Riverside County.

Quote:

programing in 70cm simplex freq

DSD+ and SDR#

Enterprise Alabama Lightning Stikes Radio Tower

Lightning Strikes the Enterpise, Alabama Public Safety Radio Tower. They got the repair bill this month. Click on this link. Enterprise Tower Lightning Strike

Escambia Co Florida P25 System needs Upgrades

Escambia County, Florida new P25 System needs to be upgraded. 3.6 million dollars more is needed.

County Considers $3.6 Million Radio System Upgrade, Including North Escambia Enhancements : NorthEscambia.com

SDR Sharp,Freq Manager Text Color

Is there a way to change the color of the text that shows up vertically when the -Show In Spectrum-

option is enabled...

The white text is tough,for me to see while the FTT display is moving about.Its set as White,But is there an option..To change the text,not the color of the rest of the display via the Gradient button?.

Im enjoying the new releases,they are lighter on my CPU but that text is straining my eyes to make it out..

Thanks in advance!

mercredi 25 juin 2014

Flathead County

Hey People of the Flathead.

I need your help. Trying to figure out what the new PL tones are for the big man 383 simplex repeater, aneas mtn, blacktail, such forth. Also there is a middle fork repeater that uses the bnsf towers and fiber optics from Coram up past Essex. Can we figure out these freq. And Pl tones. Oh and before I forget in the fire radios we have they say 383 central repeater I can't find the input freq or pl. On top of were the tower location is

it would be a great help if could figure this out

thanks

BCD996T No audio thru speaker issue

I recently purchased a very gently used BCD996T ...I have audio from the front port for head phones but no audio out put from either the internal speaker or aux. speaker jack. The previous owner used the scanner to feed RR and at some point may have gone in and silenced the exterior speaker in the program- he is not not sure. Last up dated aprox. a year ago as I understand. I did test it using the weather radio feature and I was receiving a good, strong signal just only able to hear it thru the headphone jack. I did do a re-set as well (2-9-hold) with no luck .... need to know what to do.....

BCD536HP Stuoid question.

Hi All.

Stupid question but howdo I manually put the BCD536HP in Serial Mode via the keypad on the scanner?

Thanks Sheldon.

VX-4600 Scan Issue

I have a new VX-4600 (VHF) with firmware 1.23 loaded from the factory. No matter what settings I run, I cannot get the darn radio to revert to the last busy channel after stopping on a scan. If I hit the P1 button (programmed for scan) while stopped on an active channel, it reverts back to the initial channel, not the last busy. This happens in normal or group scan. I am not using priority scan.

Am I expecting too much? On my Moto CDM1250 and PM400, if I toggle the scan off on an active channel, it STAYS on that channel, which is what I want the VX-4600 to do as well.

Does anyone have any insight into this? I am considering upgrading the firmware but it won't work with the aftermarket USB cable I have. I think I'll need to order the OEM cable(s) - FIF12 and CT104.

Thanks,

Dave