The Radio trick: septembre 2014

mardi 16 septembre 2014

Henderson County ?

Has Henderson transitioned to the VIPER P25 or have they gone back to full time VHF?

I did a little experiment this evening. Was quick to put together. I used a white 11m firestick antenna and added 5 feet 5 inches of wire to the thread of the firestick. At the opposite end of the wire is into 6 feet of 50 ohm Rg-58 double shield coax. I wanted to try to get better reception indoors For Shortwave.

It seemed to receive fine.

I have no test equipment. Can someone with the same parts as I mentioned piece one together like mine and find out where it is resonant at?

Edit: Forgot to mention I have it mounted to a 7 foot 3/4th inch by 1-1/8th inch wood thing.

I can hear the pile up on 20 meter amateur at 14255 khz upper side band. Some kind of contest.

Seems to do ok mounted in the vertical position.

SC DNR Question

Does anyone have a repeater list for the different DNR regions? Or better yet, can point me in the right direction to get Region 4 in the radios without dumping in every 800 repeater in all of the counties covered?

Older Motorola HT ??

OK, I have an older Motorola HT1250 LS+, and was wondering if there is an easy way to redprog it for the new narrowband freqs in use on an LTR system, or does it need a major redo?

Franklin County fire fighter killed

Fire truck overturned in Franklin County WRAL reporting one fire fighter killed.

MotoTrobo Emission Designation

Doing some research and of course most new FCC Licenses have

MOTOTRBO: 7K60FXE (voice), 7K60FXD (data).

7K60FXE for voice operation and not the data side, my question to the groups is.

When using Emissions 7K60FXE is that strictly voice in analog mode or is that also same designation being used for Digital side of Mototrbo as well?

Spokane PD/SO

Not sure if this is the proper place to post this question but here goes. I have a BCD436HP and have only done programming by entering zip code. I just updated the data base. It seems any of the agencies using digital, Spokane PD, SO and WSP, as an example the transmissions generally sound like they are underwater and very "choppy"; miss lots of what is said. What am I missing? Hoping someone else in Spokane has the same scanner and can share their experience and give advise?

Thanks for any info

Chris.

Feed Volume Feedback needed

I need your help as I ran into members complaining they cannot hear it. The volume is at 7. If i make it and higher the feed will obviously be too loud even at the lowest setting. I can hear it very well 10/10.

Manchester Police

TG 64160

Heard talkgroup 64160 (and logged it to confirm) a few times on Ct. State Police Zone A&I. Talking about a parking situation. Wasn't an I-call. New one for me.

Bob

Edit:

I think it is Dept. of Corrections transport vans

And hearing 64176 now and its Ct. Transit

I thought they were only on the 700mhz. system now.

Oh well, have to lock them out

Bob

Antenna set screw thread size

I have a Wilson 5000 that came with only one set screw, supposed to be two. It's the little allen head screw that sets the whip into its base. It looks like a 10-32 size thread but that does not fit correctly. If you hasppen to know the size I can stop by my local hardware and get one tomorrow.

Thanks.

The War On Ebola!

The President just spoke and said he will be sending 3,000 U.S. troops to Africa to help stop the spread of Ebola. The President also said that this is a global security threat!

Obama: US military to lead medical response to Ebola, now posing a global threat | Fox News

Recommended Antennas

Say from 25-1300MHz

Given the cost of these is not huge, what is the best antenna available?

In terms of:

Frequency coverage

Gain

Build quality

Etc

UniTrunker with DSD+ (few issues)

I'm having a few issues (to say the least) with my dual RTL-SDR dongles, Unitrunker and DSD+ setup playing nice...

I've browsed the forums for hours about how to set all this up correctly but I'm missing something and I don't know what...

First, I know that DSD+ decodes the "voice" receiver, not the "signal" but when I set it up as that I get "no sync" in DSD+ so that is issue #1.

Issue #2 is when I set it up the other way around, I get good Sync and it looks like it's decoding something but can't hear any audio from the voice receiver. I tune it to 162.395MHz and I hear the NOAA just fine so set it back to 0 and hear static and then squelch it...

At any rate, any insight is much appreciated. I just found out about SDR not too long ago and basically don't know what I'm doing... I tried SDR Sharp with older version of Unitrunker and still couldn't get it to decode anything although I hear the data on correct frequency (with PPM correction.)

President Visit/ Tampa

Anybody know what TGs are used during the presidential visit to Tampa? Is it just Tampa PD channels or County Wide channels? Thanks

hillsborough county east site not working

not picking up east site on hills edacs system is it down?

tim

Myrtle Beach Fire EMS Units

What is the unit numbering for MB Fire EMS units. Is it just Medic 61 and Medic 62?

Go wireless 106

Is it possible to go wireless for 106 police scanner ?

Loudoun County Public Schools

Any ideas about what happened to the LCPS trunked LTR bus/alert communications system? It was coming in fine until recently. Loudoun Heights 451.9375, 462.1000, and 451.2000 sound to me like Pro Voice control channels. I know they were considering going digital.

Hopkins County NXDN or P25

Does anyone really know what they will be switching to? This has been going on since 2012.. NXDN, P25, NXDN, P25, NXDN ,P25 Seems like no one knows..Is Hopkins Co so top secret? Does anyone know for sure what they will be using when they go to digital?

Pocahontas County Drill 9-17-14

Pocahontas County Homeland Security & Emergency Management along with Pocahontas Memorial Hospital and members of Fire, EMS and law enforcement in Pocahontas County, will be participating in an emergency services educational training exercise on Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 from 10:00AM until mid-afternoon. This exercise will involve a simulated vehicle collision with a hazardous material involved for the purposes of educating emergency responders and staff at Pocahontas Memorial Hospital on the set-up and operation of the hospital’s hazardous material decontamination equipment.

Complete story on link below.

http://ift.tt/1u3dyrA

Glen Ridge Ambulance

I am hearing EMS transmissions on Glen Ridge Police channel 3 on 470.3375 PL 192.8

Hearing the tone outs on that frequency as well for Glen Ridge Ambulance.

What is an FD SL1 unit?

Yesterday I saw a AA county Fire Department SUV labelled "SL1".

What would that unit be and do?

river palms lauphlin soon to open as dottys however spaelled property

anybody know if the old freqs will expire or if new ones will likely pop up?

408.4375, dcs 114

Can anyone identify the user of this frequency? It sounds like law enforcement/security, but I haven't figured out who yet.

It's actually in the DB as an "Operations" channel in Maricopa County when I do a search (via the mobile site search feature), but I don't see it in the mobile site database when I drill down to Arizona > Maricopa County.

Ault 2x fatal, as paged

AULT, Colo. (CBS4) - Two people died Monday evening in Weld County when a pickup truck collided with a semi-truck hauling logs.

Two others were injured and transported to nearby hospitals.

The accident happened shortly after 5 p.m. at Highway 14 and Weld County Road 31 when the white pickup truck tried to cross the intersection but didn’t make it.

A man injured in the crash told bystanders, who rushed to help, that his pregnant wife and daughter were hurt. Authorities said neither survived. A third man was airlifted to Northern Colorado Medical Center. His condition wasn’t released late Monday night. The pregnant woman was apparently driving.

The victims’ names haven’t been released.

PRO:197 Antenna Question

I need a good indoor antenna.. I need it to be for 450-460... RS 800MHz or RH77CA? 450-460 is all I am worried about.

P25 Uniden Vs RS

I never got nothing but Uniden Till last week, And I got a Pro-197, HOLY CRAP.. The P25 sounds 200 times better.. The decoding I get from RS scanners blows any Uniden I ever owned.. Is there any setting that can make the 396xt sound anywhere as good as Pro-197-106.. This is so clear it is insane.. With Uniden it would sound at times wild and digital.. With RS scanner it is 100% clear... WTF is RS doing that Uniden is not?

Monitoring In Southwest Nebraska

I periodically get over to southwest Nebraska from Denver and carry a GRE PSR-500 with me to monitor as I have time. I've got the usual public safety freqs programmed in for NSP conventional, the new P-25 VHF system I guess they've gone to and hear very little when out there. I realize there's little activity in the late evenings but are there some nets I should concentrate on when traveling out there? I only have the rubber duck on the radio since I'm in a company car but would like to see what i can hear... Thanks for any assistance.

I usually travel from Colorado along Hwy 34 to Mc Cook and return to Colorado when I'm out there.

FL Quick Keys 436hp

I'm sure I'm overlooking something simple but here's my problem. I made a new favorites list in Sentinal and assignment a FL Quick Key. I wrote it to the scanner and the Favorites list is there but when I put in the FL QK number and press enter I get the error beep. I checked in the menu on the scanner and the Quick Key is set correctly but it won't work.

Battery life with WS-1080

There have been a couple of questions about battery life with the 1080 so I ran a highly un-scientific test today. I picked a few depts. on the local RCS system for scanning, both analog and digital. I put in a set of 2500maH NiMh fresh off the charger and started scanning at 0826. I heard the first alarm at 1946. A little over 11 hrs. on one set of batts. That will work fine for me. I don't even need an extra set of batts. when going out for the day.

Effingham Radio Repair

Anyone ever had any experience with or know anything about Effingham Radio Repair in Effingham, Illinois? I notice they advertise on Ebay a lot and claim over 20 years experience..

408.4375, dcs 114

VHF 160-175 mobile antenna suggestions

I'm looking in to getting a mobile magmount type antenna for the Federal 160-175mhz band and was wondering what are the best suggestions? I'm not in to the drill mount antennas. Also, more DB gain would be nice such as 2db or 3db at the most maybe something higher?

Variable Capacitor Pfd

Hello: I'm currently accumulating parts for a magnetic loop receiving antenna. I'm going to use 3/4" copper tbg. My feed ring will be 1/5th the size of the 30"diameter main loop. Anyway, I picked up an old metal and ceramic 18 bladed variable capacitor--18 blades on each side (total 36); it's about 3" in length and has a ball-bearing shaft. When the capacitor is fully disengaged ea. blade is spaced 1/8th" inch from the next blade, and I'm wondering how many Pfd it "might" be. I'm not fussy at this point; but I'd like about 385Pfd or better. What's the easiest way to determine its Pfd? I'd like to link a close-up photo of the old fellow, as well as that of an interesting older radio chasis that I bought (for anyone's perusal and identification). Is it possible to post or link a photo on this forum? It would be so much better than a description. I s'pose not. My apologies, I'm quite new to all of this. Thank you!

lundi 15 septembre 2014

Ault 2x fatal, as paged

PRO:197 Antenna Question

I need a good indoor antenna.. I need it to be for 450-460... RS 800MHz or RH77CA? 450-460 is all I am worried about.

P25 Uniden Vs RS

Monitoring In Southwest Nebraska

FL Quick Keys 436hp

Battery life with WS-1080

Effingham Radio Repair

Anyone ever had any experience with or know anything about Effingham Radio Repair in Effingham, Illinois? I notice they advertise on Ebay a lot and claim over 20 years experience..

river palms lauphlin soon to open as dottys however spaelled property

anybody know if the old freqs will expire or if new ones will likely pop up?

28.400 USB Australia to KS

I'm getting NSW Australia right now on the HackRf. Looks like 10 is finally waking up.

targa

anyone know any frequencies for targa newfoundland?

Fire / EMS Tones

Hi,

Can anyone post a list of fire and EMS tones for Dorchester and Caroline Counties in Maryland. I sold a pager on Ebay and I'm trying to program it for the buyer who doesn't have any idea what they are.

Thanks

anybody got the freqs for the KING fire

anybody got the freqs for king fire

tanker 166.675

anymore would be great sound like it going to hwy 50

and they are tlaking about close it

Peoria County Illinois ETSB (P25)

Each day I do a "SEARCH" of the .......... Peoria County Illinois ETSB (P25) system

Each day I would hear a new Talk Group.

Well that was until about a week ago when all went silent on ETSB

is anyone else still hearing conversation on the ETSB system ?

IPM 2014 Ivy, Ontario (Essa Township)

While working onsite, found two TRBO frequencies in use:

461.2375MHz

460.1625MHz

Didn't have a laptop with me with the appropriate decoding hardware to figure out colour codes, timeslots and groups though.

Audio file size reduction

I'm working on a project for someone that involves MP3 audio files (320kbps audio quality) and the only way I have to transfer then is through email. Each file is about 100-200 MB in size and I am wondering if there is a way to compress or somehow make the audio files smaller. I have tried 7-Zip and it does not compress much if any (the only compression I think comes from the text in the folder). Most of the reading I've done always involves reducing the MP3 quality, something which I would rather not do.

Is there a way I can either compress or package these files up and send them without reducing the audio quality?

SNACC help

Having recption/programming trouble with SNACC and my PRO-197

Only CCF West, and CCF East are comming in clearly, otherwise lots of static.

Maybe something has changed since the last time I got up here. I am going to look at my programming, but I need someone here that monitors SNACC Fire alot. I want to Program dispatch TGs and Primary Tactical TGs not the training talk groups. Never sure which is which, I was listening to a apt fire and some drill kept coming up on TAC410. Driving me crazy.

How active is 11175 USB???

How active is 11175 USB as part of the HFGCS? I've had the new Grundig Satellit 750 that I received this morning parked on this frequency all afternoon and have heard nada...

Whats Amateur Radio useful for?/ DIY Radio

Hello ive always been interested in Amateur Radio but, I was just wondering what all do people use ham radios for? I understand talking to people across the world but, what about data transfer?

On a second note i am planning on getting my lisence and as of now i have a Baofeng UV-5R but was wondering if i could build my own radio. I understand electronics pretty well and have tried to look around but havent really found any plans/kits for a radio.

Thank you in advance for any and all info.

BCD396XT Refurb

I know you can pay to send in the scanner for repair. Can you also pay to have it recased and refurbished. My scanner works fine, but 3-5 years later (I forgot how long I've owned this one) its looking a little rough.

Phishers pose as Cloudhashing to steal your Bitcoins

"Bitcoins and Bitcoin mining are a very captivating subject for anyone interested in the popular digital currency.

There are always new developments and a touch of mystery (last week we heard rumours that someone was threatening to expose Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto).

A few days ago, a suspicious email was forwarded to me that appeared to be sent from Cloudhashing, one of the largest Bitcoin mining companies." -- MalwareBytes.org

Phishers pose as Cloudhashing to steal your Bitcoins -- MalwareBytes.org

Motorola Battery Date Code Question

Ok!

I know pretty much how to tell what year and week Motorola batteries are made. Now, today, I was looking at a spare

I received with a radio I bought and the 3 digit date code was 032. My question is this: is the 0 meant as 2010 or 2000?

When did Motorola switch to a 4 digit code?

Manny

Astro Saber only works out of housing

I just bought an Astro Saber II that was reported to have no internal audio. Powered it on, verified that it passed POST, and yeah, no audio. Being one to always check first if everything is plugged in, I pulled the chassis and lo and behold, the speaker/mic flex was loose. Plugged it in snug, tested it with a Jedi battery held to the pins on the back of the chassis (it really IS just an XTS3000 in a different case!), everyone is happy. I also replaced the display board with one from another Astro Saber, as the one it came with was losing pixels.

Put the chassis back in its housing, snug the nuts, pop a Saber battery on, and...nothing. Try a different battery (different brand): nothing. Pull the chassis again, test it with Jedi battery: works perfectly. Plugged the old display board back in, tested with Jedi battery: works perfectly.

Now I'm stumped. When I opened the radio the first time, I didn't do anything to the housing. Didn't spray any cleaner in it, poke at it, nothing. Just set it down on my workbench. Is it possible that seeing voltage on the XTS battery pins caused the controller to think it's in an XTS housing and ignore the Saber housing flex circuit? I don't see why that would be, but I find it equally unlikely that the Saber housing flex gave up the ghost the moment I de-mated it from the chassis, with no visible damage, corrosion, or any sign of dust PR moisture intrusion.

What gives?

Mastr III problems

I have a Mastr III and the RX Synthesizer has a fault light flashing. Went through the service manual and found I needed to adjust the VCO to get 2-7VDC on pin A23. However when I do so there is no change in the voltage no matter how much I change the pot for the VCO. I did try this card in another chassis and the voltage will adjust to the proper level however once I have done this and put it back in the other one the voltage still has not changed. It looks like something further up the chain is the problem. Has anyone had a similar issue or problem.

XTS 3000 / Astro Saber

Hello All,

I have been utilizing Astro Sabers for a long time now. I have the CPS R5.03 for the Astros and XTS 3000. When It comes to the XTS 3000 I dont know very much. My question is if I try to program the XTS with the R5.03 CPS and it was previsouly programed by a higher version of CPS will it work? I am looking into moving on to the XTS 3000.

Thanks for the help!

Panynj tgrp 00-022

Hi,

I don't see TGRP 00-022 listed in the database. Anyone know what it is? It appears in the WTC site.

Tnx,

Mike

Pro-2096 and GCRCN or MARCS IP

Anyone in the Cleveland area have a Pro-2096 and receive MARCS IP, GCRCN, or Parma?

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I realize it won't do the MARCS IP Cuyahoga County 700 frequencies. But it should work with Geauga and Lake I would think.

FM radio fade at traffic lights

I think everyone has got to have experienced this. I'm sitting at a red light, and the FM radio station I'm listening to sometimes fades and becomes static-y. I inch up a bit, and it comes back full. Then I inch up again, and it starts to fade.

Yet driving down the highway, it sounds solid.

Why does this happen? Is the antenna somehow out of phase when you're in a certain fixed position? Or am I feeling the full effect of reflected signals when I'm stopped?

R20 scan edge searches?

Is there a way to link scan edge search banks with the R20 to search more than one bank/range at a time?

AM radio revitalization study

Results of study to revive AM radio to be released soon - Hartford Hobby Radio | Examiner.com

New Richmond Metro System (??)

Came across this:

WQUM815 (RICHMOND CITY OF) FCC Callsign Details

Complete with Phase II emission designator (9K80D7W). Plugged those frequencies in my scanner but they're all silent for now. Perhaps this is the beginning of Richmond's upgrade?

WX NOAA

In my Pro 106 when I use " WX " to go to SAME to activate # 1 SAME code, I can NOT get to # 1, I can only go as high as # 2, Also I notice that the WX # next to the WX is doing a VERY FAST search & wont stop, also the frequency # , the last 4 digits is doing the same thing. What do I do to correct this ?

Claremore LTR

I've been listening to Claremore PD and FD for some time now, than all of a sudden I am unable to pick up anything. I haven't changed anything on my scanner so I'm not sure what is going on. Is anyone else listening to Claremore and having the same problem.

I looked in the database to see if there have been any changed made, and there hasn't.

Thanks for the help.

Charlotte 900MHz Digital Ham?

I am not currently active on 900MHz other than monitoring with a scanner. I notice the 927.0125MHz KA4YMZ repeater seems to be digital now. What mode is it?

live feed for new Britain

would some one do a live feed for new Britain I have 2 scanners I need to sale that will. work for new Britain fire and police are in the clear pm me thank you

Power supply needed for programming a mobile radio!

Seems like a really dumb question, but I need to ask it anyways... I'm looking to get my first dual-band mobile unit later this year and install it in my truck. With my Baofeng, to program local frequencies I just hooked up the radio to my computer, ran CHIRP, and was done. When I get my mobile unit, do I have to pick up a power supply to program it from my computer that *one time*, and then install it? I don't have a laptop to use to program the new radio after it's installed...

VIPER site CC channel question

Any suggestions on a control channel for this VIPER site, none are shown in the RR database.

3 (3) 039 (27) Lumberton UNCTV Robeson

851.61250 851.82500 852.12500 852.22500 852.41250 853.18750 853.37500 853.91250

SNACC changes?

It may just be that I can't run this scanner of mine, but for the past day or so i could not hear anything on SNACC. Just a while ago, i got a few hits with talkgroups with hundred series. ie. 201-9, 500-0, 700-0, 401-1, 700-1, 500-8, 401-2, 500-1

Bao feng uv5r+

Hey I'm pretty new to this radio / scanner hobby , but for the more part I like it . I have a question I just purchased a baofeng uv5r+ & I want to know if I can transmit to local precincts & if I can listen into air traffic control on it ?

General Question Regarding GMRS

I was wondering if all these radios, that advertise that they have (for example)

a "48 mile range" actually achieve it?

What would be the very best (realistic) range that one could achieve (in a town)

and ....with what specific radio.... Brand and Name ......that does not require any official license.

Thanks.

WS-1080/PSR-800 scan list

Please help. I have manually programed my new 1080, the programmed it using EZ scan, but with same problem

I have enabled scanlists 1, 2, and 3. The check boxes are checked, both in the scanner and on the software. List 1 is LAPD, list 2 is LASO, and list 3 is LA Cities.

Checked software and scanner, and all the channels (conventional) are listed in the appropriate lists.

But whenever I press Scan, only Scan list 1 loads up, and none of the other lists or channels on them are scanned. If I just check 2 or 3 or 2 and 3, If I only check 1, 1 loads fine, if I check 1, 2, and 3, only 1 loads.

Thought in might be a "default thing" but when set default to list 2 or 3, same thing, only list 1 loads.

Am I missing something basic here.

Please help.

Steve AA6IO

dimanche 14 septembre 2014

Dickson County TDHS D7 NXDN

Well the City of White House's TRS lic has been modded to show NXDN Emissions Codes. And City of White House conventional also modded for NXDN. Anyone can confirm NXDN now in use and I will update the DB to reflect this.

Are some Boulder police channels encrypted?

I added a variety of Boulder police channels to my new Yaesu FT-1900R, but a notice a few of them are completely drowned out by an apparent digital signal that sounds like a buzz saw. That includes Black, Purple, Violet, and Emergency Squad. Is this really the case, or is there something else going on?

Macy's at Columbia Mall

This afternoon I hear what sounded like a working incident at Columbia Mall. The HCPD were establishing a perimeter and no one was allowed to enter Macy's but it didn't sound like the entire mall was locked down.

One comm directed an officer with a rifle to go to the walkway outside between the garage and the store entrance.

I have yet to see anything in the news media. Could this have been another active shooter training drill?

SVRS systems, is LOJAK the only one?

I see where DPS is trying to set-up a Stolen Vehicle Recovery System and I wonder if LOJAK is the only one doing that or are there others.

Feed Provider HELP!

For some reason my feed keeps saying its offline. The Scannercast program says its still streaming. My internet connection is still working. I just keep losing the feed even though everything else says ok. Sometimes if I press stop broadcast, then start broadcast it will say online for a short while.

This down feed is going to get me removed. I don't know what to do.

Hudson County Agencies Listing - Suggestions

Hoboken EMS is dispatched on whichever police frequency is being used as "emergency dispatch" - Hoboken alternates between F1 and F2. I've never heard any activity on the 471.525 frequency.

Guttenburg Fire frequency is not in use as Guttenburg is covered by North Hudson Regional Fire & Rescue. Union City is also served by NHRFR.

Bergen County Agencies Listing - Errata (suggestions)

Demarest and Ridgefield listings should include the following header:

Police now dispatched on county P25 Trunk System. FIRE/EMS dispatched by county on their current VHF frequency.

"Northwest Bergen Central Dispatch" header(s) should be removed. Instead, listings for Glen Rock and Ridgewood should be include the following header:

POLICE/FIRE/EMS dispatched by Northwest Bergen Central Dispatch on below frequencies.

For municipalities of New Milford, Oradell, and River Edge the following header should be included:

FIRE/EMS dispatched by Northwest Bergen Central Dispatch on below frequencies.

"Central Communications" header should be removed. Instead, listings for Montvale, Park Ridge, and Woodcliff Lake should be added (including DPW/Local Government frequencies - similar to Glen Rock and Ridgewood listings) with the following header:

POLICE/FIRE/EMS dispatched by Northwest Bergen Central Dispatch on below frequencies.

Morgan County

Something new to listen to in Morgan and Berkeley counties -

West Virginia Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

ULS License - Public Safety Pool, Conventional License - WQFI615 - MORGAN, COUNTY OF

Loud and clear from Martinsburg on 154.0025 NFM.

Bergen County Public Safety Trunked System

The Radio Reference Database lists two (2) transmitter sites: Alpine and Mahwah. However, aren't there six (6) transmitters sites now: Alpine, Carlstadt, Fort Lee, Hackensack, Mahwah, and Paramus?

Also, the RR listing states that "all law enforcement talk groups are encrypted." Actually, all COUNTY law enforcement talk groups are encrypted, the local agency law enforcement talk groups currently are not.

Portland Police dispatch

I usually listen to Clackamas County Law 1 (the main channel for urban area dispatch), along with fire, ambulance, and OSP for the same area. These are all coming in fine on my PSR 800. However, when I went into Portland the other day, I noticed I am only picking up the tac (chat) channels, and not the dispatch for PPB. My scanner has had all the updates from RR, but I'm not getting anything for central, east, or north dispatch at all. Have they gone encrypted? Or have they moved to another TG?

When I bought my PSR 800 about a year ago for nearly $600, I was hoping I had the latest and greatest. I know there is no scanner that will unscramble encryption. But as a side note, I wondered if anyone has any thoughts on the PSR 800 in general with regard to the fact that the RR updates will no longer be available after December 2014, since GRE is out of business. With the decline in Radio Shack business overall, I'm a little concerned as to how long Whistler will stay in the scanner business, if Radio Shack were to stop carrying their new products. Whistler is supposed to have a great new scanner (better than the PSR 800) on the market sometime by the end of the year, but I'm not sure if I should go with that, or try a Uniden instead. I want to be able to keep up to date with the best scanner, and even though I LOVE my PSR 800, there is definitely a concern if it will no longer be able to update with RR after this year. Would love to hear any feedback or suggestions.

460.1875 151.4 pl --> dps?

For 5 years I have had 460.1875 programmed in my everyday scan list. This freq is listed as DPS “Ch 7 Phoenix Metro North Patrol” in the Southwest Frequency Directory. Until this last week, I have never heard anything on this freq. Last week I heard was sounded like radio techs talking about antennas and SWR on 460.1875 with a PL of 151.4 (a common DPS PL tone). I cannot verify what I heard was DPS. It is a repeater, and I heard some repeater keyups today on the freq too.

Has anyone else heard this frequency? Anyone have any information on possible DPS frequency changes for the Phoenix Metro area in the near future?

Scanning the forest fire near Estacada

Anyone have any suggested frequencies for scanning the 36 Pit Fire near Lazy Bend Campground off Hwy 224? It's grown to 1,000 acres. Might be interesting to hear the radio traffic from the fire fighters on the ground and air. They have a helicopter doing water drops as well.

Does anyone know which frequencies they'd be using for the helicopter and the ground crews? I suspect there are multiple agencies involved. Media is also stationed nearby with their vans that have the satellite dishes on top, so they can provide live reporters on the scene during newscasts. I've never been able to find the frequencies for their conversations with producers back at the station right before they go on air. I'd like to head up there today or tomorrow to see what I can pick up, for any of the above. Suggestions are welcome if anyone has ideas. Thanks in advance for your help. Happy scanning to all.

radio noise in truck stereo

I have a pm400 vhf that was in my 01 explorer and it was used with no probs for about 4 yrs. I put the radio in my 01 Silverado and when I key the mic, I get a loud popping humming sound through my sound system that I never had in the explorer. the antenna is mounted on the roof via nmo hole mount, radio is mounted on my headliner console, grounded about 12" from it, power cable is spliced into my 4ga amp wire (maybe the prob?) that comes straight from the battery. what do yall think if I run my power cable to the radio directly from the battery or another good 12v power source? thanks for any help in advance!!

Tail End Charlie - New Chirp Woes

I have been using Chirp a LONG time and love it - let me get the lovefest out of the way. I had been using 2 different model Baofeng and decided to update my Chirp software to the latest daily build and add/update repeater changes on my 888s and my F8HP. Not many changes were made (Only 3 channels!) No error messages occurred whatsoever- BUT NOW -

I only open the repeater when I UNKEY on any channel, so it sounds like I am one of those clods that sits on a repeater and deadkeys every few minutes.

This happened with BOTH types of radios, obviously at the same time.

No new/different hardware/cables were used that have not been used countless times before.

As I said, I have no problem opening the repeater, but only for a couple of seconds when I actually unkey. Simplex operation is perfect and when I tune my scanner to the tx frequency, I hear myself.

Beyond odd.

start building the Ark

Odile is going to be a hell of a storm for us/ You think we got a lot of rain from Norbert which was only a tropic storm, wait till Odile comes which is a Cat 4 at this time. This time though there will be very little place for the rain to go beings everything is soggy!!

antenna feedline impedance

The attached antenna plans call for a feedline length of at least 1/2 wavelength before the line bends toward the radio. What if i didnt have a 1/2 wavelength would it be negligent or very bad for the antenna?..also the attachment seems sloppy in the pic shouldnt the leads be kept as close as possible?

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From Analog to Digital

If my city the FD is now analog, but are to change to Digital but not sure when that change over to digital will happen. My question is this, Being the city FD is analog now, can I also program the FD to Digital TG program also & activate the program to be ready ? Will that work ?

Short mobile scanner antennas

I’m looking for a great 108-900mhz monitor antenna with a NMO mount. I have used the PCTEL (MAXRAD) BMAXSCAN1000 for many years and I this is one of my favorite antennas. I recently tried the Larsen 150/450/800 and it seems to do a little better on VHF and UHF. I do not like the design of the Larsen as much as the PCTEL antenna. The Larsen antenna seems like cheap plastic and looks a little odd with the load being up higher.

What is everyone’s take on the best short (around 16”) mobile scanner antenna? Have I found the best antennas, or is there something else that is worth a look?

Pro-197: Squelch has to be at max to pick up P25?

In order to recive anything at all from the P25 Conventional system I am trying to monitor I got to have the squelch turned to the absolute max which makes me not able to monitor my analog freqs.. I have the stock antenna but I also have a ST2 a buddy gave me a while back I am not able to mount one but I set it out on my porch and ran a 25 foot coax to the scanner and still same results.. Any ideas?

P25 range is 453-460Mhz

Some of the scanner settings

SQ Wait 1: 5

SQ Wait 2: 10

DG Int Prime: 30

Noise Thresh: 45

Best mobile setup?

I'm looking to make a mobile setup. Am I better off using a bct15 with a discriminator tap or some sdr dongles. What kind of computer should I use, I was considering a tablet but most are limited on their I/o.

Wall wart help

I guess I tried to stretch the power cord for my PRO-160 too far, as the plug separated from the cord.

Of course, I can't lay my hand on instructions so I'm guessing that with the + on the plug lined up with the flat on the cord, the center conductor is positive, as indicated on the radio.

Will a kind soul please verify that I'm right.

Thanks.

Amp

BCD536HP Hard wire

I want to hard wire my BCD536HP in my vehicle but wasn't sure If I had to use the orange wire. Or can I just wire it with the traditional red and black ?

Uniden Home Patrol

I live in a small town and I am not able to pick up the police anymore, I can get fire though. My zip code is 02917, Smithfield, Rhode Island, does anyone know what the frequency is for the police and if the Uniden Home Patrol scanner will be able to pick it up? Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Car's built in GPS with Uniden Scanner

I’m currently shopping for a new vehicle, and I will likely be going with a 2014-15 Ford Taurus. I’m planning to mount a BCD536HP and I would like to integrate a GPS.

I would like to avoid a separate GPS receiver and/or GPS antenna if possible. Since the car has navigation, a GPS receiver and GPS antenna onboard, has anyone had success in using a car’s built in GPS receiver with a Uniden scanner?

Ht-1550

Hello all, I'm new to motorola so I apologize if this has been covered in the past. I currently own a Kenwood tk-2180, it's a great radio and easy to program. I'm looking towards getting at motorola 1550 as it seems similar to what I have now. I've been reading a lot about motorola programming and it doesn't seem easy. Can anyone give me the bare bones on what it takes to program one and would it even be worth buying a motorola radio?

New with a question

Hey all obviously new here and new to the CB hobby, I had one in personal truck for a few years in the eighties but things have changed I am sure.

I bought a Uniden 590SSB radio and a 4' firestick-2 antenna on recommendation from a friend.

The question I have is on the antenna, did I get a good antenna or not, I have tried to do a search on here for their reviews but with no luck. I read on here about how good the Wilson antennas are but nothing on Firestick.

I understand that the antenna is paramount in the radio's performance and was wondering if I should cancel the order and go with A Wilson or other brand.

This is a mobile unit mounted on a Jeep with a great dedicated antenna mount on a tire carrier, base of antenna at the roof line and excellent metal contact all the way to jeep frame.

Thanks, Bruce.

Lake Stevens Police

Last night I was up there, and for the life of me, I couldn't figure out what they use. Research showed they are dispatched by SNOPAC as opposed to SnoCom (all police, fire, ambulance in SnoCo are dispatched by one of the two).

So which talkgroups do they operate on?

Med-Com Department San Antonio ?

Saw an update to the SA/BC Provoice system that added two talk groups under the heading of Med-Com Department with a tone out TG and and Ops TG. Never heard of this before does it have to do with Airlife? or is a private company on this system now.

HT1000 Narrowband

I just got two HT1000 DN models for a good price that included programming. I have a question regarding these radios. What would happen if say you had a wideband frequency and entered it as narrowband? Also how can I tell if a frequency is narrow or wideband?

The reason I ask this is because I had all the frequencies entered as narrow 12.5 KHz but I think that was a mistake on my part. I have a few frequencies that I for sure know were narrowband and they work fine with beautiful crisp RX audio. But on a few others there is the same humming/buzzing noise I had with another HT1000. I think that the buzzing is coming from entering the wideband frequencies as narrow. But I have very limited knowledge on this so that is why i'm asking you guys.

Would it help for me to list the frequencies?

Thank you

Large police presence north of Clinton

Two people on horseback have been shot, police looking for suspect or suspects. OPP not saying much at this time.

Moonbounce

protecting yagi with PVC or other material

I am in the process of building a homemade yagi (for 2.4GHz). Once done I would like to be able to protect it from the elements and thought I could place it inside a PVC pipe. I cannot find any definitive answers on the web regarding the effects of PVC and 2.4GHz. Would PVC have any effect on the RF? Additionally, is there a material that would 'help' the directionality (narrow it) and/or the gain of the yagi?

Thanks

Marcellus Shale Operational Frequencies

Hello, I am searching for operational frequencies in Western Pennsylvania. I understand at one time their was a allocated block related to energy but I have been away from the hobby and it has changed so much....Just not sure where to look and would appreciate a good starting point.

Thank you and good signals.

Registering WS-1080 on Whistler site

Has anyone successfully registered their new WS-1080, or for that matter, and new Whistler scanner, on their website. Under product registration at Whistler Group | High Performance Radar Detectors and Electronics, there is no category to register scanners, and where it says Select models, I see nothing.

I do see the WS-1080 listed plus the manual.

Thank you.

Steve AA6IO

New to radios. Want to listen in.

Howdy folks.

My county is listed here. http://ift.tt/1tReYFB

What I would really like to do is purchase a used minitor v that would work on our county's public safety system, but I don't know if that'll work.

I really want to be able to listen in on our key channels (Dispatch 1, 2 & 3, as well as a handful of our Tac channels) but even just dispatch on a Minitor would be fine.

What's the best solution to being able to listen in on these frequencies, without dropping my entire wallet at the store, or online?

Once again, I'm new to radios in general, and have little knowledge with programming unless its basically step-by-step.

SSB on the IC-R1? Yes!

Ever since the Icom IC-R1 first came out 25 years ago, people had asked "could it receive SSB?" And the answer was no. Until now.

Icom IC R1 SSB demo 3 - YouTube

(there's other earlier demos too if you want to look for them)

Its long been a dream of mine to add SSB to the IC-R1, and have finally gotten around to modifying it to fit a BFO internally, which gets switched on by inserting a shorting plug into the 'line out' socket on the IC-R1. It's not perfect, the filters are a bit wide, and the smallest tuning steps of 0.5kHz mean that sometimes you won't get quite close enough to being 'spot on tune' - but as this video shows, it can work quite well.

The ham station received in the video is from Spain, received in Australia, with just the stock FA-4B Icom rubber duck antenna.

A while ago, I wrote a combined modification / review for a local scanning website, and this will soon be updated with the SSB mod for the Icom IC-R1; will post the URL here when that is ready.

Radio Shack on the ropes

Apparently the Shack has been burning through cash reserves and if it can't find an investor, it won't make it to the Christmas season.

Ouch.

madisonville pd freq started making a digital noise tonight

Around 11:30pm this started.. Not hearing anything but that noise??? County sheriff is still coming in..

MPD: 155.625

Well they are coming in now started at 12:40am first since 11:30

Anyone know what could cause this?

Dual speaker Mode for Orion help

Hello, I want to use 2 speaker, 1 which is a GE COMMINUCATION EXTERNAL and the other one included in my handset. I want canceler that of my speaker and transfer it to my phone.

Thank you for your help.

436HP in Honolulu

Does anyone know how to get the 436HP to receive HPD, HFD and EMS in Honolulu? I have tried everything I can think of. Still I never hear any of these departments.

Topeka PD on the KHP talkgroups?

For some reason Topeka talkgroups are spread out across the khp b zone event channels. I'm hearing them on B event 2, 3, and 4 so far.

Anyone know what's going on?

# Of Posts Went Down?

Good evening admin I wanted to ask as to why my number of posts went from 836 to 821? Could an admin explain what happenend. I didnt get an infration did I? If someone can help me please.

Thank you

samedi 13 septembre 2014

Any use for analog trunker?

I've a pro2050 (analog only) and am wondering if there's any use for it as far as trunking in SW Indiana goes?

Any reply appreciated!

PA troopers shot last night

Didn't see anything here yet but another senseless act on public safety officers outside a barracks at a shift change. Two troopers ambushed one fatally shot other seriously injured. Manhunt for suspect. It is things like this that I am for departments getting surplus equipment and having the tools they need. With more dangers in our society these guys need the tools many questioned that Ferguson police had.

Authorities ID Pennsylvania state trooper killed in ambush; say suspect is at large | Fox News

EMS Repeaters and BC125AT

Hi guys I just moved not far from credit Vally hospital and was wondering how good I would be able to pick up the repeater a with my Diamond RH77CA which I already have purchased and my Uniden BC125AT I'm looking at getting.

Thanks

San Antonio Military TRS updates

I thought I would try to update the San Antonio Military TRS db page. I live near Randolph. Here is what I have heard from the Randolph site. If you live near any of the other sites could you help update the db with any changes.

56864 RAFB Fire/Crash CH-1

56880 RAFB Fire/Crash CH-2

57008 RAFB Ground Control

57024 RAFB Aircraft Maintenance and Avionics

57072 RAFB Aircraft Maintenance Operations

57104 RAFB Fuel Operations

57136 RAFB Transportation Busses

57216 RAFB Airfield Operations Primary

unknown new talkgroups

57088 RAFB Maint

57232 RAFB unknown

57248 RAFB unknown

Thanks

Don

Tower fire.

Never saw a tower smoking like this one in Thurston.

Cell tower fire near Thurston High sends up smoky plume | Local & Regional | KATU.com - Portland News, Sports, Traffic Weather and Breaking News - Portland, Oregon

David Kb7uns

DPS Conroe VHF or 1A7?

After being away from the hobby for a bit, I recently procured an Astro Saber VHF. I noticed I am hearing almost nil from DPS Conroe. The last I was actively monitoring (couple years ago), DPS was still primarily VHF and multicasting on 1A7 also. I knew they have talk groups on 1A7, but have they totally moved dispatch/routine traffic to TxWarn? I was looking forward to having the Statewide DPS plan in the radio, plus my regular analog Fire, RR, and ham favorites. But if DPS really doesn't use the VHF side anymore, I might as well go back to a Jedi series radio for VHF analog and put my p25 resources towards the 700/800 side of it.

Monitoring trunk system

I live in Grapevine, Texas and want to monitor mostly the local Grapevine PD channels.I presently do not have a digital scanner. The PD is part of the Northeast Tarrant County trunked APCO 25 system

Since I do not need thousands of channels and features, is there a lower priced scanner that can monitor APCO 25 digital with out costing $400 to $500?

Terestial TV Reception

Hi guys/gales;

Not sure if this is the right place for this post but, here it goes. Normally I can easily pick up over-the-air TV channels from both South Bend and Chicago but lately I haven't been able to get squat. I have tried re-aiming the antenna, different receivers, cables, etc. I know there is an bit of a space storm going on and was wondering if this could be affecting my reception?

Winston Salem Airshow

Heard at the Winston Salem Airshow today:

Air Boss 123.75

Airshow Discrete 123.15

The Civil Air Patrol cadets were active on the Intersquad Radio channels.

<1> 396.875

<2> 397.125

<3> 397.175

<4> 397.375

<5> 397.425

<8> 397.550

Also on CAP Tac 1 (139.875) and CAP Guard 1 (150.225).

Airshow personnel were on a lot of the "DOT" and "STAR" business band frequencies.

Purple Dot 151.955

Yellow Dot 464.550

Brown Dot 464.500

K Dot 467.8125

Red Star 467.900

Blue Star 467.925

The airshow starts again tomorrow at 11:45 am.

Temple Terrace FD

Are they using the Hills EDACS system?

GM300 codeplug

Hi all

New to here

So please don't shout.

OK here's my problem.

I have a GM300 radio model number M34GMC00D3AA

and i believe we bricked it by blanking the codeplug.

What I am looking for is a bog standard codeplug, unmodified.

438-470 8 channel 12.5khz spacing.

I now know don't touch it but too late we did.

I want to try to see if i can rescue the radio, now no harm in trying.

If you can help much appreciated.

Thanks

David

M1CGP

Seneca County grant.

This info was taken from Senecadailynews.com and I do not take any credit for writing it

I'm just reposting it here.

If there are any updates on this radio system I will post them as well.

The New York State Department of Homeland Security & Emergency Services has awarded Seneca County $6 million to upgrade the public safety radio communications network to an interoperable communications system, allowing emergency responders to communicate easily and rapidly.

The new system will use six towers and upgraded digital radio equipment to improve communication between 911 dispatchers in Cayuga, Seneca, and Tompkins counties, and assist law enforcement, fire, and ambulance personnel to respond to emergencies faster.

fingerlakes daily news

By Greg Cotterill

Help reducing noise on FT-1900R

I recently installed a Yaesu FT-1900R in my car. I have it powered directly off the battery, and my signal is clean as a mountain spring. My issue is that the radio is so sensitive that I'm constantly getting buzzsaws and other noise—often at S9, so I can't even squelch it out. Aside from simply blocking out those frequencies, is there anything I can to to attenuate the signal a bit?

BCD396XT Uniden BCD396T (Trunktracker IV)

Help Needed. I have a chance of an Uniden BCD396T (UK version UBC3500XLT), but the screen is broken with an dark smudge on it. Is there any way of repairing this damage? I am willing to have a go IF I can get or buy a screen. I Live in the UK, and may have a problem getting a screen on this side of the pond. If anyone knows were to get a screen from or has knowledge of how to repair this unit, please let me know. Thanks in hope

David

Pinellas County P25

Can somebody please give me a breakdown on what agencies are on what sites?

Thank you.

2014 Ford Escape

Anyone have any ideas? I had my 536 on the dashboard in the 2007 Escape. Looking at this one the windshield seems more slanted and might not work as well. Antenna mounting is easy, rear liftgate. Scanner mounting PITA LOL.

NASCAR race spammed/hacked/pirated

Chicagoland Raceway has been the victim of radio pirates.

Early in Saturday's Freaky Fast 300 championship NASCAR race, the ESPN2 commentators have apologized for unauthorized snippets of traffic when they thought they were listening and rebroadcasting pit-to-car transmissions. Also, it was noted during the broadcast that teams were switching channels a lot more than usual.

Question About the GXT 5000

Yes I have one. Ungodly expensive but awesome radio.

I am wondering if anyone has heard anything about a separate battery pack? I do not understand how they could have packaged so much with this and not included a AA battery pack.

Has anyone heard if they are making one or if one is available?

Juuuuuuuust curious...

State Troopers Shot in Pennsylvania

State Troopers Shot in Pennsylvania - WSJ

Lake Forest FD moves to 154.160

Lake Forest FD is now on 154.160 (127.3) ("Quad 4 East") along with Highland Park. I assume that Lake Bluff and Knollwood is there too since they are now all dispatched by "Glenview North" out of Highland Park.

Countryside, Libertyville and Mundelein remain on 154.430 ("Quad 4 West").

Passed my Tech, missed my General by this |-| much!

Went and took my license test today. Passed my Tech exam with a 34/35. I've only been studying for the General since Tuesday, but decided to take the test anyway. Missed it by one question (darn). Ah well, at least I get my ticket! I suppose in a couple of weeks I'll have studied enough to pass my General, so not too big of a deal.

Hoping to get a radio soon and get on the airwaves!

-- B

Wicomico County Fire Tone Outs

Does anyone have the Fire Tone Outs for Wicomico County?

Understanding The 70cm Organization

I'm very confused about the 70cm band.

420-450 is listed as the band.

However, I see a lot of wireless equipment, mostly weather sensors, on 433 MHZ.

Most radios don't even cover the whole band, just 430-450, or some, 440-450.

I've read the ARRL band plan, and a lot of other info that I can find, and I've yet to come across any info about it being a shared band, or Hams being secondary users on some portions.

Any more experienced operations care to enlighten me?

Thanks,

Delta

396T DC power adapter / wall wart help

I picked up a used 396T in nice shape. The power adapter isn't original though. It doesn't look cheap but its rated 5v 2a the 396T shows on the side that it wants 6v 800ma. Yet, the 5v 2a seems to work. Advice please?

panhandle frequencies

I'm visiting in Pampa and with my 436HP loaded with the RR data and outdoor antenna, I hear nothing. I've already discovered the Gray County SO and Pampa PD PL's were incorrect and submitted them for change. I also don't hear the DPS on any of their channels. Has the DPS changed freqs or NAC's?

Vendors Want Change In TN Bid Process For Radio Equipment

Potential vendors ask for changes in state

Pro-Scan Help Needed

Hello,

just got my computer back and trying to put a feed back online.

Using proscan, when trying to connect the scanner back on

line I am getting a pop message of

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Source Client

Set the input sound device to a valid input located in the auto control tab.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If anyone can help out with this I can get the feed back up and running.

Thanks

Tony

Road Atlanta Raceway radio frequencies

I have been unable to locate radio frequencies used at road atlanta raceway for corner workers, saftey, rescue, ems, etc. i would appreciate a list if someone has these frequencies. thank you

Littleton Condo Fire overnight

Centennial Condo Fire | 5280FIRE

Jim<

How do I connect 436HP for virtual control?

I am running Windows 8.1, trial versions of ARC536PRO and ProScan, have the OEM USB cable, the DMA 396 OEM USB cable, a serial DMA cable, and two USB to serial port converters. Neither program is seeing my scanner, and ProScan doesn't even list the 436HP. Tried the UpMan PL2303 v1.6 driver as well as the newer v1.9 Prolific drivers. I am at a loss here. The ARC software is insisting I connect the USB cable, which I am reading everywhere simply DOES NOT WORK. Regardless, when I connected it, it doesn't see the scanner.

I tried this previously on my Windows 7 PC, but had identical results. My trials ran out, so I had to move this to the Windows 8.1 PC. Sentinel works fine with this scanner though, but I need to control it, not program it. Thanks.

Paul

Whistler Ws1080

Can someone post a video of the Whistler 1080 doing Phase 2 P25?

Love to see how it compares to the GRE 800 and Uniden 436Hp.

TIA.

Laird CR450 UHF Base Antenna Mounting Suggestions

Good morning I wanted see if I can get suggestions for mounting this antenna in a mobile home. I was thinking about buying this antenna. As said in my other thread about omnidirectional antennas and yagi antennas. Do you guys think I should by this antenna or not because of the size? It has really good gain to it. Here is the link to the antenna.

http://ift.tt/YGjDkF.

Thank you

o c frequencies

For fire police ems lifeguards with plenty numbers

WS-1080 vs BCD-436HP in Los Angeles Day 1

Received the WS-1080 from Ham Station yesterday (Thanks Jeff for great service).

I will preface this by saying I never owned the PSR-800, so it is going to take me a while to get up to speed with the software.

That said, "You must be kidding me, some people think the PSR-800 (now the WS-1080) is better than the 436HP. Well we must be on a different planet. Because I sure don't. Granted it is only day 1 and I need to learn the radio. But already the screen is scratched. Had it out less than 4 hours, and the screen is scratched.

Then, sometimes the speaker would not come on when had the USB cable plugged into it to use it without the batteries. That seemed to resolve after a while, but have no idea why. Why did I use the USB cable after a couple of hours? Because I could watch the battery indicator going down as I used the scanner. I mean pretty fast.

To be fair, the P25 audio quality sounds a bit more natural on the WS-1080, but not by much. Whereas the P25 decode, in my opinion, is better on the 436HP. This seemed true both on the LAPD conventional P25 and ICIS P25 trunk system.

The big deal for me is the flexibility of the 436HP/536HP to do things on the fly. Maybe I am just used to the Favorite List/Sentinel program now, but I find that very flexible. With no keys to really do anything on the WS-1080, I feel lost.

Yes, the VHF was a bit better on the WS-1080, but not by much. And the 436HP has the nice big display. With the WS-1080, its pretty much the old smaller display. Maybe I am different, but besides hearing the channels and TGs, I like to see lots of information about them.

Again to be fair, I want to give it a couple of weeks with good comparisons between the WS-1080 and 436HP. But something tells me early on (kind of like when I met girls way back in the 1970s - now married 38 years) that the 436HP/536HP are going to continue to be my workhorse scanners.

In fact, I told Jeff at Ham Station to put me on the list for a 1095, but if it is basically the same as the 1080, I probably will forget it.

I realize that I am comparing the PSR-800 to the 436HP, and for me, at least on day 1, it is hands down the 436HP for me in Los Angeles in terms of on the fly flexibility to narrow down what I want to hear from literally thousands of stations. But I may change my mind after a week or two when I get used to EZ scan. Again, however, the inability to use third party software like Butel, ProScan, or Win-500 with the PSR-800/WS1080 is a big negative for me.

Steve AA6IO

Steve AA6IO

set screw connectors

What are the pros/con's of setscrew connectors? I had to replace a connector on an old mount I had yesterday and I said I may as well try it at least for a temp setup to see how it was and so far its working nice but I wanted others opinions on them also

Realistic Pro-2001 Freq search function

I just got ahold of a great, old, Realistic Pro-2001. 16 channels of LED bliss. Although #16 seems to be either shot out or reserved for something. Programmed it easy enough with a Radio Shark search. Has neat FS & SS buttons that seem to stand for Fast Search & Slow Search. It has a frequency search feature but I cannot seem to figure out how to program the ' up ' & ' lo ' of the search parameters. Rat Shack doesn't have any info on it & searching online proved fruitless! No one here seems to have asked either...

vendredi 12 septembre 2014

HP-1 Going Mobile What Speaker do you use ?

I have tried going mobile with my Homepatrol 1 and it is tough to hear the speaker inside my car. What do you use to get the volume up ? I have a good Motorola speaker and it still does not work.

Nexedge in Toronto

After reading the thread about WinDSD created by Eric Cotrell in the software forum, I thought I'd give it a shot and try it out.

It was easy to find the MBC system off of the CN Tower and I was able to log some details.

Clear voice decodes on NEXEDGE and DMR also. :cool:

NYPD CW3 info

So I was listening to NYPD CW3 and I heard a unit come over as "Bus Unit RMP #3346" so I wanted to know if anyone on here could tell me: A.) What is the bus unit? B.) What is their purpose? C.) An estimate of how many cops could be in that unit? D.) What bureau are they assigned to?

and finally E.) What other units use CW3 regularly?

New User - Pro97 Question - Pro97 Programming

Hey everyone,

I'm a new scanner user working with a Radio Shack Pro97 Scanner. I programmed the scanner using Win97. I'm computer proficient, but new to the scanning world. It looks to me like it's programmed properly, but I'm not picking up anything. At first I thought the scanner might be broken, but when switched over to the weather channels it works fine.

I've attached a zip file containing a CSV backup. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Have a great day!

Pat Frame

Attached Files

P97Backup.zip (13.2 KB)

PWC PD

Noticed today all daytime East end PD traffic coming across on TG3122, tonight (after the 1630hrs split of east and central) hearing TG3122 and TG1003. Nothing at all on TG1005. Thought it worth mentioning. Anyone else notice any slight changes in the TGs?

Mutual Aid

do I need put all the Mutual Aid talkgroup in my scanner

Memphis/Shelby County System Clarification

System has two sites. MPD, MFD, SCSO, SCFD are on site one, correct? Hospitals are only on site two? Right now, my 106 is programmed to scan both sites for the former agencies and it takes awhile to go through both systems. I think I should only have these programmed into site one, right? Any other vagaries in the system not noted in the database.

Thanks for your patience.

BCD436HP Problem With Clip Holding Micro Chip

I have experienced problems with the clip that holds the microchip. (SD Card)

Has anyone else experienced similar problems?

Hearing the control channel in the background.

Is it normal for you to slightly hear the control channel in the background of a transmission? I'm using a BCD996XT and It happens mostly on the same TG Channel. At times, other ones, too.

It doesn't affect audio or anything at all, just a general question. Maybe I gotta fiddle with my settings? Because I've never heard it before.

Thanks.

I need to re download ARC500 and i cannot do it

any help. I do have my key codes too

Solar Storm

Large geomagnetic solar storm hits Earth - CBS News

"The geomagnetic field is expected to be at unsettled to major storm levels on day one (12 Sep), active to severe storm levels on day two (13 Sep) and unsettled to minor storm levels on day three (14 Sep)." - CBS News

how does/will this affect radio communications?

New Looking where to post

Hello All,

I am new to this forum looking for some information on our HYT Radios.

We have 4 HYT-TC508s 2 HYT 610s

I was having some trouble with short distance only. We do a lot of work in hospitals in NJ NY CT, can anyone recommend any good frequencies? Like i said I'm new to this forum and commercial grade radios. Hopefully ya don't beat me over the head, haha ;)

Heard good things about Hytera so we scooped a few up.

Main concerns is we are looking for some decent range in hospitals and large high rise buildings currently the HYTs are only going 1-2 floors.

Spectrum Monitoring article on spectrum analyzer

Has anyone here played with the USB dongle RF spectrum analyzer from RF VIEWER -- Low-Cost, RF Spectrum Analyzer | RF VIEWER — Low-Cost, RF Spectrum Analyzer

From the article : a low cost USB dongle RF

spectrum analyzer covering 24 – 1766 MHz with the capability

of scanning up to 300 MHz of spectrum at a time.

The package includes one RTL-SDR dongle, mini-antenna,

instructions for downloading Touchstone-Pro (the

companion software) to a Windows-based PC, a key code

(via email from NutsAboutNets) to access Touchstone-Pro

RF Spectrum Analyzer software and lifetime of free software

upgrades. A free download of the demonstration version of the

software is available for those interested prior to purchase by

going to the Ebay site.

There is a real interesting article about this in the September issue of Spectrum Monitor on line mag. ( The Spectrum Monitor ) This on line mag is by the way a very decent replacement to the late Monitoring Times mag.

I am just now getting into the SDR world and curious if this a worthwhile device. Early days of experimenting.

Confused About Live Feed Achives

I signed up for the premium subscription so I could listen to police live feed archives. I wanted a specific town and time as I reported a good friend of mine that wanted to attempt suicide in Rock Hill, SC. I live in Lexington, SC. He called me at 10:55 pm last night and told me he was going to shoot himself, told me goodbye and hung up. I proceeded to call the Rock Hill Sherriff's Office round 11:30 or after...I know before midnight. They got the information about his name, address, phone number and told me they would call me when they went to his house to determine if he was okay or not. The police called me back from outside of his house to ask me a few more questions, at which time I heard someone in the background say the suspect has a gun, then the police officer said he had to go and hung up. No word for a couple hours, so I tried calling his house, he answered and hung up two time, the third time he kept saying hello, hello, like he couldn't hear me and put the phone down. I could hear him in the back ground saying that he didn't want anyone on his property and that if anyone came through his door he had a 38 to his head and would kill himself. The police called me while I was on the phone and told me that my call was interrupting the negotiator and to hang up which I did immediately. Bob, finally called me 3 hours later and was still inside of his house with the police still outside and talked to me for 20 minutes crying and telling me he was sorry, I pleaded with him to turn himself in, but he said he had nothing left to live for and hung up. I called the sheriffs office this morning and just asked for them to tell me if he was okay or not. They told me that she could not give me the information and would have someone call me back....no one has called me back. I just need to know if he is alright, if I can't achieve the police feed, can someone do this and just tell me if he is okay or not...that's all I want to know.please! My email is janrhys1980@gmail.com. Thank you anyone that can help.

buffalo police

I am having some trouble with the buffalo police frequencies. They come in full of static. I am using a Bearcat BC335N scanner and the frequencies im using are 460.350 and 460.425. The buffalo fine channels work fine. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

Polk County, Florida

Does anybody know what happened to the Polk County Fire Rescue live audio feed? If so do you know when it will be back up and running.

More Trooper Changes

I am now hearing both sides of the Alabama State Troopers on 154.920. It is acting like a repeater. It use to be where I would have to listen to the base on 154.920 and the car on 155.445. Now it is all on 154.920.

medevac rids

hi, does anyone here have a list of medevac radio id's for nj, and the surrounding states ? . any help would be greatly appreciated.

BCD436HP Sentinel Software Question

Well I broke down and purchased the BCD436HP the other day ...

I watched all the YouTube Videos as well as read the manual over and over again.

So I decided to start small and set up a Favorite list

I decided to set a list from Calgary to Cranbrook, BC

I assigned quick keys to each county ... Foothills, Willow Creek, Pincher Creek, Crowsnest

After uploading ... I can get the Favorite Key (#2) to work ...

It seems to be stuck on Crowsnest #4 ... RCMP A2

It says it's scanning but I don't see anything happening.

I have set the Range to Max ...

Hoping I could at least get Foothills.

If I press the Favorite # + E ... and turn it off.

It says "nothing to Scan"

Suggestions as to what I'm doing Wrong?

How to check on the status of Groups 1-2-3?

Thanks

Urgent help - anyone monitoring allen/plano pd pawn this past week

Hello all RR enthusiasts,

I am a radio enthusiast myself, KG5BDB, but was injured in a massive four car pile up on Tuesday,

09-SEP-14 at approximately 1530 hours driving southbound I75 aka North Central Expressway.

Does anyone out there have a radio or audio log of that time frame for the PAWM (Plano, Allen, Wylie and Murphy) networks and the PD dispatch talk groups? I'm trying to determine why the cars were stopped in the road already (did they have a breakdown or a prior accident). I ended up on the backend of it and totaled my car I owned for only a month too (besides it catching on fire so the FD talk group might have it too).

If anyone out there can help me or heard the transmission on the PAWM FD or PD talk groups of Allen and/or Plano, I would appreciate it very much. What. I really need is a recorded audio log, but if any of you heard this and have the text print log of this - that would be appreciated as well.

Thank you all RR members,

Brian - KG5BDB

APX 7000 "Invalid Codeplug"

I recently acquired a VHF/700 Model III APX 7000. When I tried to read it with the CPS, it gave me an "Invalid Codeplug" error. It'll read the model and flashcode configuration. I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but the flashcode is set to all zeros. Unfortunately, I don't have any codeplugs to load in to the radio. Is there a workaround for this, or is this a lost cause?

536hp sd card speed

So I purchased a new sd card class 4 scandisk 8 GB loaded the same data onto it from the card that came with the scanner.

Why does the new card scan and write to the scanner twice as fast as the default?

Should I go to a class 6 card for faster speed or does this make no difference?

Tim

BUTEL ARC396T Software Upgrade??

Hello All,

I have the Butel ARC396T V1.042 Basic. I would like to upgrade the firmware. How can I do that procedure?

Thanks

Anthony

Minitor 5 Beeping on vibrate (push to listen) problem

hey all, have a problem with one of our minitor 5's, i have the SW-C set to silent scan and push to listen box checked, that makes the alert type greyed out, but the pager is still beeping while in the C position. after the beeps it goes straight to silent recording of the dispatcher.

anyone have a clue to why this is happening?

thanks

Apx6000 Bluetooth

Hello all, wondering if anyone has tried any cheap bluetooth ear buds or ear piece on the apx6000 or apx7000. I figured that it would have to be A2dp. I did try the 2 I have which are stereo bluetooth ear buds and they did not work, but my bluetooth speaker did.

Radio Programming

I am soon to receive two Kenwoods (TK-790/TK-890), and the software to program them.

My question is this - there are other radios in the department I need to copy, so can I connect the computer to the head while they are set up together (two radios/one head) and download the load, or do they have to be separated before I can download the frequencies from each one?

Thanks!

Steve

ScanDiego forums down?

Is anyone else having trouble accessing the ScanDiego.com forums? I can see the main index but whenever I click on a topic it just goes to a blank page. Tried both Chrome and IE11 with same problem.

BCD436HP A better BCD436HP internal speaker?

Twice in the the two months I've owned my 436, the speaker has blown. After a three week wait for a 10 minute fix, I'll have had my radio in the shop for 6 weeks out of the 10 or so I've owned it. It's really frustrating since it has never been above 11, maybe 12 on the volume. I think the issue lies in the <lack of> AGC that doesn't seem to do anything on the P25 systems in the area. I'd like to try finding a more robust speaker that I could install myself. Anyone tried or have any ideas about this?

BCD436HP P-25

I am trying to listen to Polk County Texas, I know that everybody says P-25 is a P-25 system no matter who makes it. Polk Couty Texas is a ICOM P-25 system and they are garbled, I can program a motorola P-25 system and everything is fine. What do I need to do to be able to monitor a Icom P-25 system with my BCD436HP ???

Thanks Much

Longmont Area, Fire and EMS scanning

I see Longmont, as well as Mountain View Fire are listed with both VHF Freq's and DTRS talkgroups

Which is the best way to monitor them?

I've got a new BCD396XT and I"m still learning - in spite of the 273 page manual ;-)

I'm hearing Longmont POLICE just fine on their VHF frequencies but I have yet to hear any Fire or EMS traffic.

When I look at the VHF page in the database it says they're on DTRS

When I go the Boulder County section for the DTRS it states that they're still on VHF

??????

Transpeater III

I am looking for either a place to buy one of these, but I believe that they are discontinued, or suggestion for a similar replacement. They will be using Jedi connectors on the XTS5000 radios.. Thanks in advance

Transpeater III

Where is everyone ordering coax from?

I'm looking to buy ~100ft of Belden 8267 (RG-213). Problem is, the cheapest I can find it ~$1.15/ft. I found some knockoff from Amateurradiosupply.com for $0.75/ft, but I'm afraid it is crap quality and would be worth the extra $30 to get the real stuff.

Has anyone got some hidden gem of a dealer selling the OEM Belden stuff for under $1/ft?

HomePatrol LCD screen messed up

I have been so busy with my 436HP and 536HP, with comparisons with my 396XT and 996XT, that I have not turned on my HP1 with Extreme in a couple of months. Last night I turned it on, and surprise, the LCD screen had a 1 inch black spot (star-shaped) up in left upper corner, 50% of the rest of the screen pure white, and the rest was very unclear. Obviously my LCD screen has crapped out. Anyone else ever experienced this problem with HP1. Scanner is about 2 years old, so I know the warranty is expired. Is this something Uniden can fix if I send it in. Any advice please.

Thank you

Steve AA6IO

BCDx36HP Computer Software Programming Request/Challenge

I recently picked up 2 BCD536HPs. One will be remote mounted in my vehicle (2006 Chevy Trailblazer) under the rear deck, and controled with a Windows Tablet. I have everything setup in the house right now, and the system works with regards to the tablet being able to control the scanner and give a remote display of the display. This is replacing a BCD996XT with the RH-96 control head, so it's a matter of running the RS-232 cable-everything else was already in place. The system is part of a remote fuse block that controls all of my electronics, and is controlled by a relay which is switched at the dash.

The issue is the display size available in the software. Considering it's going to be mounted on a RAM mount to my left, I need a bigger display/interface than either Proscan or ARC536 provide. I have looked at the various magnification programs out there, but none of them are window specific. I am not a programmer, so I do not know what would be involved in making the display/control windows able to increase in size. I would like the option for 100%, 200% or full screen-am I overreaching?

Rutgers/New Brunswick

Hi. Until recently the security guards at Rutgers NB (not the police officers) were on 470.725. But i've heard nothing on that freq for the last week or two. Does anybody know what's up with this? Thanks.

ICOM CI-5 Protocol to Ethernet adaptor

It seems to me that this could be quite useful i.e. control or monitor etc any scanner support CI-5 over the Net.

The alternative is a scanner with a built in web server which no one appears to have produced to date?

And no, I do not want to set up a PC just for this purpose. Something like a Raspberry Pi could also handle CI-5 to Ethernet without even blinking, however my preferred programming language is solder.

President Cheney

This is something I've wondered about for years but Dick won't return my calls. ;)

Does anyone know how it came about, and from whom, that decided Cheney would lead the search for W's vice president and then ends up picking himself?

I don't know why but this has always intrigued me to no end.

Thanks

jeudi 11 septembre 2014

Dublin CHP question

Is Dublin CHP set up differently? I drove through today to Walnut Creek from Stockton. Switched over to Dublin hitting the Alameda County line on 580. The entire trip in I only got dispatch on the base. On the way out I got roughly 2-3 units that came up along with dispatch. What am I missing there or what do they not have turned on?

CHP pursuit - Watsonville

I heard a long lived pursuit today by CHP for someone wanted on assault on officer (code was attempted murder PC 187). I was able to follow it on the scanner up until the guy went off into the woods, so was not able to find out the outcome.

This was broadcast on CHP Monterey Black channel.

Anyone else pick this up?

Allen County: T.J. Lane, Ohio High School Shooter, Escapes From Prison

Allen County Public Safety

Seems most MARCS traffic was moved or patched to ECOMM 12, but dunno if the Allen County Public Safety feed has that talkgroup programmed in.

Pro 197 update timed out??

cant update firmware

scanner now doesnt have firmware

up bootver: RF1.2

up App ver: NONE

CPU SW Upgrade

wait for PC/IF

Ive tried version 1.4 1.7 2.0 and 2.1

I can get the scanner to enter upgrading.. mode but the upgrade utility will stop and I get a message that says TIMED OUT WAITING FOR RESPONSE FROM SCANNER. ??

Lv ks pd question

Tonight I had 2 LV PD cars in front of my house for a traffic stop, yet I heard NO traffic from any of that.

This is what I have programed in my 106 for LV PD, if some one else has any thing diff please let me know

Thanks.

This is what I have. TSYS = LV PD / TGID # 4247 / P25 / 851.8500cc / 852.0625 ac

westchester trunked system cross band repeaters

here is a current list of x band repeaters if anyone has any more to list please feel free

low band cross band channels

fire 10 46.04

fire 13 45.72

fire 15 46.02

fire 15 45.62

fire 16 46.20

fire 16 46.22

fire 17 45.82

uhf cross band

fire 10 460.3250

fire 17 453.3250

pro106 firmware update

need to update pro 106 been out of the loop few yrs. at 1.8 now.having hard time .