Henderson County ?

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

CB Firestick Experiment

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.

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