[Scan-DC] Another ICC talk group?

[Eric C. Carlson]

32691 is 32688 with the +3 "status bit" which indicates a talkgroup
patch.  I recommend that most people keep the status bit display
disabled on their scanners (for those that support this) as it mostly
just adds unnecessary confusion.

Motorola talkgroups in the scanner world are listed in multiples of 16
due to the way the original Uniden trunktracker displayed them (which
we have been stuck with ever since).  The logical talkgroup number is
the "Uniden decimal number" divided by 16, so 32688 is talkgroup 2043.
 You can read more here:
http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Motorola_Type_II_Smartnet

-Eric

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Joel, confirming 32691, right?
>
> I don't find that one in the Montgomery County system as listed on radioreference, so I wonder if it's a new one.
>
> Another odd or unusual thing is that that's an odd number... I don't have the vaguest understanding of how these TG numbers work, but I just ran an eye down them in the Montgomery system and _all_ of them are even numbers, unless I missed something... can anyone enlighten?  (Have always wondered that, why don't they just start at 1 and go to whatever... actually I think the new Arlington system may do that...)
>
> Did you have that TG programmed in for something, or Were you doing a search?  What receiver are you using?
>
> I haven't been listening to ICC stuff since Sunday & haven't yet tried to see if I can hear them from "base" in Gaithersburg (presumably I should be able to...)
>
> Fascinating...
>
> DK
>
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>> From: jrkahn at att.net
>> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 17:06:38 -0500
>> Subject: [Scan-DC] Another ICC talk group?
>>
>> I am now hearing what I believe to be ICC traffic stops by MTA on
>> talk group 32691 today, but nothing on the other 2 talk groups
>> from last week. Am I correct?