[Scan-DC] Problems Monitoring Montgomery TRS w/ BC-796

[Doug Kitchener]

Thanks to all... Matt, it dawned on me this morning that someone had mentioned something similar and I had planned to go back and see who and what it was, thanks for the reminder.  Cathy, I hadn't thought to look at the attenuation but will do so, good idea.

Everything seems to be working fine this morning... last night it was un-listenable-to... I suspect that something is going on with the county's radio system.

Regards,

Doug

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> From: cathy at drzyzgula.org
> To: racerpgt at aol.com; oldsdoug at hotmail.com; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: RE: [Scan-DC] Problems Monitoring Montgomery TRS w/ BC-796
> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:11:40 -0500
>
> I've also had problems with my Home Patrol sticking on a channel after the
> transmissions have ended, leaving random signals and static. I turned on
> the attenuation and set the squelch lower and that has helped, but not
> completely solved the problem.
>
> Cathy D
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Matt
> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 11:50 PM
> To: oldsdoug at hotmail.com; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Problems Monitoring Montgomery TRS w/ BC-796
>
> Doug,
>
>
> I noticed this on my Pro-96 earlier this week. Someone on the list mentioned
> it may have been due to some radio shop problems.
>
>
> Matt
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Kitchener 
> To: scan-dc 
> Sent: Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:44 pm
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Problems Monitoring Montgomery TRS w/ BC-796
>
>
>
> All,
>
> Recently (last 10 days or so) I've noticed problems when monitoring
> Montgomery County on my Uniden BC-796 (note that this is a first-generation
> 800 MHz digital trunking scanner). If it's locked on a particular
> talkgroup, am picking up a lot of static, sounds like squelch is open.
> Also, am picking up stray transmissions from different talkgroups other than
> the one that the radio is locked on.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Could this possibly be due to this rebanding / narrow-banding business?
> Or is Montgomery just having problems? (No problems noted when I use my
> newer Radio Shack / GRE PRO-197). I admit to being 'way behind on that and
> basically have no idea what's going on with it, who's done it, who has yet
> to do it, when the deadline is, whether or not there's more than one thing
> going on, etc. - will have to get busy and read up on it.
>
> 2. I've never done any firmware upgrades to this radio (well, maybe one
> very early on, I can't remember any more - am checking that out now, but
> could that also have something to do with this?
>
> There seems to be something that needs to be done in order to be able to
> enter a custom bandplan that has to do with rebanding -
>
> http://info.uniden.com/twiki/bin/view/UnidenMan4/BC796DFirmwareUpdate
>
> If I understand this correctly, first "BC_VUP v2.0.0.7" should be installed;
> then "BC796D_V3_60.scn" - has anyone else done this / had to do this? Any
> thoughts, questions, comments, pointers?
>
> Thanks in advance... as I mentioned, I'm digging into this, and will post
> whatever I find, whenever I find it out, but would appreciate any input, esp
> from other folks who are using the same radio and / or may have noticed the
> same things.
>
> Regards,
>
> Doug
>
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