[Scan-DC] MoCo police scanning

[Doug Kitchener]

I had been having the same problems with my Uniden BC796; last night I did all the firmware updates on it and it is "under test" right now.  So far it seems to be working better as far as the open carrier / scanning not resuming, and getting (not) the talkgroups mixed up - I don't think that's happened at all in the course of about four hours.  However, there seems to be a lot of garbles... I'm not sure about this next statement, but the garbles _seem_ to be more on the police side than fire... I'm going to try and track this... am scanning Gaithersburg and Germantown PD talkgroups.

DK

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> From: crayh5o at hotmail.com
> To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:14:36 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] MoCo police scanning
>
>
> I am still having trouble listening to MoCo with my RS Pro-96. Sometimes transmissions sound garbled. Also, sometimes after a transmission, it sounds like there is an open carrier and scanning doesn't resume. Then, I'll pick up transmissions that are from other talkgroups which doesn't match what is being displayed.
>
> Anyone experience this and have a work around for the Pro-96?
>
> Ray >Everything seems to be working fine this morning. I'm hearing the primary
> >TGs (A1 through A6) loud and clear, with no extraneous transmissions,
> >sitting in the Rockville area with a Pro-96 and a rubber duck.
>
>
> Ed
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Kahn" <jrkahn at att.net>
> To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 11:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] MoCo police scanning
>
>
> >I wonder if the Techs are getting ready to reband? It would make sense to
> > start testing in Rockville.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> > [mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of BLGY2K at aol.com
> > Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 3:50 PM
> > To: racerpgt at aol.com; Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] MoCo police scanning
> >
> >
> > Hi Matt,
> > I am also having the same garbled transmission problem with the MontCo
> > TRS. This started a few days ago (last Thursday night?) and noticed this
> > only
> > in the Rockville area. I am guessing one of the transmitting sites is
> > acting up or is broadcasting on low power. Recently, I have noticed a
> > continuous carrier tone broadcasting on the 17840 - Radio Communications
> > talkgroup.
> > I am assuming the radio technicians are well aware of this issue and
> > hopefully resolve the problem soon.
> >
> > -Ben G
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 1/8/2012 2:22:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > racerpgt at aol.com writes:
> >
> > Anyone using a pro96 to scan mo-co popo? I am using radio reference
> > tables
> > and lately the listening has been horrible with garbled transmissions,
> > fire rescue transmissions on the channel (when paused on rockville
> > dispatch),
> > and other districts coming up on the paused channel.
> >
> > Anyone else with similar issues?
> >
> > Matt