[Scan-DC] MoCo police scanning

[Dave]

  Is it possible the "garbles" on the Police side are digital talk 
groups? The 796 is not all that great with digital and you need a strong 
signal to decode same. I am not familiar with Moco just throwing out 
this possibility.

Dave m.




On 1/28/2012 12:44, Doug Kitchener wrote:
> 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
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