[Scan-DC] MoCo police scanning

[Alan Henney]

The "garbles," I am afraid, are the increasing use of encryption.  What 
talkgroups do you hear it on?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave" <afdltret at comcast.net>
To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] MoCo police scanning


>  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.