[Scan-DC] Prince William County issues

[Jeff Krauss]

Does Prince William use LSM Simulcast?
Does D.J. live inside PW County or outside?

I live in Rockville and can't receive Fairfax County, even though the 
signal is strong.  But the multiple near-equidistant transmit sites 
interfere with one another.  When I drive over into Fairfax, no 
problem receiving because I'm closer to one transmit site than the others.


At 08:00 PM 7/3/2015, Alan Henney wrote:
>Dayton Hamvention 2015
>Any advice for D.J.?
>
>From: D.J.
>Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 8:43 AM
>To: Alan Henney
>Subject: Prince William County issues
>
>Well it all started a few weeks ago. Not hearing much at all anymore 
>on Prince William except analog fire and rescue dispatch and 
>Manassas City PD and Manassas Park PD. I have four scanners and they 
>all went silent including one Phase 2. Apparently Radio Reference 
>still has nothing updated in their data base. Sometimes things kind 
>of suddenly will sound normal on Fire/EMS and Prince William Co PD 
>and the can be heard on the P25 then after a few hours or maybe 
>minutes completely silent again. Three of my four scanners are non 
>phase 2 and even though I have the Phase 2 frequencies programmed on 
>the non phase 2 I do hear the traffic on them anyway on those non 
>Phase 2 frequencies when that sudden traffic is heard.   My only 
>phase 2 scanner (BCD436 HP) again appears to work only at times then 
>silent again but the other non phase 2 have the same intermittent 
>traffic anyway also.  I found a brief discussion about it on Radio 
>Reference concerning PW County is in the process of reban
>  ding and reception issues and some are saying they are not really 
> phase 2 yet saying TDMA vs something but it's not clear.  I thought 
> I would ask if you had any knowledge about the issue because it is 
> very confusing what's going on there.
>
>http://forums.radioreference.com/virginia-radio-discussion-forum/312029-prince-william-county.html
>
>Sorry to bother you but thanks for your help.
>
>D.J.
>
>On Jun 27, 2015, at 12:43 AM, Alan Henney <alan at henney.com> wrote:
>
>
>From: D.J.
>Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 9:16 PM
>To: Alan Henney
>Subject: Re: Dayton Hamvention 2015
>
>Hey Alan question.
>
>I didn't see anything about this on your site but I've been 
>monitoring Prince William County for a long time. Recently things 
>have gone silent especially on the fire and rescue side. I notice 
>they did upgrade to a Phase 2 system but I have a Phase 2 scanner 
>and carefully downloaded the Phase 2 programming on my BCD436HP but 
>I still don't hear anything on those channels despite hearing plenty 
>of traffic when using the scanner apps available for my phone.
>
>Do you have any idea what the problem might be?
>
>Thanks.
>
>D.J.
>
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