[Scan-DC] Monitoring Montgomery County

[Ed Tobias]

Sentinel has now retrieved the P25 system info and the associated talk groups from Radio Reference. I can see a CC signal is being received but I can’t hear anything, so far, on the new system. 

Interestingly, RR only has the dispatch TGs in its police group, while the fire/rescue TGs seem complete. I wonder if we’ll see any more for police. 

Ed

Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 27, 2020, at 2:47 AM, Greg Danes <danesgswolf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> While I live across the river in Loudoun county. I too have noticed a
> downturn in P16 comms in the last few days via various receivers listening
> to MD systems. The new system (s) may not have simulcast programmed as
> before or does not have something pulled over (yet) from the old system. I
> also notice this here, with P1 systems but the difference I think is I
> think VA got the basic Phase 1 systems talking correctly with the newer P2
> ones in a way MC may this be working on as far as interop. MC may be
> smoothing out a few things and since this all happened over a few days I
> would let them work out things in the next few weeks and see what happens.
> 
> I feel having listened to MC so much that the radio techs will not let us
> down in being open to the system.
> 
> Just an observation from VA
> KJ4DGE
> 
>> On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 11:18 PM Jeff Krauss <jeff at krauss.ws> wrote:
>> 
>> From what I can tell, the Uniden Sentinel database does not yet have
>> the Montgomery P25 system.
>> I entered a few Fire and Police talkgroups manually but I haven't
>> heard anything yet.
>> 
>> At 07:19 PM 12/26/2020, edtobias at comcast.net wrote:
>>> A few days before Christmas I decided to update the database in my
>> BCD436HP.
>>> I use the free Sentinal software to program the radio so it was a simple
>>> matter of clicking "Update master database" and then uploading it to the
>>> radio. Voila, a large number of new frequencies were added to my Montgo
>>> system and I assumed these were the new P25 additions. I immediately
>> noticed
>>> a significant improvement to the reception here in the Downtown Crown
>>> section of Gaithersburg - far fewer dropouts - and I saw that P25 was
>>> showing as the system-type at the bottom of the radio's display. I
>> wondered
>>> if they'd turned up the new system early. I guess they did, and the
>>> difference is very noticeable here.
>>> 
>>> Ed
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net <scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net>
>> On
>>> Behalf Of Jeff Krauss
>>> Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2020 5:16 PM
>>> To: Gregory Good gmail <gregorycgood at gmail.com>; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>>> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Monitoring Montgomery County
>>> 
>>> My Uniden bcd436hp is still picking up Montgomery County P16.
>>> Ditto for my RadioShack units.
>>> 
>>> At 04:31 PM 12/26/2020, Gregory Good gmail wrote:
>>>> Is anyone else having issues monitoring Montgomery County. My Uniden
>>>> 996P2 stopped receiving Montgomery. I keep getting looking for control
>>>> channel. Let me know your thoughts.
>>>> 
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Gregory Good
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> ______________________________________________________________
>>>> Scan-DC mailing list
>>>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/scan-dc
>>>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>>>> Post: mailto:Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
>>>> 
>>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email
>>>> list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
>>> https://www.avast.com/antivirus
>>> 
>>> ______________________________________________________________
>>> Scan-DC mailing list
>>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/scan-dc
>>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>>> Post: mailto:Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
>>> 
>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software.
>> https://www.avast.com/antivirus
>> 
>> ______________________________________________________________
>> Scan-DC mailing list
>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/scan-dc
>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>> Post: mailto:Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
>> 
>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>> 
> ______________________________________________________________
> Scan-DC mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/scan-dc
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> 
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html