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Originally Posted by c1o2p3
I searched around to see if the control channel only option is available for this model....and IT IS!! I entered just the control frequency for Weber simulcast and it seems to track everything just as well as the other mode. This seems too good to be true. Are there any downsides to scanning in this method? From everyone else's experience, does this method scan just as well as the other or do you seem to miss out on certain traffic? I've been using this scanner for about four years and never even realized this option was available. Is this how everyone else has been scanning this whole time?
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I have 4 trunking scanners and I have set up several more for other people. I have ALWAYS used CCO mode exclusively since I learned about it on my BC780XLT. I am not aware of any downside, as long as your scanner supports it. Just make sure your BCT8 has been updated for rebanding and that your trunking tables are entered properly, and you should be able to get everything.
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Originally Posted by c1o2p3
Second question. Just to make sure I understand your explanations so far, if someone could just confirm what I think is the case...As I mentionned earlier, I was listening to davis law (TG 9440). I noticed one of the frequencies it was using was 852.9250 which is one of the frequencies on the Weber Simulcast and not the Davis Simulcast. Since I live in the Ogden area, I'm assuming it is because of my location. So let's take for example the same trafffic that was broadcasted......I received it as 852.9250 because I'm here in Weber County. Would someone in Farmington, listening to the same traffic at the same time, hear it on another frequency (let's use 852.4750 just as an example since it's on the Davis Simulcast) since they're in Davis county close to another site?
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YES! - It sounds like you are really coming up to speed on trunking.
As stated before, if someone is affiliated with the Weber site and their radio is set to the Davis Law channel (TG 9440), then a COPY of all traffic for that TG will be broadcast CONCURRENTLY on both sites. Weber will use one of the frequencies from it's list, and Davis will use a frequency from it's list. If you are scanning both Weber and Davis your scanner will stop on whichever transmission it found first. If you hit the scan button right then and no other TG's were active, your scanner would stop on the same conversation, from the other site, on a different frequency.
In fact, if someone is affiliated with ANY site (that their TG has permissions for), a copy of all traffic for their TG will be broadcast concurrently on ANY site, using a separate frequency for each site. That's why we Wasatch Front folks can sometimes hear traffic from Cache Valley, Wendover, or even St. George. Pretty Cool, huh?
-bc