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Old 09-23-2009, 09:31 PM
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Default Henn Co System Affiliations?

I am living in Bloomington near the MOA and am wondering what towers/sites I should program for each agency to effectively hear everyone in Hennepin County? I assume from home (10th floor apt by the MOA) I would be able to pickup the different systems independently, so what agencies would have their home on each system? Is there a lot of roaming where I would want certain agencies duplicated on each system?

The problem I have run into in the past with the 396t is that I attempt to put too many talkgroups into a bank and it won't let me. I run the scanner in "scan" mode vs "search" mode because I hate not knowing who i'm listening to. Thank God for alpha tags!
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Old 09-24-2009, 12:49 AM
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It's a might old, but you might check out Minnesota Digital System Talkgroups which shows affiliations with systems. Another interesting one, and it has 396 files you can download, is http://www.geocities.com/mn_metroscan/ though the data files may not include the re-banding done a short while back.

Living on the 10th floor is good, though you might see if you can set up an outdoor antenna (like sneaking an antenna wire through the window opening. I imagine your building is concrete which "soaks up" a lot of RF.

Unfortunately my travels to Minnesota are but once a year, but I do bring my scanners with. What I've done with my 396 is to program "disciplines" into different systems. For example, on the Hennepin East system I'll have all the fire talkgroups. Then I might have another Hennepin East system with law enforcement. I also have a "Minneapolis" system with the MPD and MFD.

The 396 is not friendly to the systems in Minnesota. You'll have to set up a "396 System" for each "Armer sub-system" (Minneapolis, Ramsey, Hennepin East, Hennepin West, Dakota, etc). You cannot program the Minneapolis sub-system with, for example, the Hennepin East system. If you do, it stops on the first control channel it hears and locks into that, and by-passes any others.

The state patrol is kinda all over the board - on the Minneapolis/Ramsey site, Minneapolis site and Hennepin sites, whichever happens to be available when the trooper keys up. So if you want to listen only to the SP, you'll have to create several systems with their talkgroups for just that.

I manage them by using Quick keys. Quick key 1 is for fire, 2 is for police, 3 is EMS, 4 is state patrol etc.

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Old 09-24-2009, 09:28 AM
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I live a few blocks from the MOA and I find that the best tower is 852.3625. That is Hennepin Co. east.
I use that for Henn. Co., Bloomington and the western suburbs, and even the state patrol.
I would program all of the S-Tac, P-Tac and L-Tac talkgroups in each of the systems, or make a separate bank for them and leave it on all the time.
Are you scanning the MOA and the MSP airport?
I have all of the talk groups you need if you want to contact me. Frank
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I have the talkgroups, i'm just trying to figure out how to organize everything so it's easy to hear/find/lockout what I want with the different sites
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I live a few blocks from the MOA and I find that the best tower is 852.3625. That is Hennepin Co. east.
I use that for Henn. Co., Bloomington and the western suburbs, and even the state patrol.
I would program all of the S-Tac, P-Tac and L-Tac talkgroups in each of the systems, or make a separate bank for them and leave it on all the time.
Are you scanning the MOA and the MSP airport?
I have all of the talk groups you need if you want to contact me. Frank
That makes sense Frank.... being as Hennepin has a third tower within a mile or two of the MOA, which is a simulcast of the Henn East system.


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kc0net,
RR says your on line right now. Trying to get a message to you. Haven't really got the hang of RR posting ect. New at trucking too but thought I was getting the hang of it, then read your post about towers and you totally lost me. If your willing to share some info and since I'm not sure what I'm doing here, if you would like to respond to jao9900@aol.com that's fine. Thanks.
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