Jackson County Problems Since Reband.

[Humble_Mustang]

I have a Uniden BC796D Scanner with a spider Antenna mounted on a 30 ft Mast located in north east Jackson County about 7 miles south of the Jackson/George County line and 1/2 mile east of HWY 613.

Before re-banding I was able to receive signals (Emergency and Law enforcement) both trunked from Jackson county plus conventional signals from surrounding counties. In early August, I noticed that I was not getting the Jackson County Trunk signals. After some research, I discovered the need to update the scanner bios and to add or change freqs.

On August 7 I downloaded and installed the latest bios that would allow me to receive the re-band freqs. After some searching and experimenting I was able to receive the signals I wanted (Emergency and Law enforcement in Jackson and George counties) again.

Some time in September I noticed the "trunked" signals were not working so I started trying to get them again.

My problem:

If I hook up the outside antenna on the 30' foot mast, I can receive the Conventional signals from all of the counties but the trunked signals have little traffic and when it does stop on a talk group I seldom get any voice traffic.

When I hook up the short whip antenna that came with the unit, I get great traffic from the trunked frequencies but NO conventional signals.

It seems if I get one type signal to work the other type will not work.

I set the scanner to control channel and put the 38 trunked frequencies into band one and loaded the talk groups I wanted. I tried no plan, plan 1 through 4 with no joy.

I don't have any idea as to what else I can do. I am open to any and all suggestions.

Thanks in advance.
eddie

[KE5TLF]

A. Site 002 "Moss Point" is what is active at present and is all you should use for the time being. If you can do CC only you can probably get by with just the 856.73750 CC. They used to rotate CC freqs. in the past but I haven't noticed it changing from that one in a very long time.

B. Note site 002 is not so much rebanded in the sense that they moved any freqs into the "new" 851-854public safety band. All they did on that license was vacate the half dozen or so freqs. Southern Linc/Nextel asked them too and replaced them with the same amount of new freqs. in the 854-862 band.

That's the status of things at the moment. Who knows when things will change again.

[milf]

Expect an change again within three months as the new site is built and brought online.. At least thats the scuttlebutt....

[Humble_Mustang]

Something is still WRONG!

I am getting a lot of traffic from George County with outside antenna connected. Little or no traffic from Jackson County Trunk.

I get limited JC trunk traffic on the Control Channel and talk group, but More JC traffic comes in on the individual channels. Both group 1 and Moss Point

I can receive a lot more of the JC traffic if I disconnect the outside antenna and connect the whip antenna that came with the scanner.

I am at wits end

eddie

[KE5TLF]

If it's working on a whip and not on the outside antenna then I think I'd be looking for a coax and/or connector problem then. 800 MHz is good for revealing antenna/coax/connector problems that VHF won't bat an eye at.

[Humble_Mustang]

Thanks, I will replace cable and connectors this weekend and see if that helps

Thanks again
eddie