Sorry if I posted wrong. Thanks and no offence taken .. I bit off more than I can chew at this point but I'll get it figured out with some help from you guys. I much appreciate any info I can receive .. I've been reading and re reading the manual and I am getting better of understanding. I guess I figured like in the older scanners that you just input what you wanted to listen too and away you go. I guess their are a lot of changes I miss not keeping up to date with it Thank you all. It was $600 .
There is no offense taken and I was not trying to be rude. What I did not like was that the people who were responding to you where just adding to the confusion. And I can't do anything about it but there are plenty of people who are members of this site who could help you but choose not to or couldn't be bothered. There is nothing I can do about that but I can comment when people post ridiculous stuff about encryption or don't understand, more than 15 years in, and closer to the end of the lifespan of this radio system, how fleetnet works.
Because Trunking is difficult, the scanner makers have built scanners that make it easier to allow us to listen to what we can. This site here is the most important scanning site in the world, it is with this site's growth that you have a scanner with a built in database and the ability to update add or delete right on your scanner.
And anyone who knows me, knows that I am extremely illiterate when it comes to understanding how this all works, and I ask plenty of questions that are considered to be dumb, I have over 3,000 posts here, go look at my history and laugh at some of the stuff I have asked for here. But I do and always appreciated help that I received here and I want to play it forward. And I want to help make it clearer to people to get help and not confuse them.
Your scanner has this databaser for Fleetnet, simply go to the database, on the software or right on your scanner, select Ontario, and any county in the immediate area for Fleetnet, from SDG, Ottawa all the way to Northumberland, Fleetnet Zone 2. Select Fleetnet, either select all the towers in Zone 2 or take a look at the list of towers in the Database on here first and select those. I live in Burlington and since I don't plan on going to Durham in Grey County as a newbie I would select the towers close to me, Charlton, Brittania, Fonthill, Skylon, Woodlawn, Brantford, Cayuga.
And I select the talkgroups that I would expect that I would expect that would 'work' with these towers. Just as you will not hear a radio station in Windsor on FM it doesnt make sense for me to select their tower or the talkgroups for that area. Pick the tower(s) that you feel are close enough to you, pick out the EMS talkgroups for the local CACC's (communication centres), pick the MOH Wide talkgroups, as you will hear EMS units from different jurisdictions in and out of Ottawa, they will use these MOH Wide talkgroups.
Pick all or just about all of the OPP Talkgroups in your zone. Many of them patch with each other, enter in and select the MNR ones for your area and throught your zones, the same with the MTO Enforcement talkgroups as they are patched at times with local OPP talkgroups especially in the evenings and weekends.
And finally you should be able to select the CISO and Investigative talkgroups. PM me why and I will be happy to explain why.
As you get a feel for your scanner and what you are hearing, what you will hear at home or thru travels you will quickly pick up how this works and you can create very elaborate and interesting scan lists. And play it forward like I try to.
