JOCO P25 System Not Working with 396XT

bhollingsworth said:

Up until a few days ago I was having no problems listening to operations in JOCO, from Merriam, Olathe, OP and other departments.

Now everything is silent. My 396XT gives me nothing on this system anymore, while weather and other conventional scanning works fine.

When scanning the Signal Strength bars in the top right of the scanner flash off and then full... am I missing something here? I have the 14 frequencies listed for JOCO still in the scanner. Could something have become corrupted? Should I nuke it with FreeScan and start a fresh load?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks,

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PVPD730 said:

All you really need to program is the 3 control channels:
774.73125 (this one is currently active)
853.775
853.9625

I'm picking up everything loud and clear from the South end of downtown using a 396XT.

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PVPD730 said:

All you really need to program is the 3 control channels:
774.73125 (this one is currently active)
853.775
853.9625

I'm picking up everything loud and clear from the South end of downtown using a 396XT.

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bhollingsworth said:

Good to know and thank you for the feedback. I will dump the rest of the frequencies and keep it simple.

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PVPD730 said:

All you really need to program is the 3 control channels:
774.73125 (this one is currently active)
853.775
853.9625

I'm picking up everything loud and clear from the South end of downtown using a 396XT.

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bhollingsworth said:

Does this mean what is listed here (Kansas City Metro - Metropolitan Area Regional Radio System (MARRS) Trunking System, Kansas City Metro Area, Multi-State - Scanner Frequencies) is not accurate anymore?

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linanbob said:

Unfortunately, you didn't really answer the question. I've noted exactly the same thing. JOCO working just fine until the last day or two. Tonight, nothing. Radio programming is untouched.

Was speculating the whole system was switched to encrypted due to Obama's visit, but that seems a stretch.

(Edit) Tried the three-freq program and did find the OPPD tg. Thanks for that tip. Still want to know what changed that caused previously working programming to simply stop.

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linanbob said:

Unfortunately, you didn't really answer the question. I've noted exactly the same thing. JOCO working just fine until the last day or two. Tonight, nothing. Radio programming is untouched.

Was speculating the whole system was switched to encrypted due to Obama's visit, but that seems a stretch.

(Edit) Tried the three-freq program and did find the OPPD tg. Thanks for that tip. Still want to know what changed that caused previously working programming to simply stop.

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PVPD730 said:

It's accurate for the most part, however the frequency lineup (specifically the control channels) for JOCO is a bit off. These are what I logged for that portion of the MARRS System with pro96com:
-Frequencies
#Format: Channel,Usage,Frequency(/Slot),Input Channel,Input Frequency(/Slot),Input Explicit(1/0),Hit Count
"00-0041","vd",851.26250,"00-0041",806.26250,0,3
"00-0085","vdi",851.53750,"00-0085",806.53750,0,1
"00-0291","vd",852.82500,"00-0291",807.82500,0,6
"00-0335","vd",853.10000,"00-0335",808.10000,0,2
"00-0375","vd",853.35000,"00-0375",808.35000,0,2
"00-0443","av",853.77500,"00-0443",808.77500,0,0-alternate control channel
"00-0473","ca",853.96250,"00-0473",808.96250,0,0-alternate control channel
"00-0953","vd",856.96250,"00-0953",811.96250,0,4
"00-1113","vd",857.96250,"00-1113",812.96250,0,2
"00-1273","vd",858.96250,"00-1273",813.96250,0,3
"00-1381","vd",859.63750,"00-1381",814.63750,0,8
"00-1433","vd",859.96250,"00-1433",814.96250,0,0
"01-1532","vd",771.58125,"01-1532",801.58125,0,4
"01-1652","vd",772.33125,"01-1652",802.33125,0,1
"01-1732","vd",772.83125,"01-1732",802.83125,0,8
"01-1832","vd",773.45625,"01-1832",803.45625,0,3
"01-1956","vd",774.23125,"01-1956",804.23125,0,1
"01-2036","c",774.73125,"01-2036",804.73125,0,0-current control channel

For KCMO:
-Frequencies
#Format: Channel,Usage,Frequency(/Slot),Input Channel,Input Frequency(/Slot),Input Explicit(1/0),Hit Count
"00-0007","a",851.05000,"00-0007",806.05000,0,0-alternate control channel
"00-0021","v",851.13750,"00-0021",806.13750,0,0
"00-0043","v",851.27500,"00-0043",806.27500,0,0
"00-0051","av",851.32500,"00-0051",806.32500,0,0-alternate control channel
"00-0077","i",851.48750,"00-0077",806.48750,0,0
"00-0095","ca",851.60000,"00-0095",806.60000,0,0-alternate control channel
"00-0131","vp",851.82500,"15-4095",0.00000,1,2
"00-0137","cv",851.86250,"00-0137",806.86250,0,0-current control channel
"00-0167","vp",852.05000,"00-0167",807.05000,0,2
"00-0170","v",852.06875,"00-0170",807.06875,0,0
"00-0171","vp",852.07500,"00-0171",807.07500,0,3
"00-0187","vp",852.17500,"00-0187",807.17500,0,0
"00-0195","vp",852.22500,"00-0195",807.22500,0,2
"00-0199","v",852.25000,"00-0199",807.25000,0,0
"00-0224","v",852.40625,"00-0224",807.40625,0,0
"00-0225","vp",852.41250,"15-4095",0.00000,1,2
"00-0229","vp",852.43750,"00-0229",807.43750,0,3
"00-0253","vp",852.58750,"00-0253",807.58750,0,1
"00-0265","vp",852.66250,"00-0265",807.66250,0,2
"00-0277","vp",852.73750,"00-0277",807.73750,0,2
"00-0299","vp",852.87500,"00-0299",807.87500,0,2
"00-0313","vp",852.96250,"00-0313",807.96250,0,2
"00-0317","vp",852.98750,"00-0317",807.98750,0,1
"00-0343","vp",853.15000,"00-0343",808.15000,0,2
"00-0357","vp",853.23750,"00-0357",808.23750,0,2
"00-0397","vp",853.48750,"00-0397",808.48750,0,2
"00-0437","vp",853.73750,"00-0437",808.73750,0,2

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wbigcount said:

Search with your scanner, set up a custom search from 851 to 860 with CC only mode, same thing for 700Mhz

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WA0CBW said:

You can enter ALL the frequencies and the scanner will search all of them until it finds the current control channel. The scanner can't tell a control channel from a voice channel until it hears it sending out control channel data.
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