I am monitoring Harrisonburg-Rockingham County Public Safety Trunking System, Harrisonburg, Virginia - Scanner Frequencies with a bcd436hp (which does a fantastic job on the system). I am finding when dispatches are made across multiple TG's there is a single TG used that (at least in my mind) transmits the voice information to all of the TG's involved.
Example: A fire/rescue call is dispatched on Tac 1 (County fire & rescue) and HFD 1 (City Fire), and Tac 8 is assigned as the operational channel. After the units respond on Tac 8, the ECC will broadcast call information on all three TG's. However, I am only hearing the call information in "ID Search mode"- and on a different TG. So far I am estimating I have found around 30 "new" TG's calls are broadcast on. Another example would be a law enforcement BOLO on the City PD and County Sheriff TG. When they are broadcast together, a separate TG displays.
I understand this is done to cut down the use of frequencies in the system. When a system has 11 frequencies, 2, 3 or even as many as 4 frequencies do not need to be tied up with the same voice traffic on multiple TG's. I asked some familiar with this system about the multiple TG's and was told they were "Dynamic TG's". My question is, is there a way for the bcdx36hp scanners to receive these TG's without the ID Search mode, or programming in each one, individually? It would be great if Uniden has a feature I am missing that would allow voice traffic designated for the TG's monitored to show up in this mode.
On a side note, I was a system user but am no longer active. I was often frustrated when using a radio on the system in the scan mode. If a call was broadcast on Tac 1, and your radio was selected to Tac 2 (or any channel other than Tac 1), you would only hear the pre alert tone and station tones... no voice. So this is obviously not a Uniden problem... just wondering if Uniden had a solution to dealing with the "dynamic TG's", multi-broadcasting- or whatever the correct term is.
Example: A fire/rescue call is dispatched on Tac 1 (County fire & rescue) and HFD 1 (City Fire), and Tac 8 is assigned as the operational channel. After the units respond on Tac 8, the ECC will broadcast call information on all three TG's. However, I am only hearing the call information in "ID Search mode"- and on a different TG. So far I am estimating I have found around 30 "new" TG's calls are broadcast on. Another example would be a law enforcement BOLO on the City PD and County Sheriff TG. When they are broadcast together, a separate TG displays.
I understand this is done to cut down the use of frequencies in the system. When a system has 11 frequencies, 2, 3 or even as many as 4 frequencies do not need to be tied up with the same voice traffic on multiple TG's. I asked some familiar with this system about the multiple TG's and was told they were "Dynamic TG's". My question is, is there a way for the bcdx36hp scanners to receive these TG's without the ID Search mode, or programming in each one, individually? It would be great if Uniden has a feature I am missing that would allow voice traffic designated for the TG's monitored to show up in this mode.
On a side note, I was a system user but am no longer active. I was often frustrated when using a radio on the system in the scan mode. If a call was broadcast on Tac 1, and your radio was selected to Tac 2 (or any channel other than Tac 1), you would only hear the pre alert tone and station tones... no voice. So this is obviously not a Uniden problem... just wondering if Uniden had a solution to dealing with the "dynamic TG's", multi-broadcasting- or whatever the correct term is.