Need Advice on Programming :Centre County Trunking

N3HBJ · Oct 27, 2017

I'm new to digital scanning/trunking and am looking for some programming advice on the Centre County (Pennsylvania) Public Safety system. I am troubleshooting a WS1065 with Win500 and have been able to upload both the Conventional and Trunked frequencies that I want to monitor. The conventional analog frequencies work just fine for both Clearfield and Centre counties. The problem is that I can't seem to find the correct settings in Win500 to receive any Trunked signals. I should be close enough to have the scanner lock on to a carrier or, at least, hear some static. I have tried about every option in Win500 fo TSYS objects with no success. What am I doing wrong?

marksmith · Oct 28, 2017

N3HBJ said:
I'm new to digital scanning/trunking and am looking for some programming advice on the Centre County (Pennsylvania) Public Safety system. I am troubleshooting a WS1065 with Win500 and have been able to upload both the Conventional and Trunked frequencies that I want to monitor. The conventional analog frequencies work just fine for both Clearfield and Centre counties. The problem is that I can't seem to find the correct settings in Win500 to receive any Trunked signals. I should be close enough to have the scanner lock on to a carrier or, at least, hear some static. I have tried about every option in Win500 fo TSYS objects with no success. What am I doing wrong?

What are you considering to be "close enough"?

Mark
536/436/ws1095/996p2/996xt/325p2/396xt/psr800/396t/HP-1/HP-2 & others

marksmith · Oct 28, 2017

marksmith said:
What are you considering to be "close enough"?

Mark
536/436/ws1095/996p2/996xt/325p2/396xt/psr800/396t/HP-1/HP-2 & others

P25 systems are highly directional within their jurisdiction. If you are not in Centre County, I would not make the assumption that you are "close enough".

If you are in State College or Bellefonte you should not have any issues, other than potential simulcast distortion, as I believe it is a simulcast system.

If you program the control channels as conventional and don't hear a very strong trunked channel data noise, you are too far away. This would likely be the case if you are not in Centre County.

Mark
536/436/ws1095/996p2/996xt/325p2/396xt/psr800/396t/HP-1/HP-2 & others

oldeschoolff · Oct 28, 2017

Centre County

Your callsign puts you in the phiipsburg area. The system signal is rock solid

oldeschoolff · Oct 28, 2017

Centre TRS

Make sure your using the control channers for the inner ring and not the outer

n3obl · Oct 30, 2017

That system suffers from simulcast distortion so even though you have a signal your scanner might be overloaded with the multiple transmitters at same time.

N3HBJ · Oct 30, 2017

Thanks, much, oldeschoolff! I suspected that I was in a good signal area, but wasn't able to get the programming software to cooperate. I believe I was overthinking the problem. Anyway, I have it working now. Thanks again...

N3HBJ · Oct 30, 2017

Thanks, OM. There may be multicast issues with the system, but the problem was actually my error in software configuration. All is well now. Thanks...

oldeschoolff · Oct 31, 2017

My pleasure !!

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