Baytown, TX Trunking

[Rawburt]

I am trying to setup my 20-433 for the Texas Wide Area Radio Network (TxWARN) Motorola for Baytown. I put in 866.10000 and then setup all of my talk groups, but all I hear are like data bursts. Not sure what to do.

Thanks in advanced.

 

[OsloViking1975]

Don't forget some agencies rotate control channels. Maybe program the other one in.

This is from the manual.
For trunked reception, set the squelch at the center position. If set
too high, it could prevent your scanner from locking on the control
channel reliably. If it is set too low, it can delay fi nding the control
channel. The best setting is critical for monitoring trunked systems




You can try this group.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PRO-433_scanners/

 

[texasemt13]

The Pro-433 might need all the site channels programmed in, rather than just the control channel. Do you have all 12 frequencies programmed in, in order, or just the highlighted one (866.100)? They might have even changed their control channel to another frequency.

When you scroll through the frequencies manually, one should have a constant data sound to it (the control channel). All the others should be silent until a voice channel rolls through them and you get a snippet of voice, then the conversation switches to another frequency. Can you hear voice on any of these frequencies if you pause on them for awhile?

This is the correct place to ask, we can help you figure it out. Welcome to RR.

 

[Rawburt]

Viking- I only have the 866.1000 programmed in. I will have to take a look at the group.

Texas- Like I told Viking I only have the first one programmed in. I will program all 12 and see if that helps. I hear data on the 866.1000. I can here parts of conversations when I scroll through them.

Do I need to have the "Trunk" setting on for all twelve frequencies? or just the control?

When I put on the search function it finds other TGIDS, nothing on the ones I put in.

Obviously I'm a newbie.

Thanks for all the help.

 

[OsloViking1975]

Viking- I only have the 866.1000 programmed in. I will have to take a look at the group.

Texas- Like I told Viking I only have the first one programmed in. I will program all 12 and see if that helps. I hear data on the 866.1000. I can here parts of conversations when I scroll through them.

Do I need to have the "Trunk" setting on for all twelve frequencies? or just the control?


When I put on the search function it finds other TGIDS, nothing on the ones I put in.

Obviously I'm a newbie.


Thanks for all the help.

This is what I found in the manual: Try it and see what happens

Some systems use status bits to identify special situations. For
Motorola Type II systems, the last four bits of a talk group ID are the
status bits. Your scanner is preset to ignore status bits, but you can
set the scanner to interpret status bits.
To set the status bit ignore feature, complete the following steps:
1. Set the scanner to conventional programming mode and then
press TRUNK.
2. Select the bank.
3. Press or to select the system type (Motorola), then press
E/PGM.
4. Press or to select S-bit, then press E/PGM.
5. Press or to select ON or OFF, then press E/PGM.

Turn it to on and see what happens. If it's on already then I'm not sure where to go next.

 

[Rawburt]

Alright I enabled the S bit to no avail. Should I add all the TXWARN sites or just the Baytown ones? Right now I am just trying different combination's of settings.

Hopefully something will work.


Edit: Is the control channel setting anything I should be looking at?

 

[Rawburt]

Alright guys. I GOT IT!!

Finally.

I really appreciate all the help.

 

[OsloViking1975]

Alright guys. I GOT IT!!

Finally.

I really appreciate all the help.

Glad to hear that. Now you can enjoy.

So what did you end up doing to get it to work for you?

 

[Rawburt]

I had to enable the S-Bit (Thanks Viking) and there was an End Tone setting in the programming software that I enabled, plus programming all 12 channels (Thanks Texas).

Again thanks for all the help.

 

[OsloViking1975]

BrainStorming works most of the time. It's good to see all the ideas come together and work as well oiled machine.

 

[triumphan]

all controll freqs.

Add 868.05000 and see what happens. If that doesn't work add all frequencies. 866.1000 is probably a data channel.

 

[motorola_otaku]

The Baytown tower uses 866.1 most of the time. 868.05 is the alternate CC.
It does go down from time to time and when it does Baytown city users will manually switch over to the Huffman tower, which uses 868.95 and 868.0375 for control channels.

None of Baytown's public safety talkgroups use status bits so you shouldn't need that enabled. "End tone" refers to a code sent out at the end of each voice transmission to close the receiving radio's squelch automatically. That should be enabled by default but if it isn't then squelch would be controlled manually via the knob.

 

[RodStrong]

Are you guys ever gonna reband down there?

 

[motorola_otaku]

Are you guys ever gonna reband down there?

4Q2012 is the latest word on the street, but really it's anyone's guess.

 

[jsjolly]

Where can I find Freq and Input information for Harris County Constables Pct 1-8....Thanks