Branford Police & Fire reception

[vzqb30a]

I’m in East Haven, (Foxon side),

Our next my town over, Branford Police & Fire, have always been a solid 4 bars excellent p25 reception in the clear on this side of town.
Just within the past 3-4 months it’s dropped down to 0-1 bars, which doesn’t work out at all.
This is on all three of my receivers which are all different.
Does anyone know of any changes going on with their system? TIA

 

[wtp]

many places are turning the antennas downward to help keep the signal closer and be ably to reuse frequencies.
i have no idea if this has happened there, but is a possibility.

 

[N1GTL]

I'll confirm the poorer signal strength. I'm in North Haven. I was receiving them here before but when I just checked, I could only RX on the second floor of my house with an APX. My SDS100 has been silent.

 

[vzqb30a]

I'll confirm the poorer signal strength. I'm in North Haven. I was receiving them here before but when I just checked, I could only RX on the second floor of my house with an APX. My SDS100 has been silent.

I guess that confirms something has changed. I know Northford has upgraded their system around the same time to CLMRN.
A new cell tower was also added. That, and two others fairly close to me may have been optimized to accommodate them and cause some interference?

I’m thinking maybe a Yagi pointed in the direction of branford may fix it for me. It just means a handheld in my home just won’t work anymore. 👍🏼

 

[domsca]

I used to be able to receive them just using the stock antenna on the handheld. I'm on the Wallingford/Northford line, not anymore and even with the outdoor antenna. The only thing I can think of is their antenna that's located on hilltop rd near the North Branford line is not working.

 

[vzqb30a]

It’s unfortunate. East haven and Branford share police & FD resources. I can pick Branford outside with a handheld, East Haven no problem. If I’m in my home, now Branford is unintelligible. Normally it’s full bars and crystal clear audio. I’m trying to determine if a directional UHF Yagi or just a standard base scanner antenna would work it out for me. If it’s some kind of interference, then it still may be an issue.
I’ll have to play around with it a bit and see what I come up with. 👍🏼