CSP Troop 6D / 6B

[seberry]

I just recently started listening to the CSP... more of an experiment with how far I could hear a traffic stop from my house.
While scanning, I heard someone get stopped in Silverthorne (clearly in the 6B territory). I didn't catch the unit identifier, but the stop was definitely called in on CSP TROOP 6D. Am I going insane or do they consolidate channels with little traffic? What talk-group do I need to listen to to hear troop 6b?

 

[jimmnn]

I just recently started listening to the CSP... more of an experiment with how far I could hear a traffic stop from my house.
While scanning, I heard someone get stopped in Silverthorne (clearly in the 6B territory). I didn't catch the unit identifier, but the stop was definitely called in on CSP TROOP 6D. Am I going insane or do they consolidate channels with little traffic? What talk-group do I need to listen to to hear troop 6b?

They routinely have at least 2 or 3 of the slower troops patched into the Lakewood dispatch center and in the middle of the night that number rises.

Easy to track and watch real time using the patches tab of pro96com.

Jim<

 

[soundchaser]

Am I going insane or do they consolidate channels with little traffic? What talk-group do I need to listen to to hear troop 6b?

I noticed in your sig line that you have a 396/996XT. I should warn you that it doesn't follow P25 digital patches correctly. I've contacted Uniden a number of times to get them to fix this, and all I get is "we don't know when it will be fixed." Which means probably never.

For example, if you have the CSP 6A TG locked out (or not programmed to be scanned) and you're listening to 6B, if they patch 6B into 6A, you will stop hearing any 6B traffic.

This happens a lot in Boulder County where the only CSP TG I want to listen to is 6C. It often gets patched into another TG and suddenly all of the radio traffic disappears. Then I have to unlock the other TGs to find where it went, or fire up pro96Com and have it tell me where they went. What's worse is that sometimes the patch is only in effect long enough for the dispatcher to take a bathroom break, then it gets switched back or somewhere else.

 

[seberry]

Yes, I'm actually using a pro 197 at home as my base but that's good to know, thanks. And thanks jim for the pro96com trick.

 

[mpg0515]

Yes, I'm actually using a pro 197 at home as my base but that's good to know, thanks. And thanks jim for the pro96com trick.

Seberry, not sure if they ever came out with an update for the Pro-197( maybe someone else can chime in), I dont really follow those as I have a PSR-500.... But the last one for the PSR-5/600 allows you to follow the patches. I have just CSP 6A programmed and I never miss anything when just scanning TG 2381 full time. And also just for reference, Jim is right, I don't even remember the last time that 6A, 6B and 6D were NOT patched together.... In the late hours you can even add in 6C, 3B and 1D.

 

[mpg0515]

I watched the usual 6A, 6B and 6D get patched to 1C, 1A, 1D, 6C and 3B for about a minute and a half tonight on Pro96Com.... I can see what you mean by literally only a bathroom break

 

[04Z1V6]

Seberry, not sure if they ever came out with an update for the Pro-197( maybe someone else can chime in), I dont really follow those as I have a PSR-500.... But the last one for the PSR-5/600 allows you to follow the patches.

Yes, they did if you go to Here PRO-106 39,000-Channel Digital Handheld Scanner - RadioShack.com
Click on product support and the update is the March 24 2010 update.