Help with Morehead, Ky TGID

[EastKy606]

I just purchased a BCD996P2 and I purchased the NXDN key because thats what my local pd uses. I'm located in Morehead, KY. I programmed them in a conventional system. I pick up some intermittent state police traffic but I miss a lot of it. Back to the police department, everything the scanner picks up is so choppy you can't make out a single word. I have a yagi antenna mounted on my roof about 30 ft off the ground. I don't know if I have it programmed correctly, I wanted to try to program it on a nxdn one freq trunk but I don't know the TGID nor where or how to find it.

 

[ofd8001]

If you look at this page: Rowan County, Kentucky (KY) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference you'll note that the main dispatch frequency for Rowan County is encrypted (E). So the only two "clear" frequencies are probably used occasionally.

Then looking at this page: FCC Callsign WQBQ394 (MOREHEAD, CITY OF) you'll see there are three sites associated with the PD frequencies. While I do not know for sure, I suspect they may be simulcast. That means all three sites are transmitting at the same time.

The 996 line of scanners are lousy at decoding these multiple "barrages" of transmissions. They are either garbled or choppy as you describe. You can check your manual to see if there are P25 level adjustments and do some experimenting to see which is the better setting. But don't expect perfection. A Yagi antenna is supposed to help, but not cure, the issue.

If it was me, I would NOT program this as a One Frequency Trunk system, even though you could. This is shown as a conventional system. I've done this with KSP frequencies and found there is little to gain and the cost is a delay in reception. I think the scanner needs a millisecond or two to get decoding.

 

[sonm10]

If it was me, I would NOT program this as a One Frequency Trunk system, even though you could. This is shown as a conventional system. I've done this with KSP frequencies and found there is little to gain and the cost is a delay in reception. I think the scanner needs a millisecond or two to get decoding.

This is bad advice. One frequency trunk is exactly the way to program. I suspect you want to turn on ID Search. It should be under system options. But if encrypted won't matter anyways.