Is Elgin Fire OPS1 now encrypted?

[jrroy1984]

I have set up the Elgin Fire channels, and they all appear to be set up properly. However, when audio comes through, it sound like somebody is violating a robot. Have the Elgin County Fire DMR channels been encrypted recently? It does not show encrypted in the frequency listing at Elgin County, Ontario (ON) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

 

[Forts]

Not that I'm aware of... heard them yesterday. What type of scanner are you using?

 

[jrroy1984]

Sorry, I should have provided a bit more info. I'm using a handheld Baofeng DM-1701. It's a handheld I leave on my desk or take with me. I have created a Digital Contact called OPS with ID 100. It is part of my Elgin Fire Group List. Colour Code 10, Repeater Slot 1. RX-Only, so I don't screw up and piss people off. I reloaded the radio, maybe a setting got corrupted on load?

 

[Forts]

No, corruption really isn't something you see, If you are getting audio of some sort then your settings are most likely correct. Whats your location? Are you in Elgin county? I find outside of the county reception gets very spotty pretty quickly.

 

[Jammin_Jay]

Try reloading the code plug. Other then that you might require a firmware update for that radio.

 

[jrroy1984]

Thanks for the ideas, guys. I'm located in Dutton, so should be clear. The old VHF and UHF dispatch channels work fine. I won't have time now until next week likely. But, I'll play around with firmware versions, then reload my code plug and see if I can make any progress.

 

[Forts]

I can take a look at your codeplug too if you like. You shouldn't have any issues with RX in Dutton... so something funky going on!

 

[jrroy1984]

It appears something was corrupted on that radio. I started over with a fresh code plug, and put all of the same settings in from scratch. Reloading the old plug didn't fix the issue, but starting from scratch with a freshblank .rdt file seems to have done the trick. Thanks for all the help and ideas everybody.