What I'm I doing wrong. SDS200 programed for MPS trunking NEXEDGE PER RR. scanner freqs verified in scanner. No Reception on MPS. Verified Data is correct on scanner. Also verified activity on SDR group 261. What am i missing?
MPS Mercer County
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The part where the only documented users of this system were kicked off several years ago and are now on the NJICS P25 system. You won't be able to hear anything on the system if there's nothing on it to hear. I don't know why the documented talkgroups haven't been marked as deprecated, but they should have been quite some time ago.
Weird, Dont understand why talk groups are showing activity right now
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Are those talkgroups listed in the database?
Someone always asks on threads like these: "You do have the NXDN paid upgrade, correct?"
Turn on the service types for the talkgroups you're looking to bring in ("tag' column in RRDB).
Turn on the service types for the talkgroups you're looking to bring in ("tag' column in RRDB).
Fairly certain only police and fire made the migration to NJICS but I could be wrong. Assuming housing authority and city services are still on NXDN then the OP will need to turn on the Public Works service type.
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Are the Channel ID's entered for each frequency?
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They migrated as well. MPS literally kicked the entire city off the system for non-payment. Services are either on Mercer County or NJICS. I'm pretty sure its NJICS. I've seen some activity from them but didn't pay them much mind.
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I see talkgroups for Trenton PD and Fire on NJICS, but no services. There are service talkgroups on the Mercer County trunked system:
Trenton
| DEC | HEX | Mode | Alpha Tag | Description | Tag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 348 | 15c | DE | Trenton PD | Police | Law Tac |
| 349 | 15d | D | Trenton FD SpOps | Fire Special Ops | Fire-Tac |
| 518 | 206 | D | Trenton FD 1 | Fire 1 | Fire Dispatch |
| 520 | 208 | D | Trenton FD 2 | Fire 2 | Fire-Tac |
| 522 | 20a | D | Trenton FD 3 | Fire 3 | Fire-Tac |
| 524 | 20c | D | Trenton FD 4 | Fire 4 | Fire-Tac |
| 526 | 20e | D | Trenton FD 5 | Fire 5 | Fire-Tac |
| 528 | 210 | D | Trenton FD 6 | Fire 6 | Fire-Tac |
| 530 | 212 | D | Trenton FD Train | Fire Training Channel | Fire-Talk |
| 536 | 218 | D | Trenton Health | Health Department | Public Works |
| 544 | 220 | D | Trenton Parks | Trenton Park Rangers | Public Works |
| 546 | 222 | D | Trenton Property | Public Property | Public Works |
| 548 | 224 | D | Trenton Pools | Pools | Public Works |
| 550 | 226 | D | Trenton Waste | Solid Waste | Public Works |
| 552 | 228 | D | Trenton Sewer | Sewer Department | Public Works |
| 554 | 22a | D | Trenton Streets | Street Department | Public Works |
| 556 | 22c | D | Trenton Water | Water Maintenance/Meter shop | Public Works |
| 558 | 22e | D | Trenton CityHall | City Hall Security | Security |
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Then I stand corrected. Services moved to Mercer County.
yes they are in both Mercer and MPS system tbles.
Here's what I'm seeing on MPS this morning. There are active talk groups and show timed responses. None of these are showing active on the Mercer County Truck system. Yes, my SDS unit has NEXEDGE upgrade. I'm confused, anyone else want to give it a try? Thanks for all the responses so far.
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As I stated in post #5 you'll need to turn on the applicable service types to hear traffic from those talkgroups on the SDS200, reference "tag" column in the database. TG-40 isn't ID'ed in the RRDB so you'll also have to turn on ID Search to pass traffic from Un-ID'ed talkgroups. If you can nail down TG-40's purpose, submit an update
I DO have the scanner on Search ID. Service type is set to Public Works.
No idea why you can't pick them up then. How many bars of signal are you getting from the control channel on the SDS200? Might be worth zipping up your Sentinel .hpe export and posting it as an attachment here so someone can have a look at your programming
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Your squelch is set to zero. Set it up to 2. Any difference?
Squelch no difference. I'm going to try my other radios with the site
REacts the same on all 3 sds200's. Something we are missing. Digging deeper!
Did you import the system from the RRDB using software, or did you hand program it? Make sure the LCN's are correct for each site frequency, otherwise the scanner won't know what frequency to tune to for voice traffic.
