Need Help uniden Home 2 patrol (chicago area)

[Spanky60643]

Hello I'm New to the scanner world ! I live on the Southside of Chicago in the Beverly community! I recently purchased a Uniden Homepatrol 2 ,To monitor Emergency services near me and im unable to hear anything, Do I need to buy additional equipment better antennas ,,Am I able to hear local police ,fire, Ems ,state police ,surrounding suburbs etc ...what do I need to do ? All help is welcomed...

 

[rf_patriot200]

Hello I'm New to the scanner world ! I live on the Southside of Chicago in the Beverly community! I recently purchased a Uniden Homepatrol 2 ,To monitor Emergency services near me and im unable to hear anything, Do I need to buy additional equipment better antennas ,,Am I able to hear local police ,fire, Ems ,state police ,surrounding suburbs etc ...what do I need to do ? All help is welcomed...

Did you enter your zip code, so that portion of the database in your Home Patrol can be enabled ?

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Am I able to hear local police ,fire, Ems ,state police ,surrounding suburbs etc ...what do I need to do ? All help is welcomed...

Welcome to the RR forums. Chicago PD are fully encrypted and cannot be monitored as denoted by mode "P25E" in the database


Regarding law enforcement in the suburbs, etc. Consult the database & it will tell you who operates where. Focus on the "Mode" column. Any time you see an uppercase "E" (as in DE, TE, P25E, etc) this denotes full encryption meaning the frequency or talkgroup cannot be monitored.

Additionally the HomePatrol-2 and most supported scanners (aside from the Uniden SDS100 & SDS200) are prone to simulcast distortion which you'll likely face when monitoring Cook South - Simulcast or the Chicago Citywide Simulcast on STARCOM depending on your location relative to two or more simulcast cells. Feel free to click the text "simulcast distortion" above for multipath mitigation methods if you do indeed encounter this but ultimately you'd be much better off with the aforementioned SDS models to bring in traffic on simulcast systems

 

[phask]

1st question. Have you updated the database since you got it? It's probably several years old out of the box.

 

[rf_patriot200]

Welcome to the RR forums. Chicago PD are fully encrypted and cannot be monitored as denoted by mode "P25E" in the database
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Regarding law enforcement in the suburbs, etc. Consult the database & it will tell you who operates where. Focus on the "Mode" column. Any time you see an uppercase "E" (as in DE, TE, P25E, etc) this denotes full encryption meaning the frequency or talkgroup cannot be monitored.

Additionally the HomePatrol-2 and most supported scanners (aside from the Uniden SDS100 & SDS200) are prone to simulcast distortion which you'll likely face when monitoring Cook South - Simulcast or the Chicago Citywide Simulcast on STARCOM depending on your location relative to two or more simulcast cells. Feel free to click the text "simulcast distortion" above for multipath mitigation methods if you do indeed encounter this but ultimately you'd be much better off with the aforementioned SDS models to bring in traffic on simulcast systems

The CPD Citywide channels on 460 mhz. are in the clear, at least for now.

 

[INDaviation]

The CPD Zones are streaming with a delay on Broadcastify. You can listen to them there.

 

[Tomcu96]

something I recommend is to use the radio scanner. Use it on the home patrol sental program because there are a whole lot of good radio scanners that help with radio reference programs or the radio plus the Chicago radio scanner system is usually busy

 

[kbk777]

Hi, if you are primarily listening to P25 I/II systems, the Home Patrol 2 scanner does not work well here to simulcast distortion issues. I suggest using the SDS100 for this region.