New guy with a question

[ParkRanger248]

Hello! I'm a new member, but a long time viewer. I work for the Parks Dept and we recently had our portables upgraded to "digital". The issued portable is a Motorola XTS 2500, phasing out many older portables. However, I am unable to receive any transmissions on my personal scanner at home after the upgrade, and I was wondering why this is. Did they switch from VHF to UHF to be compatible with other agencies (which the city is in the process of doing)? Or did they keep the same frequency and change something else?


Thank you very much!

 

[KG4INW]

Is your scanner capable of picking up P25 digital signals? That's probably really what's changed (analog to digital) but they might have migrated to a different frequency. Analog scanners won't be able to hear digital signals as they are a completely different way of modulating a signal.

 

[ParkRanger248]

I doubt my scanner is capable of that. It's a Radio Shack job that cost about $100 4 years back. The reason they changed is to eliminate dead spots in the corners of the city. On my portable at work, there are more channels than listed on here. For instance, Staten Island enforcement channel no longer exists (since they could now be heard on the citywide freq. after the upgrade), but 3 new channels do, leading me to believe they may have switched frequencies all together.

 

[RadioCrazy]

They switched to the UHF band.