Ohio MARCS with BC346XT

[ranbrenjam]

Hello,

Before I begin let me apologize for my lack of knowledge.

I recently received a Uniden BC346XT
This is the product page: BC346XT - The RadioReference Wiki

After a while of learning how trunking works. I was able to enter in both the City of Dayton and Montgomery County Trunks into the scanner successfully getting radio chatter.

I look and see that I can listen to the OSP too which I thought that was pretty cool.

So I try to program in the MARCS system just as I did Dayton and Montgomery County's systems.

However whenever it picks up a talk group, all I hear is (I think) the data channel.

I live in Dayton so I saw the frequencies and entered them (without the letters obviously, just coped those from the site) :

866.15000
866.93750
867.32500a
868.32500a
868.60000c

I see my radio pick up specific talkgroups but all I hear is that stupid "buzzsaw" noise.

I have tried switching the band plan from 800 / 900 Standard to 800 Splinter but there was no change.

Now I looked on RadioReference's product page for my scanner (listed above) and it supports the Motorola Type II Smartzone Omnilink

Can anyone tell me what I might have done wrong or if my scanner can even pick up MARCS?

Once again I apologize for being a complete amateur but I am confused on why it wont work.

Thank you for your time.

 

[kf8yk]

The 346XT is an analog only radio, no good for MARCS.

Check the Wiki for digital capable scanner models if you wish to scan MARCS.

 

[ranbrenjam]

Ah dang I had a feeling.

Thanks so much!