Onondaga County assistance

N2RGU

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Hi ya, just registered yesterday, and I'm using the Home Patrol II that I picked up. I imported the file into my favorites, made sure both the monitor and download were on. I am receiving signals via the antenna, but nothing is showing up and I'm not hearing anything. I think I'm missing a step somewhere. Onondaga County is using P25 Phase 2 so this scanner should be picking them up. Any suggestions would be great!
 

Whiskey3JMC

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Welcome to the RR forums. You're likely facing simulcast distortion depending on where you are in relation to two or more towers on the Onondaga Simulcast. Feel free to try the multipath mitigation steps in the wiki linked below but ultimately you'd be better off with a Uniden SDS100 or SDS200 to track simulcast systems.

 
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k2hz

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Simulcast will definitely be a major issue for that scanner. One thing to check in your programming is to only monitor the Onondaga site and not try to scan the entire CNYICC system.
 

scan1806

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Hi ya, just registered yesterday, and I'm using the Home Patrol II that I picked up. I imported the file into my favorites, made sure both the monitor and download were on. I am receiving signals via the antenna, but nothing is showing up and I'm not hearing anything. I think I'm missing a step somewhere. Onondaga County is using P25 Phase 2 so this scanner should be picking them up. Any suggestions would be great!
IM in bville and will be glad to help you out
 

scan1806

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onondaga cty,New York
Hi ya, just registered yesterday, and I'm using the Home Patrol II that I picked up. I imported the file into my favorites, made sure both the monitor and download were on. I am receiving signals via the antenna, but nothing is showing up and I'm not hearing anything. I think I'm missing a step somewhere. Onondaga County is using P25 Phase 2 so this scanner should be picking them up. Any suggestions would be great!
Im in bville and will help you out get back to me
 

tvengr

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Give this file a try. Save the attached zipped file to your computer and extract. Go the File tab in HomePatrol Sentinel and click on Import from hpe file. Click on New Favorites List and name it: Onondaga Co NY Click on OK. In the Downloads folder, open the extracted file. It will appear as a favorites list in Sentinel.
 

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N2RGU

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Give this file a try. Save the attached zipped file to your computer and extract. Go the File tab in HomePatrol Sentinel and click on Import from hpe file. Click on New Favorites List and name it: Onondaga Co NY Click on OK. In the Downloads folder, open the extracted file. It will appear as a favorites list in Sentinel.
Thank you! Will give it a go!
 
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