I bought several brand new Whistler WS1065 model desktop scanners and have them setup with an outdoor pole mounted antenna (that can be used for 25MHz to 3GHz or something similar, I've had the antenna for about 5 years I don't remember the specifics of it anymore), and I'm trying to receive the digital trunking channels for the Central New York Interoperable Communications Consortium (CNYICC). I can hear the Talk Around Channels (TAC's) at certain points with moderate to high success. But the Onondaga County Fire Control and EMS, Oswego County Fire/EMS Control can't be received on any of them and I'm not sure why. The scanners are all setup within 5 miles of the Cicero NY tower which I know is one of the core towers used for the new Phase II radio system so it really shouldn't be that hard to pick up a signal. I'm wondering if I'm too close to it? Or could something else be going on.
I can receive the analog channels, frequencies of all of these, including KSYR (Hancock Int'l Airport), and pretty much any other analog frequency I plug into it, but anything that's part of the Central New York Interoperable Communications Consortium (CNYICC) has reception problems. I've even tried lowering my squelch to see if maybe it's being filtered out by the squelch and that's not it either. What's even more peculiar is that it appears only to be that trunking system because I can add the others in the area, and receive them with no issues. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I'd rather use these on the digital channels as not to hear the tones but if that's my only option I guess I'll have to stick with that.
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Adding this later, I don't believe this is an encryption issue because they will come through intermittently, but not all the time as they should.
I can receive the analog channels, frequencies of all of these, including KSYR (Hancock Int'l Airport), and pretty much any other analog frequency I plug into it, but anything that's part of the Central New York Interoperable Communications Consortium (CNYICC) has reception problems. I've even tried lowering my squelch to see if maybe it's being filtered out by the squelch and that's not it either. What's even more peculiar is that it appears only to be that trunking system because I can add the others in the area, and receive them with no issues. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I'd rather use these on the digital channels as not to hear the tones but if that's my only option I guess I'll have to stick with that.
** Edit: **
Adding this later, I don't believe this is an encryption issue because they will come through intermittently, but not all the time as they should.
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