pro 164 help

[cditty20]

im sorry if this was posted before i dont have a lot of time and i want to get this working asap for my truck. i have a radioshack pro 164 scanner and i want to know how to program the illinois state police into it. i know its a trunked system and i thought i programmed it but i dont think i did it right. i want to hear district 17 which is lasalle i have the three frequencies but i dont know how to do it the right way. also i know the Lasalle county sheriffs departmart is on a trunked system can i program that into my scanner too? instructions would be good thanks cody

 

[n5ims]

Unless you're very close to the trooper, you won't hear the two "Vehicular Repeater/Mobile Extender" channels, they're very low power. 155.46000 should be a standard conventional channel, but since it's for back-up use there may not be much on it most of the time. Most of the ISP is on the State's Starcom21 system which is a P-25 digital system and would require a digital capable scanner (like the Pro-106) to receive. Many talkgroups are encrypted and even the digital scanner won't let you hear them when encryption is used.

You may try checking in the Illinois forum to see if others that are local can let you know what to expect as well.

 

[gewecke]

im sorry if this was posted before i dont have a lot of time and i want to get this working asap for my truck. i have a radioshack pro 164 scanner and i want to know how to program the illinois state police into it. i know its a trunked system and i thought i programmed it but i dont think i did it right. i want to hear district 17 which is lasalle i have the three frequencies but i dont know how to do it the right way. also i know the Lasalle county sheriffs departmart is on a trunked system can i program that into my scanner too? instructions would be good thanks cody

You have the WRONG scanner to do this. You need a pro-106 or a pro-197
n9zas

 

[jamesa53]

if you are not dealing with 700MHZ control channels a 96/2096 would do it also.

 

[TrenchFeeder]

Unless you're very close to the trooper, you won't hear the two "Vehicular Repeater/Mobile Extender" channels, they're very low power. 155.46000 should be a standard conventional channel, but since it's for back-up use there may not be much on it most of the time. Most of the ISP is on the State's Starcom21 system which is a P-25 digital system and would require a digital capable scanner (like the Pro-106) to receive. Many talkgroups are encrypted and even the digital scanner won't let you hear them when encryption is used.

You may try checking in the Illinois forum to see if others that are local can let you know what to expect as well.

Why are they not listed on the ENC agencies list?

 

[N8IAA]

Unless you're very close to the trooper, you won't hear the two "Vehicular Repeater/Mobile Extender" channels, they're very low power. 155.46000 should be a standard conventional channel, but since it's for back-up use there may not be much on it most of the time. Most of the ISP is on the State's Starcom21 system which is a P-25 digital system and would require a digital capable scanner (like the Pro-106) to receive. Many talkgroups are encrypted and even the digital scanner won't let you hear them when encryption is used.

You may try checking in the Illinois forum to see if others that are local can let you know what to expect as well.

I second this. You will need a scanner that decodes digital, P-25 signals to hear the ISP in Lasalle. Your present scanner will hear the 760MHz frequencies only if the state patrol car is close to you.
Larry