Thanks for the replies. I am trying to program the Pitt County, NC 700 MHz system.
Pitt County Trunking System, Greenville, North Carolina. Attached is the hpd file.
There are a numbers of errors in your file.
First System:
All of the talkgroups under the
Pitt/Fire Department are "Avoided" (locked out), as indicated by their
red color.
Also, those talkgroups in that Department, Pitt/Fire Department, are
not in Viper at all. Instead, they are used on the
PItt County Trunking System.
The talkgroups listed under Pitt County, such as PCC PD, TGID 37502,
are used on Viper, associated with Viper site Greenville:
However, you have all of these listed under Service Type Custom 1. That type is enabled by default, when the scanner is shipped, and when Sentinel is first installed, but they are in the database under their correct service types, such as Law Dispatch, Law Tach, Fire Dispatch, etc. You did not use a couple of the listed talkgroups, but I have imported all of them, under their existing service types. Verify, in your Sentinel profile, that in addition to the Dispatch public safety call types, you also have
Tac &
Talk service types enabled; i.e.
Law-Tac,
Law-Talk,
Fire-Tac, etc.
I have included the NCSHP Troop A department as well, which is associated with the same Viper site. The site was imported with all of the site frequencies. While you only need the control channels frequencies, I have included all, just in case, at some point, a different frequency is used as the control.
For the
Pitt County system, I have imported it's site, as well as the TGIDs associated with it.
Note that the site for that system is simulcast, which can cause problems for scanners other than Uniden's SDS series. Whether you actually do, or do not, have problems monitoring the system is extremely location related. If you are in an area where you are only getting the signal from one of the site towers, or close enough to a site so that it's string signal washes out conflicting data from other sites, you might have no trouble at all. Or, if in the 'wrong' place, you may get nothing at all, or everything so garbled that nothing is understandable. Read more about Simulcast Distortion, and what steps you might be able to take to counteract issues in this Wiki article:
Simulcast digital distortion - The RadioReference Wiki
There are a handful of conventional frequencies listed for Pitt County. I have included those in the attached file as well. This is an *.hpe file, which you can import into Sentinel. ProScan can also import that specific file type. As I don't have the ARC software, I do not know if you can open the file with ARC536, or if you need to import into Sentinel first.
Note that the system type, P25 Trunk, is used for both P25 Phase I as well as P25 Phase II. The scanner will use the correct process for either talkgroup type. Some systems, though listed in the database, are listed as P25 Phase II, actually have both Phase I as well as Phase II talkgroups in the system. The scanner handles these correctly, as long as the system is programmed as P25 Trunk.
