Psr 600

[click65]

I have a GRE-PSR 600, programmed channels shows their there but cant pick up digital trunking frequiencies, or much of any thing. I live in Parker county, (texas) i can get Jack and Wise county and thats about it. Puzzeled

 

[hiegtx]

I have a GRE-PSR 600, programmed channels shows their there but cant pick up digital trunking frequiencies, or much of any thing. I live in Parker county, (texas) i can get Jack and Wise county and thats about it. Puzzeled

Welcome to the forums, click.

You should easily be able to pick up the Parker County P25 system. I can hear it when I'm visiting friends at their place near Breckenridge (Stephens County).

You should also be able to hear Texas DPS (P25, though not trunked), and depending on where in the county you are, and what sort of antenna, probably some of the trunked systems from Tarrant County. You should also get Palo Pinto & Hood County easily.

Are you programming the scanner manually, via the keyboard? Or, are you using software? If software, which program? Also, are you using just the antenna that came with the scanner? Or an external? Give us a few more details to go on.

 

[fmon]

Do you have Parker Type set as P25 Auto? Default is MOT 800/900.

 

[click65]

programmed it with ARC500 softwear, using antenna taht came with system, i dont know if i have parker county set as auto, im fairly new to this digital stuff. (technology gota luv it)

 

[click65]

cant i just manualy inter the frequincy?

 

[fmon]

programmed it with ARC500 softwear, using antenna taht came with system, i dont know if i have parker county set as auto, im fairly new to this digital stuff. (technology gota luv it)

I just imported using ARC. System Type set to Mot VHF/UHF which is incorrect. Normally Parker P25 should import as P25 Auto but the trunking tables in database is weird. 380 offset is a Motorola trunking scheme. ARC imports the trunking tables incorrectly also.
Top image is ARC incorrect import.
Bottom is corrected by me.

Click, first set double click Syustem Type and select P25 Manual.
Then double click under Edit T-Tables and make changes as in bottom image.

 

[hiegtx]

I just imported using ARC. System Type set to Mot VHF/UHF which is incorrect. Normally Parker P25 should import as P25 Auto but the trunking tables in database is weird. 380 offset is a Motorola trunking scheme. ARC imports the trunking tables incorrectly also.
Top image is ARC incorrect import.
Bottom is corrected by me.

Click, first set double click Syustem Type and select P25 Manual.
Then double click under Edit T-Tables and make changes as in bottom image.

click65
Actually, the Parker County (Texas) P25 system works very well, without entering any tables at all, in both my PSR-500 (the handheld version of your Psr-600), and the Uniden 396XT. I have it set (and have since it's beginning, several years ago) as P25 auto in both the PSR-500, as well as my 396XT. Both scanners receive the system quite well. (I took a day trip out west, visiting friends today.) I was still able to hear it (using better antennas, like the Diamond RH77CA) on both scanners out in southeastern Stephens County. My location was in the 40-45 mile range from the closest site (Cool, site 1-004), but the 396 was also getting some traffic from Weatherford & Annetta (sites 1-001 & 1-002), and are farther away. (The 500, I'm sure, was as well. But the 396 is set up "multi-site, with the individual sites named so that I can tell which one is being received more easily than trying to match up control channels.) The auto setting also worked in the older BCD396T, before I added the XT, & started carrying it with me instead.

The first screen shot is how the PSR-500 is programmed, without any table information.

The second image shows the table information, filled in by the scanner, while I was in range of the system.

The table information that Frank (fmon) has shown is the same as what the scanner will fill in by itself, if you use P25 Auto (for system type), and let the scanner receive the control channel. It certainly won't hurt to enter the tables, if you want.

It sounds like, as Frank has already mentioned (several posts back) that this may have been set up, incorrectly, as as the default MOT 800/900 when you first tried to enter it manually. Setting it as P25 auto, with the correct control channels, it will work. I listened to it most of the day today, once I got within range going west from Dallas, and until I lost signal coming back (about mid-Tarrant County). Several of the system frequencies are in the 152Mhz range, used by paging companies. So, I suspect that coverage into Tarrant County is restricted by antenna pattern.

 

[fmon]

Click, change system to P25 auto as in this image.

 

[click65]

thanks guys i will give it a try, and let u know my cabel is in our travel trailer in Bridgeport so might be a few days befor i get up there to get it. but shouldnt you be able to just manualy inter a frequincy on the scanner like 144.5225 and listen?

 

[hiegtx]

thanks guys i will give it a try, and let u know my cabel is in our travel trailer in Bridgeport so might be a few days befor i get up there to get it. but shouldnt you be able to just manualy inter a frequincy on the scanner like 144.5225 and listen?

click,
144.5225 is not an actual frequency used by the Parker County system. That's merely a 'frequency' used in the tables, that tells the scanner how to receive the system in question. The actual frequencies used are found in section listed with the header "System Frequencies". They are divided up by the various sites used by the system.

If you have not already, you might want to read Trunking Basics in the Wiki. That may help you better understand how the system works.

 

[click65]

All right guys i had to run to bridgeport and get my USB cable,made the changes and re-uploaded and i now receive parker county. Thanks alot for the help this was driving me nuts.

 

[fmon]

All right guys i had to run to bridgeport and get my USB cable,made the changes and re-uploaded and i now receive parker county. Thanks alot for the help this was driving me nuts.

That's certainly worth a trip to Bridgeport!! :lol:

 

[hiegtx]

What a deal!

Depending on exactly where you are in the county (Parker), and whether you are on a high spot, or 'down in a hole' (hills around you), you should still be able to get the neighboring counties north (Wise & Jack) west (Palo Pinto) and south of you (Hood, probably Johnson, & possibly even Somervell). If you're far enough east, and not blocked by hills, I suspect you'd also be able to get the FtW/Tarrant County TRS system, and maybe White Settlement. Some of that would be limited if you use just the supplied antenna, but the neighboring counties are largely Vhf-high, with a couple of Uhf. These are strong signals, that carry very well. DPS Mineral Wells, and especially the Aledo repeater, should also be in your programming mix. As should the Texas Forest Service, since we're in a drought, and there are burn bans & red flag warnings up.

The FWTC system, as well as White Settlement, are 800Mhz.