Roseville/St Clair Shores way too quiet on my Pro 106

[flagmanf]

I am looking for help as I have tried every thing I can think of. I live around 11 mi and Gratiot and really do not pick up much from Roseville and SCS police Depts I know the city's are not that dead. I initially programmed the radio by hand then purchased Win500 software to program it because I figured I had done something wrong. I ended up with the same results. I also bought a 800mhz from RS in hopes of receiving better but most of what I hear cuts out after a word or 2. Then I thought it might be overload and have turned on the Attenuator globally but without much luck. Fire and EMS in both cities is non existent and am wondering if id's might have changed with the new dispatch center. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Flagmanf

 

[n8zcc]

I just looked through yesterday's (01/02) log file that WIN500 saves and I saw activity from Roseville PD on TG 2879 and St. Clair Shores PD on TG 2875. This activity was captured off of the Romeo tower.

 

[fnnm1062]

i do believe the tg's have changed or will be changing soon, but i could be wrong

 

[ffsocko92]

The new TG's can be found in the MPSCS database under Macomb County - SERESA.

 

[kb8rvp]

I would check your control channel for the romeo tower 868.5125 and 868.1625 for the backup and main romeo tower frequency are programmed into the scanner. Also you can check to make sure you are picking up the control channel at your location. When you pick up something on the above frequency press "man", then "F2", then "F3" to analyz the control channel. You should hear the control channel from the speaker and see data coming from the channel and see a 99% or lower number in the bottom left part of the LCD screen. If not you can press the down arrow on the multi function control to scroll through the channels you have programmed in until you get to one that you can hear the control data and see the 99% go active and the data sound.

You need to be aware with digital scanning you may find dead spots at your location. I have helped people program scanners and found that they needed to move the scanner six inches and all of a sudden it works just fine. I have helped others that could not receive anything at home because of interference from cell towers or because they just didn't have a tower in range using the stock antenna, but we would drive a mile down the road and it worked just fine.

You can also search for control channels in your area by using the search function to see what control channels you can receive: Keep pressing search until you get to "public safty". Then press 0,1,2,3 to turn off everything but the 800MHz freq. Then press the down arrow so you start at the higher freq and go down from there. Write down the freq you receive it should say P25: xxx (the tower number) mine shows P25: 794/ 868.925000 for the Holly tower in North Oakland County. Once you figure out if you can pick up a tower freq and what it is, that is the first step. If it is different that what you have programmed in you can add this new freq to your system programmed.

You can also search for new talk groups by programming a wildcard object so you hear everything coming accross the tower/control channel instead of just St Clair Shores so you can make sure your programming is working instead of just a few talk groups that may not be real active.
Let me know if you have any other questions.

Mike

 

[detroit780]

Talk Groups changed

This might help.


Macomb County (50) SERESA - Fire Talkgroups
The Southeast Regional Emergency Services Authority (SERESA), is a joint 9-1-1 emergency communications center. They handle all dispatching for the Macomb County cities of Eastpoint, Roseville and St. Clair Shores. Additional nearby communities may join SERESA in the future.



DEC HEX Mode Alpha Tag Description Tag
12619 314b D SERESA FIRE SERESA 9-1-1 Fire - Dispatch Fire Dispatch

Macomb County (50) SERESA - Law Enforcement Talkgroups

DEC HEX Mode Alpha Tag Description Tag
12566 3116 D SERESA CAR Car-to-Car Law Talk

I am looking for help as I have tried every thing I can think of. I live around 11 mi and Gratiot and really do not pick up much from Roseville and SCS police Depts I know the city's are not that dead. I initially programmed the radio by hand then purchased Win500 software to program it because I figured I had done something wrong. I ended up with the same results. I also bought a 800mhz from RS in hopes of receiving better but most of what I hear cuts out after a word or 2. Then I thought it might be overload and have turned on the Attenuator globally but without much luck. Fire and EMS in both cities is non existent and am wondering if id's might have changed with the new dispatch center. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Flagmanf

 

[freqs]

11 and Gratiot you may want to try as well Tower 219 Macomb Simulcast 868.9875 you may have better luck with that twr in the southern part of the county

 

[OsloViking1975]

As Fregs Said the Macomb Tower might be a better option for you. I just heard ST.Clair Shores and Roseville PD. The alternate cc is 868.26250 and Freqs gave the other one.

 

[ssmontecarlo82]

I'm at 12 and Gratiot and have all sorts of trouble picking up Roseville and Warren. I can move the scanner all of 2 feet in certain places in my home and it clears everything up. There's some wierd interference going on over here in Roseville. When I lived at 12 and Ryan in Warren, I had no trouble at all anywhere in that house. Moving the scanner a little bit may correct the problem.

 

[freqs]

I know that there is a Macomb Simulcast 868.9875MHz tower at 11 and mound and one on 12 mile and 94 area I know the Nextel towers will jack up a Scanner and overlaoad it some say a good yagi pointed at the nearest tower may help .
Iam moving from 9 and Van Dyke area to 11 and Schoenherr and total diff between houses as far as reception for MPSCS TOWERS. 9 mile house great on Detroits MPSCS and no good on Macomb simulcast and good on Romeo new house fairly well on all but I have no other towers like nextel or TV towers near it where I did at the 9 mile house

 

[flagmanf]

Thank you for all the reply's. I am trying to learn as fast as I can with the time I have available. Its hard to believe how hard figuring all this out is, a bit different that it was in the past How do you guys find the towers. Someone posted a google map file with the towers and that's what I have been using. The Winn500 software is really nice especially for someone like me that keeps storing frequencies but cant figure out how to delete them

 

[flagmanf]

I am pretty close to that big tower on Grosebeck and 696. I think that might have something to do with it. The scanner might just be an expensive brick in this house. I will have to take it over to my parents in SCS and give it a try