Anyone here from stearns county? Looking for some help with my 396t.
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ThinBlueLine22
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I'm not from Stearns Co, but I can try to help you out. What do you want to know?
I'm not from Stearns Co, but I can try to help you out. What do you want to know?
After researching around here and trying different things, seems to be better. Looking for optimum settings for my 396t. Suggestions?
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Sorry, not too familiar witb the uniden product. Are you having issues with a simulcast ARMER site? If so, there are some postings on that topic.
Sorry, not too familiar witb the uniden product. Are you having issues with a simulcast ARMER site? If so, there are some postings on that topic.
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I am in Sherburne Co and Have a 996XT. I do have the Simulcast problem with the Sherburne/Enfield site, it sounds like the signal is not strong enough and the digital is broken up and have loss of comms. In reality I am experience issues with the simulcast problem, I can pick up more than one of the towers up and its screws up the Uniden (more so than the RS Pro-106). What I do is turn Attenuation on for the site, that seems to help (kills one of the signals that is further away), also on the 996 there are some hidden adjustments that can help out slightly not sure if they apply for the 396 though.
Are you trying to listen to the St Cloud Simulcast or one of the other Stearns sites? I travel through there but never noticed anything weird. Of course I am using the PRO-106 when traveling.
I have all the control channels from St cloud area and enfield. I live by Clearwater. Some of the transmissions are choppy. Presuming it's from one of the distant towers. I pick up enfield real good here. From what i can tell, St cloud is 24000 series and wright county I'm presuming is 25000 series, but cannot confirm this. I just found the hidden menus to make adjustments so will try those to see if I can tweak this a bit more. One question is since minnesota is not a true P25 system, when programming a new bank, i use motorola, then 800 MHz standard instead of P25, correct? Thanks for the help.
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ThinBlueLine22
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ARMER is a P25 system, what would lead you to believe that it is not (just curious). I use the P25 setting in my PRO-106 and it works great. It looks like Wright County use talkgroups 25300 to 25399.
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I read somewhere there were only 3 true P25 systems in the country. I'll try to find it and post it. Am hearing everyone using the moto regular 800 MHz but will add another with P25 and compare the two and see what happens. Kind of figured wright county was 25000 series. Today, I was getting 3 digit talk groups. Sounded like some kind of maintenance guys talking.
WX0BPR
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25000-25100 Sherburne Co
27100+ is Albany Hosp (for example) and Stearns Co Stuff seems to be medical.
25300+ Wright co as you describe
24000+ yep St Cloud and other Stearns, 24900+ is Benton Co
3 digit ones, you could be getting Anoka Co Stuff on Enfield, or lots of MNDOT TG's there too, many unidentified ones as well.
P25 setting most definitely, on my 996 its called "P25 Standard (Digital XT)". That's what its called in Freescan which I use to program scanner anyway, I am not near it now to look.
If memory serves me correctly when I used Mot Type II P25 as a newbie last summer and uploaded it to scanner, it would work, but when you download it from scanner it had become P25 Standard (Digital XT).
Its a P25 system, I think what keeps it from being "pure" digital P25 is there are still analog VHF channels patched into it (tied into it whatever the techie term is).
And I looked at the setting on my 996 that is hidden that seems to have the most effect is "P25 Level Adjust" its default on mine is 50, 150-200 works better. Not sure if that is on 396.
I learned one mine the hard way at times, but I enjoy messing with it!!
Thanks for the info. I don't know what happened but added Minneapolis and Hennepin county the same way I did St cloud, now I don't pick up anything. It's scanning but nothing the last 4 hrs. After I added them, tried to scan all 3. The display went pretty fast between the 3 that I couldn't recognize the letters. Locked them out, deaf. Any suggestions?
Still playing with it. Reprogrammed. Now am only picking up enfield tower. Still deaf on St cloud, kimball, which isn't to far from me. Is anyone picking up St cloud past few days?
ThinBlueLine22
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Perhaps they changed their control channel to a freq that you did not enter?
WX0BPR
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To far away from St Cloud to tell. But ThinBlueLine might be on to something, I just learned by hearing little that Hennepin does checkout there Alternate channels periodically and that makes for slow listening. On my Uniden freescan loads all control channels main and alt.
Other than that I am at a loss for your problem????
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Have you thought about doing a full reset on the scanner and reprogramming?
Already did that. Unless there is a different method, I held the 3 buttons while turning on. Still no problem hearing enfield, which only at 1 freq, and it's an primary only. No alternate list on RR. Are you folks putting just the primary and alternate in the freq's list or are you including those other freq's? Have read you only need the CC freq's unless none are listed.
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ThinBlueLine22
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If the alternates are listed in the DB I will also put those in my scanner just in case the primary CC goes down or they decide to rotate CC's.
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When it is scanning faster than normal it is not receiving any control channel signal. You are out of range to receive Minneapolis and Hennepin East-201 you might get Hennepin West-202 is possible but not that likely. If you want Metro talkgroups your best bet is probably using the Anoka system. I ran the St. Cloud tower info through a propagation application and it seems that Clearwater is a reduced signal level area. Do you have the attenuator turned on-ATT displayed next to NFM on display?
When it is scanning faster than normal it is not receiving any control channel signal. You are out of range to receive Minneapolis and Hennepin East-201 you might get Hennepin West-202 is possible but not that likely. If you want Metro talkgroups your best bet is probably using the Anoka system. I ran the St. Cloud tower info through a propagation application and it seems that Clearwater is a reduced signal level area. Do you have the attenuator turned on-ATT displayed next to NFM on display?
I put the twin cities on there for when I go down there. Didn't expect to hear anything up here. The attenuator is off. I was picking up St cloud pretty good until I added twin cities. Am north of Clearwater so can and did listen to St cloud. Only thing I get now is off of enfield tower (shurbern/wright), loud and clear.
Got a response from uniden. My call if I want to send it in. Also have kimball tower loaded to. Will go into St cloud in a few days and bring it with to see if I can pick up anything. Will send it in to uniden if nothing happens.
Got a response from uniden. My call if I want to send it in. Also have kimball tower loaded to. Will go into St cloud in a few days and bring it with to see if I can pick up anything. Will send it in to uniden if nothing happens.
Went into St cloud today with the scanner. Listen to St cloud with no problems. Not sure why I was able to listen to them before but not now. Either interference or the transmit power was reduced, if that's possible. Guess my scanner is ok.
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