Forty8leap
Member
I have a Homepatrol II which was purchased as a gift in order to listen to Tucson TPD. We are newbies, and are used to the old Radioshack analog scanners which picked up everything in our area. Tucson TPD are on Pima County Wireless Integrated Network (PCWIN), Project 25 Phase II, APCO-25. We want to listen to our local police talkgroups, specifically TPD Team-4 which is the area we live. I have downloaded Home Patrol Sentinel version 2.03 (rev 05) onto my laptop and have updated the database and did a "write to Home Patrol". I first cleared all the data on the Homepatrol so as to start over. No luck thus far. Am picking up just a few of the Tucson Police channels, not ones in our immediate zipcode area. It can also pull in the Highway Patrol miles away. I'm not sure what the Squelch or Range should be on. I have Squelch around 5 bars and Range 10 miles. I have reduced the Select Service Types to Law Dispatch, Tac, and Talk. I have replaced the stock antenna with a Diamond SRH 789 but don't seem to notice any difference with it. I've even been up on the roof with it to see if being outside would help. Any other ideas?