Monitoring Baltimore County Police

[thomasjgunn]

Hello Everyone,
I have just moved back into the area after living in Southern MD for 22 years, I own a BC796D and would like to monitor the Balto County PD. I have the Radio Reference Wiki documents on how the BCoPD has changed to a simulcast repeater system that can confuse most trunker scanning radios is there a way around this other than pausing on an input freq and just listening there

 

[troymail]

Scanners will be hit and miss -- the older the scanner, the worse it will probably be.

Best thing on the market today to overcome the simulcast issues is a Unication G4 or G5 -- but a HUGE word of caution.... DO YOUR RESEARCH first.... The Unication Gx pagers are just that - pagers - but with some fairly limited scanning ability.

 

[marksmith]

While you are within Baltimore County, and mobile, the simulcast issue is not real bad.

It is worst when you are stationary, and directly between two transmit sites.

I use an HP-2 in the vehicles and it seems to handle the challenge while mobile where your chances of being in strong range of a single tower is better.

Mark
536/436/ws1095/996p2/996xt/325p2/396xt/psr800/396t/HP-1/HP-2 & others

 

[ka3jjz]

I know that when I had my 396, and driving up from Bowie, I had to turn on my attenuator when trying to hear the county. It was listenable but certainly not always clear...Mike

 

[troymail]

It will drive you nuts.