Question for you Mass scanner folks.
I have a bcd996xt and am using proscan and radio reference subscription to load my scanner - and it is mostly working (plenty to listen to), I think, but I have a question about 854.4875 in particular.
I loaded into my system as part of Hampshire County - S. Hadley PD, and with further research I see it is actually assigned to the Mass State Police now instead. It is one of my strongest and most traffic'ed frequncies - I hear lots and lots of MSP traffic on it (4000+ hits in a week or so)
It seems like that particular frequency is one of the SP frequencies on the Monson tower, with a control channel of 860.3625c
I thought when I loaded the SP frequencies, I was supposed to selected 'load control frequencies only', which I did, but why am I hearing lots (and lots and lots) of traffic on 854.4875 in my Hampshire country system (I haven't relabeled it yet), but none of that same traffic when I listen to the Monson tower on 860.36250c? Shouldn't I, they are both scanned in the same cycle? I thought I understood that if I programmed in the control channel, the other frequencies on the same channel would be heard as well? Or do I fundamentally not understand what I am talking about?
I am concerned that I am not doing it right, and only am hearing this very active channel because it was pulled in to S.Hadley group by mistake, makes me wonder how much other traffic I am missing completely when I thought my trunking was setup correctly.
Hope this question is clear enough, but could use some guidance. Trunked scanning is new for me.
I have a bcd996xt and am using proscan and radio reference subscription to load my scanner - and it is mostly working (plenty to listen to), I think, but I have a question about 854.4875 in particular.
I loaded into my system as part of Hampshire County - S. Hadley PD, and with further research I see it is actually assigned to the Mass State Police now instead. It is one of my strongest and most traffic'ed frequncies - I hear lots and lots of MSP traffic on it (4000+ hits in a week or so)
It seems like that particular frequency is one of the SP frequencies on the Monson tower, with a control channel of 860.3625c
I thought when I loaded the SP frequencies, I was supposed to selected 'load control frequencies only', which I did, but why am I hearing lots (and lots and lots) of traffic on 854.4875 in my Hampshire country system (I haven't relabeled it yet), but none of that same traffic when I listen to the Monson tower on 860.36250c? Shouldn't I, they are both scanned in the same cycle? I thought I understood that if I programmed in the control channel, the other frequencies on the same channel would be heard as well? Or do I fundamentally not understand what I am talking about?
I am concerned that I am not doing it right, and only am hearing this very active channel because it was pulled in to S.Hadley group by mistake, makes me wonder how much other traffic I am missing completely when I thought my trunking was setup correctly.
Hope this question is clear enough, but could use some guidance. Trunked scanning is new for me.
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