Unfortunately, it's your scanner that's the problem.Hi I live in Warminster and been having issues listening to Bucks county my current scanner is an Whistler trx1. I been getting missed transmissions and garbled transmissions even with a new antenna from remtronics.
Thanks I was ready to buy one this weekend. There's nothing else I guess?Before you go buying a SDS 100 to listen to Bucks County understand it'll only be the fire that you will eventually hear. The Board of Supervisors approved the 1.2 million dollars the other night too enable EMS and Fire supervisors and equipment to hear encrypted transmissions from the police and that is the only thing that has been keeping them from going over to full-time encryption. The reason quoted was the Coronavirus.
law enforcement I've talked to have another reason, we just keep shooting ourselves in the foot.
It is a well-known fact that Whistler radios do not work on tdma Phase 2. Some claim they do but I've never heard of it or seen it. I have a TRX 1, it never worked a lick on Bucks County p2. I took the batteries out and put it in the Boneyard with the rest of the radios I don't need anymore. It worked great on Burlington County type II smartzone but now they are Phase 2 encrypted.
Really depends on your listening interests. LE, Fire & EMS accounts for a tiny portion of everything I listen to. There's also aviation, amateur radio, railroads, SEPTA (some real interesting stuff there sometime) & more. There are other counties (like Chester County) who have switched over to a simulcast P25 system & are still mostly in the clear so keeping an SDS100 in your radio arsenal is still a good idea, very versatile radio and the rave reviews on the Uniden forums are a testimony to thatThanks I was ready to buy one this weekend. There's nothing else I guess?
Yep I have a 100 and 200, 536 and a 1095 on my bedside with ground planes and lmr400. I've been listening to police and fire radio since I was 12 so that's 55 years.Really depends on your listening interests. LE, Fire & EMS accounts for a tiny portion of everything I listen to. There's also aviation, amateur radio, railroads, SEPTA (some real interesting stuff there sometime) & more. There are other counties (like Chester County) who have switched over to a simulcast P25 system & are still mostly in the clear so keeping an SDS100 in your radio arsenal is still a good idea, very versatile radio and the rave reviews on the Uniden forums are a testimony to that
Yes the G5 and 100 are not affected by simulcast distortion secondary to LSM like the posters Whistler radio is. Unfortunately a G5 is not capable of picking up encrypted transmissions and that was the point here. Bucks County will soon be going police full encryption and neighboring counties like Burlington just went police full encryption and the other neighboring County Montgomery will be going police full encryption in December so...HI, I now 2 Unication g 5 pagers. Like others have said sell Your whistler and get a g5. you wont be disappointed. You will here systems the uniden dreams about.
Bob the Unication G4 and G5 are capable of encryption, you just need the "key" !Yes the G5 and 100 are not affected by simulcast distortion secondary to LSM like the posters Whistler radio is. Unfortunately a G5 is not capable of picking up encrypted transmissions and that was the point here. Bucks County will soon be going police full encryption and neighboring counties like Burlington just went police full encryption and the other neighboring County Montgomery will be going police full encryption in December so...
At least we were able to establish that the TRX 1 was being affected by simulcast Distortion and has a history of not being able to handle tdma Phase 2 transmissions, yes a G5 and SDS can.
Last I heard is that the new hospital notification individualized talkgroups will eventually be encrypted. Haven't heard anything about actual fire Ops or EMS North and South being encrypted. They are in the process however of altering Fire & EMS to be able to pick up police encryption using the money allocated by the County Commissioners to do just that, increasing situational awareness. Any further confirmation from your "friend" in the "fire department" would be appreciated, like source? What fire department?Just got an update from a friend in the fire department by the end of July all fire and ems is going encrypted except dispatch
StarNet has a number of sites that are likely irrelevant to you if you are monitoring from a fixed location. They should be locked out, which will help speed up your scanning.Hi,
Hope I'm not interrupting (of course I'm interrupting, sorry) BUT since this is about Bucks County reception, I have the SDS100 for a week now and love it.
My question; I noticed the PA-STARNet takes a while to scan and NOTHING ever shows up, so should I just lock it out or do I just need a different antenna ?
trentbob I'm thinking you have the best advice here. Thanks.
Well before you get too concerned about listening to this system, apparently you are using the database to do the ZIP code search?Hi,
Hope I'm not interrupting (of course I'm interrupting, sorry) BUT since this is about Bucks County reception, I have the SDS100 for a week now and love it.
My question; I noticed the PA-STARNet takes a while to scan and NOTHING ever shows up, so should I just lock it out or do I just need a different antenna ?
trentbob I'm thinking you have the best advice here. Thanks.
I had Bear Cat Warehouse program 5 Counties and the PA-STARNet appeared in the scanner when scanning all 5 counties. Your opinion has convinced me it's probably not worth leaving PA-STARNet active since I have not heard anything anyway and it seems to take some time to scan through it.Well before you get too concerned about listening to this system, apparently you are using the database to do the ZIP code search?
Speaking for my personal opinion I have no use for that system whatsoever. So far the only thing that's in the clear around us would be the Department of Transportation, any kind of police activity like State Police or park rangers are encrypted.
It's a system that uses many many sites, if you ever want to copy it from Sentinel you will avoid all of those sites except for, depending on where you are, Buckingham, Monty or Philly, I may not be using the right abbreviation.
If you are to scroll through all of those sites the range that you have set, it will really slow you down and you are not going to hear anything anyway except maybe some road crew filling a pothole or something. Might have some value in a blizzard if you're into listening to snow plows LOL.
I have no interest in it whatsoever and know very little about it but there is a thread in the Pennsylvania forum with some very experienced people who are mapping out the system. I was hoping to hear the park rangers at Neshaminy and Tyler and although there are channels in the clear for park operations the Rangers have a private encrypted Channel. I personally would not pursue the system myself but that's a personal opinion.