Adding more talkgroups

[Jason_wyler]

I am thinking of adding more talkgroups to my Bell FleetNet system. So far I have the Ottawa Lanark but since I am only in Ottawa does it make any sense to program the rest of the talk groups ID's in this section ?

DEC	HEX	Mode	Alpha Tag	Description	Tag
8704	2200	D	2OPS31	Stormont, Dundas, Glengary 3I - 2OPS31	Law Dispatch
8720	2210	D	2OPS32	Frontenac 3R/Napanee 3J - 2OPS32 / Prince Edward 3O	Law Dispatch
8752	2230	D	2OPS34	Russell County 3E/Hawkesbury 3H - 2OP34	Law Dispatch
8768	2240	D	2OPS35	Bancroft 3C/Centre Hastings 3Q/Quinte West 3U - 2OPS35	Law Dispatch
8784	2250	D	2OPS36	Kawartha Lakes 1J/Haliburton 1E - 2OPS36	Law Dispatch
8800	2260	D	2OPS37	Ottawa 3K/Lanark 3N - 2OPS37	Law Dispatch
8816	2270	D	2OPS38	Grenville 3P/Leeds 3D - 2OPS38	Law Dispatch
8832	2280	D	2OPS39	Northumberland 1F/Peterborough 1I - 2OPS39	Law Dispatch
8928	22e0	D	2OPS40	Unknown 2OPS40	Law Dispatch
8944	22f0	D	2OPS41	Bracebridge/Huntsville 1C - 2OPS41	Law Dispatch
8960	2300	D	2OPS42	Renfrew County 3T - 2OPS42	Law Dispatch
9056	2360	D	2OPS48	West Parry Sound 4J/Almaguin Highlands 4C - 2OPS48

 

[Enjoi19]

You'll only receive talkgroups that have radios affiliated to the site you're listening to. The OPP does do a fair bit of patching so you may find other things active. Plug them in and see what happens, some days you catch more, some days you don't.

 

[Jason_wyler]

I just took this screen shot of the trunk system and it seem to me that it only has one site running

It looks like only 1 site is in operation site 2 and that covers 20 range

Here a screen shot of site 1 here it says this but on the other page it says 0 so don’t know

 

[EJB]

There's a simple solution to this.

Do custom searches. For FleetNet, do a custom scan from 141-144. If you set up the custom search to scan for repeaters and towers you will be able to figure out which towers you can scan. It will tell you the system and numeric tower.

For other systems do custom searches for the appropriate frequencies.

You can run many systems to scan at a time on a 325P2. I'd create and monitor my local tower, 1 for MOH, and another for the digital stuff.
I'd also scan a few local systems.

And I'd create systems, FleetNet for close towers, i.e. Mowat, Britannia for the GTA, and another system for stuff in SW Ontario like Brantford, Woodstock. I'd generally scan anywhere from 2 to 10 different quick keys at a time.

You'll learn more by doing things yourself and people will help you more if you do.

Eric

 

[Aviator747]

There's a simple solution to this.

Do custom searches. For FleetNet, do a custom scan from 141-144. If you set up the custom search to scan for repeaters and towers you will be able to figure out which towers you can scan. It will tell you the system and numeric tower.

For other systems do custom searches for the appropriate frequencies.

You can run many systems to scan at a time on a 325P2. I'd create and monitor my local tower, 1 for MOH, and another for the digital stuff.
I'd also scan a few local systems.

And I'd create systems, FleetNet for close towers, i.e. Mowat, Britannia for the GTA, and another system for stuff in SW Ontario like Brantford, Woodstock. I'd generally scan anywhere from 2 to 10 different quick keys at a time.

You'll learn more by doing things yourself and people will help you more if you do.

Eric

Or sit down with the list of towers and do a direct entry into the scanner and see if you can hear the CC or not.

 

[EJB]

May I ask or are you using software or by hand?

 

[Jason_wyler]

May I ask or are you using software or by hand?

I don’t use software. I usually I do it by hand. The only reason why I had software was I was talking to a guy who doc up the file for Ottawa P25 system and he told me it is Motorola Type ll P25 system. I uploaded that to the scanner and it is working perfectly.
Then I had other people tell me it not MOT Type ll P25. When I asked the person to do the file, I asked him if that is the right system type he said yes. I have it running and the audio is clear.

 

[mikewazowski]

 

[EJB]

I don’t use software. I usually I do it by hand. The only reason why I had software was I was talking to a guy who doc up the file for Ottawa P25 system and he told me it is Motorola Type ll P25 system. I uploaded that to the scanner and it is working perfectly.
Then I had other people tell me it not MOT Type ll P25. When I asked the person to do the file, I asked him if that is the right system type he said yes. I have it running and the audio is clear.

Programming by hand is like only using a few gears of a top notch sports car. Your scanner is designed for software. I don't understand why spend $500 on a BCD 325P2 and then spend hours piece by piece. You could load up your city system with tags, choose which tg's within seconds using software and being a member of the site.

If you can use Excel or Google sheets, you can program with software.

 

[Jason_wyler]

Just so you all know, I did switch it to the right system with Freescan. I did it all by looking at the database and typing in to the software.
I will attach the file here.