Midtown Bawlmer... can pick up 856.2125, currently a control channel...about 70-80% decoding rate. But not much traffic coming through....and I'm hearing traffic on the old system, too, if that helps.Up until last week i was receiving all the BCPD traffic just fine on P25. Now i get nothing at all. Has something changed?
That's a fairly normal thing I believe -- in AA County, one used to be able to hear the dispatchers and the field units on the paging frequency but over time the only thing you'd hear (was patched) was the dispatcher side. These days the only thing you ever hear on AA County's pager frequency is the dispatcher - period.Traffic seems back to normal now. And while I was listening, I noticed 46.46 is showing a PL of 118.8, but it seems like it's only showing up on one side of some of the convo's....is that normal or are they in the midst of a changeover?
That would be the difference between a dispatcher multi-select and a patch on the console.That's a fairly normal thing I believe -- in AA County, one used to be able to hear the dispatchers and the field units on the paging frequency but over time the only thing you'd hear (was patched) was the dispatcher side. These days the only thing you ever hear on AA County's pager frequency is the dispatcher - period.
Must be part of the County's "green" initiative :lol:Interestingly, I've noted remarkable improvement in home / local mobile reception of the Balt Co system over the last 1-2 weeks. This happens to coincide with an explosion of foliage growth around my neck of the woods - and I presume the leaves are helping to attenuate signals from some of the more distant system towers. Anyone else enjoying better signals these days? There is so much dense tree cover around my area, that back in the analog days, I typically had great Winter reception and only variable Summer reception of the Balt Co 800 system.
Perhaps our best solution, going forward, is to plant thousands of evergreens around the county ;-)
Sadly... I've noticed no improvement whatsoever.Interestingly, I've noted remarkable improvement in home / local mobile reception of the Balt Co system over the last 1-2 weeks. This happens to coincide with an explosion of foliage growth around my neck of the woods - and I presume the leaves are helping to attenuate signals from some of the more distant system towers. Anyone else enjoying better signals these days? There is so much dense tree cover around my area, that back in the analog days, I typically had great Winter reception and only variable Summer reception of the Balt Co 800 system.
Perhaps our best solution, going forward, is to plant thousands of evergreens around the county ;-)
Me too. Some days most transmissions are intelligible. Then a day or two later it's bad again. Sometimes it varies throughout the day.Sadly... I've noticed no improvement whatsoever.
Bummer.....