BCD325P2 and TDMA

[kenholden]

I have no problem opening the file with ARC-XT. Before opening the file with ARC-XT, locate the zipped file you saved in the Downloads folder of the File Explorer. Right click on the file and Extract All. You must extract the file from the zipped folder first. Click Open on ARC-XT and Open the extracted file (Montgomery Fire.rsf) in the Downloads folder.

That worked. Thank you.

 

[kenholden]

That worked. Thank you.

I am receiving the talkgroups, but I have to be fairly closer to the county than before. Used to be 10 miles outside the county and could pick up the chatter. Now I have to be about 1 mile outside the county. Is the SDS100 a better scanner?

 

[jeff]

Check your P25 threshold setting, I have mine set to 9 and have no problem with simulcast sites.

 

[darkness975]

Our county just went to Phase 2 and TDMA. I no longer can get the talkgroups. Is the BCD325P2 compatible for TDMA? Do I need to change settings?

It is technically but it needs a stronger signal. My state PD went phase 1 last year and the 325p2 stopped working on it from home and I could only hear them with the SDS scanners. Then they went phase 2 and I had to do some major tweaking on those to hear them again while the 325p2 is hopeless from this location.

But if I take it out in the car, once I get about a half mile down the road, the 325p2 works on the system as if nothing was wrong.

 

[tvengr]

I am receiving the talkgroups, but I have to be fairly closer to the county than before. Used to be 10 miles outside the county and could pick up the chatter. Now I have to be about 1 mile outside the county.

Sounds like you were receiving conventional frequencies that are patched from the trunked system.

Fire/EMS VHF

Frequency	License	Type	Tone	Alpha Tag	Description	Mode	Tag
150.99500		RM	210.7 PL	MCFR 7V1 Ops	7V1 Ops	FMN	Fire-Tac
154.16000		RM	156.7 PL	MCFR 7V2 Disp	7V2 Dispatch	FMN	Fire Dispatch
155.10000		RM	146.2 PL	MCFR 7V3 Rock	7V3 Rockville	FMN	Fire-Tac
154.35500		RM	100.0 PL	MCFR 7V4 Beth	7V4 Bethesda	FMN	Fire-Tac

 

[kenholden]

Here is an ARC-XT file for Montgomery Co Fire. Save the attached zipped file to your computer and extract. Open the extracted file with ARC-XT and Upload to Scanner. System quick key is 1. Group quick keys as follows:

1. MontCo Fire Ops

2. MontCo Fire Misc

3. MontCo EMS/Hosp

4. MontCo Interop

Did you create this file? If you did, you did a great job. Thank you very much.

 

[kenholden]

It is technically but it needs a stronger signal. My state PD went phase 1 last year and the 325p2 stopped working on it from home and I could only hear them with the SDS scanners. Then they went phase 2 and I had to do some major tweaking on those to hear them again while the 325p2 is hopeless from this location.

But if I take it out in the car, once I get about a half mile down the road, the 325p2 works on the system as if nothing was wrong.

I have to be within a mile or 2 of my county to hear the talkgroups. Two miles away and I hear nothing.

 

[tvengr]

Did you create this file?

Yes! I do all custom programming from scratch. I find that the alpha tags from the downloads are often very ambiguous. I like to do all of my own alpha tags so that they are more understandable and separate talkgroups into groups or departments with quick keys to make it easy to select what you want to monitor.. I program scanners for firefighters in my area.