BCT15X trunk programming noob

[Horatio]

I'm trying to wrap my head around programming my scanner to monitor a MOT simulcast system in Sarpy County Nebraska. I spent the better part of a day manually entering about a third of all the talk groups. I have to be missing some basic element because when I scan I'm hearing NOTHING on the MOT systems and groups I have entered. Anyone out there that can slap me in the back of the head and tell me what I may be overlooking? Perhaps a setup and configuration file I could load?

 

[eaf1956]

Are you sure it isn't a digital system? the BCT15X is an analog scanner.

 

[buddrousa]

Analog and APCO-25 Common Air Interface

DEC	HEX	Mode	Alpha Tag	Description	Tag
144	009	A	LE Common 1	LE Common 1	Interop
656	029	A	LE Common 2	LE Common 2	Interop
592	025	A	LE Admin	LE Administration	Interop
38448	963	DE	LE	LE	Interop
40112	9cb	DE	LE Digital	LE Digital	Law Tac
38416	961	DE	Law Fire	LE/Fire

Under Mode DE = Digital FULLTIME ENCRYPTION you can not hear.
Under Mode A = Analog you can hear.

DEC	HEX	Mode	Alpha Tag	Description	Tag
39824	9b9	D	SarpyCo FD Disp	Fire Dispatch	Fire Dispatch

Under Mode D = Digital P25 you need a P25 scanner to hear.

 

[wbswetnam]

It could be that they're simply not using the analog channels. My local PD has dispatch 1 which is encrypted, and dispatch 2 which is in the clear. Well, guess which one they always use? Yep! The enc one.

 

[NebraskaCoder]

You need to use the Digital System. The analog system is pretty much dead. Go to the ORION system and use the Sarpy site frequencies. See the Nebraska forum for additional details about the move.

 

[ka3aaa]

a digital system will not work on an analogue scanner such as the 15x

 

[doctordialtone]

I'm trying to wrap my head around programming my scanner to monitor a MOT simulcast system in Sarpy County Nebraska. I spent the better part of a day manually entering about a third of all the talk groups.

As @ka3aaa stated, it won't work

 

[N6JPA]

I'm trying to wrap my head around programming my scanner to monitor a MOT simulcast system in Sarpy County Nebraska. I spent the better part of a day manually entering about a third of all the talk groups. I have to be missing some basic element because when I scan I'm hearing NOTHING on the MOT systems and groups I have entered. Anyone out there that can slap me in the back of the head and tell me what I may be overlooking? Perhaps a setup and configuration file I could load?

That county is Digital APCO-25 Type 1. You need a digital scanner.

 

[hiegtx]

The database page for Sarpy County is contradictory. It shows Bellevue using the Sarpy County P25 system. But if you look at that system, it's flagged as deprecated, no longer in use.

Based on comments down in the Nebraska forum, as well as notes on the ORION system's page, Sarpy rolled their system into ORION, and have a number of talkgroups on that system. Comments on the system page shows that the Sarpy system was merged into ORION late November of last year. As already noted above, the ORION system is digital, so there are no analog talkgroups that could still be monitored with the BCT15X.

 

[Horatio]

Thank you to everyone. I was thinking that was the case so it doesn't surprise me. Guess I'm going to have to save my pennies for a digital scanner. From what I see they are awfully expensive,

 

[kwboehm]

I have a Home Patrol installed in my car. I can no longer receive Sarpy County. I've updated the firmware and database, but I still get nothing from Sarpy. I actually get Omaha better now. I've also lost Lincoln / Lancaster County except for Lincoln Fire Dispatch. When then migrated was it to a system that's too new for the Home Patrol, or is it something else (I don't want to say the word in the warning at the top of the page).

 

[kwboehm]

I don't know what I did, but Sarpy now comes through. Now to figure out Lincoln / Lancaster County.

 

[NebraskaCoder]

I'm receiving LE West just fine. Do you have HomePatrol 1 or 2? HP1 doesn't work with P25 Phase II.