Circle says 5 miles hard to tell if it is correct on distance wise....
I've been involved a conversation with the OP before, both on a previous
thread, and also PMs. He was able to hear Lancaster on his TRX-2, but not his SDS200. He is very close to the 'antenna farm' in Cedar Hill, where all the broadcast towers for the DFW metro area TV stations, as well as many of the FM stations, are located. Most of these towers also have multiple repeater platforms for various PLMR systems as well.
I am farther away than the OP, but have no problems hearing Lancaster, including from locations even farther north and west of my residence..
If Encrypted you won't hear them. Do you have ID Search on or off? If off than try On see if there is other activity?
Lancaster is not encrypted.
While I have not been able to confirm it, I still suspect that the issue may be caused by interference from newly activated digital TV stations. There were comments to that effect, regarding interference, in the October 2020 issue of The Spectrum Monitor. Two of the local PLMR providers, with multiple sites in North Texas, have reconfigured the frequencies they are using in part due to this interference. See this thread from the Texas forum.
Just curious if any monitors have heard any recent chopper dispatches from Careflite on this system. I used to hear tone outs for scene calls on TG 8803 all the time, as well as radio traffic on TG 8806 Air Tac. Lately though, it seems everything has gone silent. Just to make sure I was still...
forums.radioreference.com
maybe encrypted...
