Claremore PD?

[peterjmag]

Does anyone know if Claremore PD still has their old VHF radios installed for use? I know most agencies will do away with the old gear and just use the new but then again some are kept as a back up or car to car use?


P.J.

 

[tiawah466]

they still have them, you will hear them on county side sometimes, Claremore Fire still has their VHF radios also.

 

[Chaos703]

If I may, I'd like to piggyback another Claremore question here. My scanner really struggles with Claremore's LTR system. It will only stop on transmissions that last more than 3 or 4 seconds. My question is this: If I just monitor 460.4625 as a non-trunked freq, am I missing anything? It doesn't sound like I'm missing anything.

Second question: If this works for Claremore, is there also one freq I can monitor for Lincoln County's LTR?

 

[2112]

If I may, I'd like to piggyback another Claremore question here. My scanner really struggles with Claremore's LTR system. It will only stop on transmissions that last more than 3 or 4 seconds. My question is this: If I just monitor 460.4625 as a non-trunked freq, am I missing anything? It doesn't sound like I'm missing anything.

You'd have to monitor all five frequencies if you want to minimize missing anything while trying to monitor the system non-trunked. If you can, load up all five channels without delay into their own, dedicated scanner. This might work since Claremore doesn't seem to have too many known talkgroups set up.

Before you do this, I suggest checking your programming for the trunked system first... make sure you have the LCNs organized correctly, etc. From the Wiki entry for LTR:

"Uniden scanners that track LTR Standard systems require that the channels be programmed in proper logical order in order to properly monitor the system. Radio Shack scanners that support LTR Standard systems do not require that the frequencies be in proper order but tracking is less efficiently accomplished."

I've never tried monitoring an LTR Standard system with an RS scanner, but it seems like tracking is most efficiently accomplished when all the LCNs are in order... something to consider.

Second question: If this works for Claremore, is there also one freq I can monitor for Lincoln County's LTR?

Sometimes, talkgroups are simulcast onto conventional repeaters, in which case a single freq can cover all the talkgroup's traffic. Other than that, I don't know of any single "back-door" freq that you can use (unless the TRS is running in a "failsoft" or "failsafe" mode)... I mean, if the TRS allowed that, there'd be no reason to have a TRS...

Hope this helps...

 

[peterjmag]

Thanks for the info!

 

[tiawah466]

I am using talkgroup ids for my scanner, I do know that several other people use single freqs on their scanner for pd and fire and they do not miss any radio traffic on the channel that they want to monitor.

 

[Chaos703]

My LTR problem healed itself.

When I originally programed the channels, I did it in the order that was specified in the database. I used the correct mode, etc. Everything was done correctly. I ran my new scanner, scanning in the LTR mode, next to my old one, programmed with the single channel in FM mode on hold, next to it. The new scanner would only stop for broadcasts that lasted for longer than 3 seconds.

But now it works fine. The only thing I did different programming wise was put a bunch of other totally unrelated freqs in the same bank (some of the new freqs in-between the LTR freqs). Can't imagine how that fixed it, but it did. Works perfectly. I'm even getting all the various TGs.

Cool, huh?

My new scanner is a Pro-97, by the way. Some of the buttons are in the wrong places, they made some very strange decisions on the dispaly and it's too brite. But it's a good scanner for the money.