Cleveland County P25 Help Please

[Cletus1029]

I’m pretty new at trunking scanners and digital scanners alike. I have had pretty good luck with some other trunking systems like VIPER, and some local stuff. However, using the RR database, I am having a hard time cracking Cleveland County’s p25 system. All I hear is a jumbled up ordeal. I’m running a whistler 1065 with my antenna on the roof of the house. Any help/advise is much appreciated. 73’s

 

[drayd48]

Its probably multisite distortion

 

[AlphaFive]

I just took a quick look in the ULS site for Cleveland, in North Carolina. Everything listed there for the County (7 license) is conventional. Are they riding someone else's system?

 

[joncleve]

The Cleveland County P25 system is simulcast. Unless you are close to one of the 4 sites (closer than any of the others) you are going to get distortion using an omni antenna. Get a directional antenna on the roof and aim it at the nearest site, Benns, Shelby, Kings Mountain or Boiling Springs. I live between Kings Mountain and Shelby and I gave up a few years ago trying to monitor them while mobile, next to impossible.

 

[Cletus1029]

Thanks all. I appreciate it very much. I’ll start looking at directional antennas, see if that helps.

 

[WeBeCinYa]

I listen to Cleveland County regularly on my Uniden 436HP with an 800mhz ducky antenna. I usually don't have any issues, unless there is a ton of traffic and the simulcast issues surface. I would say I hear 90% of the traffic without any distortion. When listening I am usually near the Shelby tower in town. I think the new SDS100 scanner is supposed to be perfect for this system to remove the simulcast issues, might check into that or try a Uniden 436HP.

 

[Cletus1029]

I live right at the Rutherford/ Cleveland county line. I suppose Benns may be my best bet. I’m looking into some directional antennas. Wonder if the yagi style antenna would still pick up my other conventional frequencies?

 

[JRush311]

is it encrypted? does it sound like this?

 

[WeBeCinYa]

is it encrypted? does it sound like this?

No, nothing on this system is encrypted. Just normal P2 distortion.