Columbus Ohio Police Question

[lancer123]

Hello,

I am new to scanners and have the Home Patrol Scanner. I like to listen to the Columbus Police channels. My question: Are all the channels listed within the Sentinel software which the officers use? Often times I hear a transmission from an officer indicating that he/she is going to channel xyz for a few minutes. I can't seem to find the channel to continue hearing the action. I have every channel for Columbus Police programmed and Service activated which the software offers. Are there some channels the police use are scanners can't pic up?

Thanks in advance,

Lance

 

[W8RMH]

Currently all Columbus channels can be received on an analog trunk-tracker scanner. Each zone has "back" channels A thru E and there are quite a number of other channels.

Look at the system page and compare the talk groups to the HP info. I have noticed that the HP alpha tags are different than the RR database tags. (you can match up the talk group numbers).

On my XT scanners I just program in everything and lockout all but the dispatch, traffic, and SWAT channels. Then if someone changes channels I just hold on that channel. I also program in the wildcard ( i0 ), which allows me to listen to private calls.