I am trying to monitor our county road commission on DMR and I was wondering how I would program that. Here is the info:
CC 14
TG 34000
SL 1
I am using a TYT MD380
CC 14
TG 34000
SL 1
I am using a TYT MD380
I do have a VHF MD380.....Unless you bought a VHF version of the 380, you are out of luck. The majority of MD 380 sales are UHF models (400 to 480Mhz) as there are very few VHF repeaters in use by hams.
Create a Group Call contact with the number 34000. Make sure it doesn't already exist or you'll have problems. Otherwise, it would be shared/confused with the HAM talkgroups.
Create a digital channel with the aformentioned frequency, color code and timeslot.
Create a new zone if you'd like or place the new channel in to an existing zone.
Upload the codeplug and start monitoring that talkgroup
All this assumes you have a VHF MD380 and standard firmware. If the frequency/group you want to monitor is encrypted or trunked, monitoring could be a problem with that radio.
I hope this helps. (and I hope I didn't miss anything. I haven't programmed my MD380 in a while)
Maybe there is some encryption going on. I'm not sure how the MD380 would process that. It might just mute. Another thought is that there is more than one talkgroup being used on that frequency and your seeing traffic but the programmed talkgroup isn't being used to "unsquelch" the radio. How did you obtain the TG, CC and Slot information?
I have all that in, I can see sig on the meter but nothing is coming thru. The repeater is only a couple miles away.
The info is on RR website under Ionia County Michigan. I'm not sure how many TG's they have. I'll have to do more research...
Their frequency was recently changed on 1-16-17, supposed to have been they are in a lease agreement with crouch comm.
They have their own license and it was listed in the database prior to the change as 159.105
Maybe try that one and see if that is actually what they use, put it in TG search mode and if they are using the previous frequency we had, let us know so we can get it corrected!
ULS License - Public Safety Pool, Conventional License - KQB301 - IONIA, COUNTY OF ROAD COMMISSION - Frequencies Summary
n8mrc, I've run in to a similar problem in my area trying to monitor a DMR frequency with my DMR capable scanner. The signal strength meter on my scanner goes full bars but I hear no sound. I've monitored the same frequency simultaneously with an older scanner. On the older one I hear "digital hash" whenever the DMR scanner signal meter goes active. I too received the information from RR. I'm wondering if the frequency I have is a control channel only. Perhaps we have the same issue.
Does anyone know how DMR trunking works? Does it use a dedicated control channel?