D.c.

[patrolman123]

I had the opprotunity to visit D.C. for the Orioles game today. I took along my 396 and to my astonishment I couldn't pick up anything from D.C. What could be the problem?? Can someone help me verify that the frequencies are correct????? Is fire, EMS and police all under the same system???

 

[ka3jjz]

This belongs in the DC forum, but yes, they are all in the same system - but it needs a special offset setup, and much of it is digital. If you used the RRDB, and used the offsets, you should have been fine. AFAIK there's a couple of recently-added channels, and some notes in the DC forum about the required offsets 73s Mike

 

[dtscho]

Hi patrolman,

It's all the same "system," but you'll actually need to program two systems into the 396 to hear police and fire. MPD uses a 460 MHz system, and DC Fire uses an 850 MHz system. The two systems are linked, so occasionally you'll see an MPD talkgroup on the Fire system, and vice-versa.

Dave