Dakota County oddly quiet

[W5NNV]

Am I the only person not hearing very much from Dakota County ?

I have every TGID listed for Dakota County programmed in one of my Favorites in the Uniden 536HP. Current data base from Sentinel software is loaded. The firmware is updated. I am not using any quick keys for my Favorites or systems. No improper "avoids" are in use. 20 other Favorites set up in my scanner work fine. The ARMER system site that I have programmed for Favorite named "Dakota" is the Washington-Dakota East. Four bars signal strength consistently here all over St Paul.

It seems impossible, to cite an easy example, that Eagan Police Department would have only ONE transmission today during a six-hour period of continuous monitoring by me starting around 9 am. I hear the Dakota County sheriff dispatchers all day long on Law 1, Law 2, and Law 3. I hear most all fire calls and EMS in Dakota County. I never hear Burnsville PD, Hasting PD, or the other cities. Very odd.

I've used this scanner for more than 2 years and cannot imagine what I have done wrong.

Help please ?

 

[ofd8001]

Any chance they may have switched the control channel frequency to one not programmed in your scanner?

 

[johnmoe1]

The control channel did change for a while today.

07/05 10:37:27 Changing control frequency for Dakota from 853562500 to 853312500
07/05 10:58:15 Changing control frequency for Dakota from 853312500 to 853562500
07/05 12:48:11 Changing control frequency for Dakota from 853562500 to 853312500
07/05 13:21:07 Changing control frequency for Dakota from 853312500 to 853562500

With regard to Eagan, do you mean talkgroup 4348? There were a bunch of transmissions between 9 and 3. Lots between 2 pm and 2:30.

Wait. "The ARMER system site that I have programmed for Favorite named "Dakota" is the Washington-Dakota East" Are you not listening to the Dakota site? Is Washington-Dakota East an official name for this site? If not, we should change the Database to just Washington. Most Dakota traffic is NOT on the Washington site.

 

[1fount1]

You may have to add the site "Dakota Co Simulcast"