Essex County needs your help

[tilt404]

I've been finding SO many errors on the RR page for Essex County/Windsor and trying to correct them. I have long heard other scanner users in Windsor say the page is full of errors, yet they do nothing to fix it. So many other people think we are to blame for the city going digital as well. I think it was just like anything else though, a matter of time and technology moving ahead. Most PD are encrypted north of here as well, not just us.

I don't know why this area is so dead on RR. I don't understand why so many errors also. Maybe someone is trying to lead people astray from listening? I really don't have any answers. Other cities are similar though. I could look at it differently and say that anyone who is into scanning, should go out and find the truth since that is what we got into scanning for isn't it?

With yesterday's outage though at Amazon which brought down RR for a while, I was surprised to see how many people were upset because they could no longer listen to scanners streaming at RR. I know all of those people aren't actively searching out new frequencies. It takes time though and maybe people are too busy these days?

Being into ham radio, I know what we say is open for all to hear. Anyone else out there as a business or other should know the same unless they buy into encryption or some other system to prevent it. Just because it is listed on RR though doesn't mean they will do that. I'm sure they know when they buy the transceiver that is it being broadcast in the open.

For all the scanner listeners out there though who know about the errors, you are doing a real disservice to the spirit of scanning. I hope more people can step up and fix errors when they see them. Or even submit something new!

 

[Forts]

Searching out the new stuff is half the fun.... Whenever I'm on the road my radio usually spends more time in search mode than it does scanning.

The London database was a mess a while ago to but we slowly got it cleaned up. It just takes a few dedicated individuals like you to do the leg work and submit the changes. The database mods here are quick to post the submissions so it usually goes pretty smoothly. One of the biggest problems you have there when it comes to searching... when you hear something new, which side of the river is it coming from? Sometimes it's pretty evident, other times not so much.

 

[tilt404]

Many of the trunk systems are missing key pieces too, but I'm glad some clues are up there. Living on the border here is a pain though like you said. Wish I could just have a setting on the scanner to stop at all borders. ; )

I'm glad I finally got unitrunker working properly tonight. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong last time. It works great now though. I wish I knew more about trunk systems though and how to find the missing cc/vc's and other info. Sometimes it doesn't matter I guess since systems in this area seem to be moving to mototrbo and other stuff like passport. It will help when I get a second scanner so I can keep the gre hooked up with unitrunker doing some work for me.

 

[tilt404]

Forts, Do you know how to save the groups in unitrunker? I imported the system groups from RR but had to add all the missing ones that aren't listed on RR but I have, yet need to ID still. When I quit the software earlier it told me things were saved, but I don't see all the extra stuff I entered by hand. Do you also know if I don't have a certain TGID in the groups showing, does that mean it won't pick it up?

 

[tilt404]

nevermind, i figure it out forts, just had to change the shortcut folder location. now its saving the logs properly and my system.

 

[Forts]

Glad you got it figured out! As far as finding missing channels and such, it's just a matter of watching and waiting. If you have UT running it won't take long for all the channels to be logged (and hopefully populated with the frequency).

 

[tilt404]

Someone else posted on the unitrunker forum about the same thing today, and unitrunker said to move run the program/shortcut from another folder other than where the program is in the programs folder for windows. Soon as I did that all the files appeared in the new folder when I started it up and the logs were saved. So all is well now. I kind of gave up on it before since the signal strength was always dropping for some reason. Now it runs well though so will be using it more.