Hartford EDACS System

[HarryWilly]

I use a BCT-15 and I have been having difficulty tuning in to the Hartford EDACS system (specifically the fire talkgroups). I am just outside the city limits, so theoretically it should work, and I don't get the "Searching For Control Channel" errors. I programmed it using BcTool, I may do it again manually for good measure. I assume reception shouldn't be an issue in general because I can pick up West Hartford from as far as New Haven County.

Has anyone else had problems?

 

[georged4997]

i just programed it into my scanner the other day. im not hearing anything. im in new london county.
im using a 785 with the digital chip in my house. its a outside antenna , 6ft above the roof . the
state police come in great. i just think im to far away to pick them up. i down loaded everything from rr.
im using arc250. high band antenna , 60ft up with 8x as the cable.

 

[andy404ns]

I use a BCT-15 and I have been having difficulty tuning in to the Hartford EDACS system (specifically the fire talkgroups). I am just outside the city limits, so theoretically it should work, and I don't get the "Searching For Control Channel" errors. I programmed it using BcTool, I may do it again manually for good measure. I assume reception shouldn't be an issue in general because I can pick up West Hartford from as far as New Haven County.

Has anyone else had problems?

I've got the BCT15 UASD files if you want them. I stopped receiving them at one point and realized that I had somehow put a 6 instead of an 8 in part of one of the frequencies.

By the way, I'm receiving everything on their system crystal clear on 1-1-09 at 01:19 in Wethersfield

 

[HarryWilly]

Thought they did something to the system, turns out when I updated the programming information, the LCNs were somehow modified and rendered the system unable to be monitored.

Whoops.. Next time I do it, I am going to have to add the site manually

 

[PJH]

i just programed it into my scanner the other day. im not hearing anything. im in new london county.
im using a 785 with the digital chip in my house. its a outside antenna , 6ft above the roof . the
state police come in great. i just think im to far away to pick them up. i down loaded everything from rr.
im using arc250. high band antenna , 60ft up with 8x as the cable.

The Hartford system doesn't reach terribly far outside of the city. When I lived about 10 exits north of the city, it came in depending on the weater/TOD/and CC. I would say its safe to say that you will most likely never hear if based on your location.

 

[georged4997]

thankyou. i didnt think i would hear them. some how i wish all these towns and cities didnt go to
digital. i still like to program the analog frequencies in and loved the crystal controled radios years
ago. if i didnt pick something up years ago, i knew most likely it was my antenna. now with digital
you dont know if your close enough or you programed the radio wrong.

 

[PJH]

As far as scanners are concered, there is nothing different in programming a digital channel than an analog channel. If you screw up entering the freq, well, neither are going to work very well.

 

[HarryWilly]

It is either hit or miss for me, but where I am 99% of the time it is absolutely great. I have the simulcast for when I am outside of the county, but listening to the trunked system vs. the simulcast when they are both in close range, the trunked system is much clearer, I can flip to the incident channels, the only problem is that it slows down scanning a bit when it is going through the system.

 

[garcia26]

hey guys anyone knows if hartford is going digital?????

 

[awasser1]

Doubt it...They don't even have money to collect the garbage.

hey guys anyone knows if hartford is going digital?????