Help with Pro-2055

[RSHWNBE]

Is there a trick to pulling San Jose PD's frequencies? I'm new to the scanning world and programed the listed frequencies in correctly yet all of them have no audio. I find it hard to believe that the city's police department is that bored and has no radio traffic.

 

[1979lee]

I looked them up in the database and the 2055 should pick thoses freqs up quite well,
is it just sjpd or the 2055 is silent on all freqs?

San Jose, City of
Police
Frequency Input License Type Tone CH Description Mode
460.15000 465.15000 KNNR378 RM 131.8 PL SJ1 Dist R, D & V (North & Airport) FM
460.27500 465.27500 KNNR378 RM 162.2 PL SJ2 Dist N & F (West) FM
460.20000 465.20000 KMA359 RM 136.5 PL SJ3 Dist M & W (North East) FM
460.42500 465.42500 KMA359 RM 167.9 PL SJ4 Dist C & P South East) FM
460.40000 465.40000 KMA359 RM 146.2 PL SJ5 Dist E, K Downtown) FM
460.32500 465.32500 KMA359 RM 146.2 PL SJ6 Dist L & S Central) FM
460.47500 465.47500 KMA359 RM 136.5 PL SJ7 Dist A & T South West) FM
460.52500 465.52500 KMA359 RM 179.9 PL SJ8 Dist X & Y South East) FM
460.10000 465.10000 KMA359 RM 179.9 PL SJ9 Citywide Common FM
460.02500 179.9 PL SJ10 BAYMACS - UHF 460 FM
460.05000 465.05000 WNVD228 RM 110.9 PL SJ11 Citywide Common FM
460.02500 M SJ12 BAYMACS - Simplex FM
460.17500 WPJP624 M 186.2 PL SJ13 Tactical/Car-to-car FM
460.30000 WPJP624 M 203.5 PL SJ14 Tactical/Car-to-car FM
460.37500 WPJP624 M 203.5 PL SJ15 Tactical/Car-to-car FM
460.10000 WNVD228 M 136.5 PL SJ16 Tactical/Car-to-car FM
453.65000 458.65000 WPLZ268 RM SJ17 street crimes, MERGE, etc. APCO-25
460.36250 110.9 PL SJ18 Special Events FM
460.25000 465.25000 WPMN569 RM 141.3 PL SJ19 NCI FM

 

[RSHWNBE]

Just the SJPD freq's. I haven't seen some of those frequencies before though, so I'll have to try some of them tonight.

 

[gmclam]

Last time I was in the San Jose area, about 6 months ago, I definitely heard radio traffic on those UHF frequencies.

I'd bet their calls are computer dispatched anyway.

Good luck!

 

[hotdjdave]

Try switching WFM and NFM. Sometimes one or the other does not allow you to hear traffic. It may be FM and NFM.

 

[RSHWNBE]

Ok, how do I do that?

 

[RSHWNBE]

All those 460 frequencies aren't pulling in anything.

 

[RSHWNBE]

Neither are the 465's. What am I doing wrong here?

 

[hotdjdave]

Ok, how do I do that?

I am not sure on your radio. You may want to ask in the Radio Shack Scanners forum. I haven't owned a RatShack scanner in over 18 years.

On my Uniden BCD396T, the modulation (Auto, AM, FM, WFM, NFM) is chosen when programing the frequency into the radio (either by hand or via software). Many scanners have a default modulation (or "Auto") based upon the band (e.g. a frequency of 118.300 MHz would default to the AM band, etc.). For each channel on my scanner (when put on "Hold"), I can adjust the modulation or I can go through each system and change the modulation for each channel. It is much easier to do via the software (less tedious).

 

[RSHWNBE]

It's not a trunking system, is it?

 

[RSHWNBE]

Still waiting to see if someone can help with this. I'm now programming with Win97 if that helps!

 

[gmclam]

Pro-97

LOL. I am sitting here hand programming a PRO-97 I just got. The freqs listed above for San Jose look correct. Here's a link to the data: http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=RR&aid=696

What is it specifically you need help with?

 

[RSHWNBE]

Well, here's what I did. I entered the frequencies and changed the band to CT and added the CT frequencies in the repective blocks. Still, no signals whatsoever. Am I entering this correctly? Or is it something else?

 

[gmclam]

What you should do FIRST is set each channel to FM and make sure the bank is OPEN. Setting the freqs to CT will only keep you from hearing stuff that is not the tone freq you've entered. Once you get it so that you are receiving, then you can go back and set up the CT freqs/etc.