Hello everybody Im currently seeking help to set up a radio police scanner going for my local area as the one that already exists does not provide good coverage at all it cuts out too much & it’s annoying
I just spent some time listening to
Mesa County and Grand Junction Police, Fire and EMS and did not detect any cutting out or any other problems. The site had 108 folks listening in so it must not to be too bad.
There are 8 towers in Mesa county, probably because of the terrain of the area, so it is pretty well covered tower wise. Perhaps the current feed needs a better antenna and when receiving on a distant tower there are some issues with reception. But I didn't hear any.
In any case as
@scanlist stated, you are looking at $500 to $750 for a P25 scanner, then up to $200 for a good antenna.
You could use sdrs to stream the system, it would take 4 RTL-SDRs or Noolec at around $38 a piece, plus a good antenna (not a discone), with a good splitter to hook antenna to the sdrs. Or an Airspy that would cover 10Mhz at around $200. Plus at least a quad core computer with 12 gigs of memory. The SDRTrunk software is free.
I would suggest clicking on the Report a Problem link on the
Mesa County and Grand Junction Police, Fire and EMS site and tell the owner what you are experiencing and see if he can do anything to improve the problems you are having.
And since there is already a couple of feeds on Broacastify for that area, you may not get approved for a new feed.