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[KeithJoseph]

I paid for the NXDN upgrade but yet I cannot get it to work on my scanner how do I make it work.436hp. Taylor electric. Abilene,tx

 

[fxdscon]

I paid for the NXDN upgrade but yet I cannot get it to work on my scanner how do I make it work.436hp. Taylor electric. Abilene,tx

“Can not get it to work”..... really doesn’t give us much to go on, so let’s start from the top.

Did you get the digital key from Uniden when you paid for the NXDN upgrade?

Does your scanner have the latest firmware installed?

Were you able to successfully enter the digital key into the scanner through the menu system.

Did the scanner show that it accepted the key?

If those steps were successful, then let us know, very specifically, what you have done after that. Exactly where are you encountering a problem?

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[KeithJoseph]

Yes to all. But I'm still not hearing anything from Taylor electric.

 

[nd5y]

The database may have incomplete information for that system.
I think I was the one who originally submitted it years ago and I don't think I got all the LCNs.
They may have made changes since then. One of the licenses listed expired in 2016 and nobody updated the db with the new one.

They probably don't talk very often.
Most radio traffic will probably be after severe storms when they have to fix a lot of stuff.
Program all the frequencies on the FCC licenses as NFM conventional and see if you hear data bursts or digital noise or anything at all.

FCC Callsign WQYW909 (TAYLOR ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC.)

FCC Callsign WQYW909 (TAYLOR ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC.)

www.radioreference.com

FCC Callsign WQQB598 (TAYLOR ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC)

FCC Callsign WQQB598 (TAYLOR ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC)

www.radioreference.com

 

[ScubaJungle]

Are you getting a 'NXDN" on the bottom right of the screen? If not, you may not have sufficient signal / or there may not be any transmission to hear

 

[KeithJoseph]

All of the frequencies? Holy crap it's a lot

 

[KeithJoseph]

Are you getting a 'NXDN" on the bottom right of the screen? If not, you may not have sufficient signal / or there may not be any transmission to hear

Negative. No nxdn. and I know there is a building with an antenna not far from where I live for Taylor electric

 

[ScubaJungle]

If you're not getting a "NXDN", then it's either you have no signal, or you don't have the control channel.
My guess, looking at the database (since it is severely lacking of frequencies and TGs for this system), is that the current control channel is not listed. Youll have to scan through that frequency range and try to find the current control channel if you don't have an SDR. Once you find it, youll need to note the correct RAN and then add it to the system in your scanner.

 

[nd5y]

All of the frequencies? Holy crap it's a lot

Then don't do it. I will no longer help.

 

[KeithJoseph]

Then don't do it. I will no longer help.

Attitude much?

 

[nd5y]

If you're not getting a "NXDN", then it's either you have no signal, or you don't have the control channel.

Unless they changed in the past few years it's a Type D iDAS system. There is no control channel.
The channels that are actually used have a 1/2 second data burst every 3 seconds.
A few years ago it did not appear that all of the licensed channels were in use.

 

[ScubaJungle]

If they dont have a control channel, then you wont be getting the 'NXDN" unless:
theres a transmission
the scanner catches the data burst - but Ive found that with NXDN, it often misses them or is unable to catch them as with cap+, I guess due to the tiny bandwith

 

[KeithJoseph]

Ok.