Joplin PD activity is encrypted roughly 85-90 percent of the time. It's been that way for 3-4 years or so. That created a nightmare when we were down there in 2011 dealing with the tornado recovery. You'll occasionally hear officers transmitting in the clear. Dispatch is on "full lockdown" most of the time. Fire and Medical, as someone else mentioned, is in the clear.
I've driven through Joplin on IH44 & heard nothing on Joplin PD. Why doesn't the RR DB reflect which of the PD channels are mostly encrypted? I see several talk groups where the "E" is present; however, if there are more, don't they need to be added?
load the ksics system. I forgot the name of the site in Cherokee county.
mshp uses moswin. the closest tower from Joplin is the Granby tower. u should be able to monitor that site from Joplin without any problem. jasper county has just gone to a digital mode that cannot be monitored with any scanners.
I understand not wanting to listen to kansas but do not underestimate the need to have that loaded considering our location. they do an outstanding job during severe weather.
Why not try to build the P25 system on the scanner to eliminate any database issues.....
Joplin Public Safety (P25) Trunking System, Joplin, Missouri - Scanner Frequencies
Enter the two control channels (Red & Blue) then do a ID search, or enter TGIDs from RR that are PD.
Hmmm... are you sure it's not 100% of the time? The reason I ask is because if there is a little I can hear, I should be hearing it, unless it's a firmware problem which Uniden suggested it *could* be, just to rule out other possibilities. I never hear anything at all, except for Fire & Medical on the P25 system.
If your in Joplin you may have luck with monitoring the KSCIS tower in Cherokee County and the MOSWIN tower in Granby.
The KSICS tower is really busy. You can listen to Labbette County, Cherokee County, KSHP, among other agencies.
You are getting Joplin Fire and EMS aren't you?
Well that sounds like a good idea if I could just figure out how to do it. I haven't made it very far in the manual yet and now that I know Joplin's system is encrypted (being able to listen to local Joplin calls was the whole reason I bought the radio), I'm thinking I may just return it. Now I find out Jasper county went to an encrypted sytem too. I dunno... I'll have to think about it. In any event, I haven't made it that far in the manual yet re building a P25 system.
Hmmm... are you sure it's not 100% of the time? The reason I ask is because if there is a little I can hear, I should be hearing it, unless it's a firmware problem which Uniden suggested it *could* be, just to rule out other possibilities. I never hear anything at all, except for Fire & Medical on the P25 system.
Just fyi... I finally did hear a couple calls from Joplin PD just a few minutes ago.
If the whole system is supposed to be encrypted, I wonder how a few calls slip though??
