NO LONGER HEARING TRAFFIC FOR THOMAS COUNTY AGENCIES
I am troubleshooting my inability to pickup any KSICS traffic for my local police & sheriff (Talkgroup 1352), and EMS that I noticed yesterday (Feb 1) on both my Homepatrol and BCD325P2 scanners. I also fired up my RTL dongle and am not getting any traffic locally. I realize today is Sunday and it may be a really quite day for the first responders.
On Friday (1-31) I heard police units were being called to the Station for radio reprogramming. Saturday evening I heard no police radio traffic. I thought is that maybe the police went encrypted. However, on my RTL dongle SDRtrunk software I can see in the Events list that neighboring County law enforcement agencies (that have been encrypted for many months) are transmitting and encrypted. So I assume my local police would also show up in that Events list if they have started doing encrypted traffic. I checked the RR Database to see if the control channel has changed. I did noticed the Colby Tower antenna site had a change in the license on January 15 but if I'm reading the FCC database correctly, it was just a change to the contact name and email change.
I have my Homepatrol programmed to monitor the Halford Tower site (9 miles from me) and the 325P2 monitors the Colby Tower site (3 miles from me) which are both located in Thomas County. I am picking up the KHP traffic on the Halford Tower so I assume that means the tower control channel has not changed.
I did set my 325P2 to "ID Search" rather than "ID Scan" which, as I understand this radio, will play any Talkgroup it hears on the Tower Site.
I am troubleshooting my inability to pickup any KSICS traffic for my local police & sheriff (Talkgroup 1352), and EMS that I noticed yesterday (Feb 1) on both my Homepatrol and BCD325P2 scanners. I also fired up my RTL dongle and am not getting any traffic locally. I realize today is Sunday and it may be a really quite day for the first responders.
On Friday (1-31) I heard police units were being called to the Station for radio reprogramming. Saturday evening I heard no police radio traffic. I thought is that maybe the police went encrypted. However, on my RTL dongle SDRtrunk software I can see in the Events list that neighboring County law enforcement agencies (that have been encrypted for many months) are transmitting and encrypted. So I assume my local police would also show up in that Events list if they have started doing encrypted traffic. I checked the RR Database to see if the control channel has changed. I did noticed the Colby Tower antenna site had a change in the license on January 15 but if I'm reading the FCC database correctly, it was just a change to the contact name and email change.
I have my Homepatrol programmed to monitor the Halford Tower site (9 miles from me) and the 325P2 monitors the Colby Tower site (3 miles from me) which are both located in Thomas County. I am picking up the KHP traffic on the Halford Tower so I assume that means the tower control channel has not changed.
I did set my 325P2 to "ID Search" rather than "ID Scan" which, as I understand this radio, will play any Talkgroup it hears on the Tower Site.
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