Well, I'm sitting deep in Lake County so I'm fairly certain that I am using a Lake County tower.
I'll go back to basics and resetup the rig and see if I can figure out what went wrong while in storage.
John,
To receive Lake County your scanner should be programmed as a
P25 Trunk System.
Here are the
Control and
Alternate Trunk Frequencies you should have programmed:
855.8625, 860.7625, 860.8125, 860.8625.
There are
Four Talkgroup categories listed for Lake County.
Common Talkgroups,
Fire/EMS/Hospital Talkgroups,
Law Talkgroups and
Public Works Talkgroups. For a rough total of
90 Talkgroups. So there are plenty of things you should be hearing.
To view the
Talkgroup listings click on
Database (top of this screen), you'll get a US Map. Click on
Ohio, next click on
Lake County. Scroll to the bottom of the page, you will see radio systems listed. Scroll down to
MARCS. Once in MARCS scroll down to the
Talkgroup section and then scroll down to
Lake County. You will see the
Four Talkgroup Categories and the 90 Talkgroups.
Now, on another topic. Since you posted that you are in Lake County, there is another possible issue. The MARCS Lake County system is a Simulcast System. Which means the four towers act as one site. In other words they act as a single antenna, each site sends the same radio traffic. If your scanner is receiving the same information from multiple towers, your scanner is receiving each signal out of sync. The most common results are garbled or dropout reception. The only scanners designed to handle Simulcast are the Uniden SDS-100 and SDS-200.
So if you end up having a Simulcast issue, that's another post.
Hope the above helps.