Looking for advice. No longer able to receive FRES OPS 3 Suffolk county

[dave3825]

FRES ops 3 and all other tg's labeled FRES are on site 4 (800) and may be on any other 800mhz sites. There are a few FRES tg's on smartzone that are not in use yet on P25. Fres Paging tg's were on 700mhz (TDMA) site 3 a while back and have not been used since.

Where are you located in Suffolk?

 

[Flywithnelson]

FRES ops 3 and all other tg's labeled FRES are on site 4 (800) and may be on any other 800mhz sites. There are a few FRES tg's on smartzone that are not in use yet on P25. Fres Paging tg's were on 700mhz (TDMA) site 3 a while back and have not been used since.

Where are you located in Suffolk?

I’m in Holtsville. I’m assuming FRES moved ops 3 to P25 that’s why I can’t pick it up on my bct15

 

[dave3825]

Yes, they are on site 4, and I believe 6. They might also be on Port Jeff site but I can't confirm.

 

[Flywithnelson]

going to try the SDR route also!

 

[Flywithnelson]

Thank you for all your help! It’s working! Loud and clear

 

[Machria]

Thank you for all your help! It’s working! Loud and clear

So, what do you have working now?

 

[Machria]

Yes, they are on site 4, and I believe 6. They might also be on Port Jeff site but I can't confirm.

4 and 6? I dont recall 6 sites on the 800 system?

 

[GTR8000]

4 and 6? I dont recall 6 sites on the 800 system?

Perhaps you missed the part where he stated that the talkgroups are active on the P25 system now.

 

[Machria]

Perhaps you missed the part where he stated that the talkgroups are active on the P25 system now.

;-)

 

[Flywithnelson]

Not to revive an old thread. But has this changed? I don't see any changes to the RR database. I stopped receiving. It was working great since december!

 

[dave3825]

has this changed?

I stopped receiving

You stopped receiving what? The P25 or the old smartzone? Both systems are up and running just less agencies on smartzone.

 

[Flywithnelson]

The P25. I was picking up FRES ops 3 167 on site 4 great since December but I don’t hear anything anymore.

 

[dave3825]

P25. I was picking up FRES ops 3 167 on site 4 great since December but I don’t hear anything anymore.

Do you receive other tg's on site 4? All Fres Ops tg's are active on site 4.

 

[Flywithnelson]

Do you receive other tg's on site 4? All Fres Ops tg's are active on site 4.

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Actually now that I’ve got it scanning I don’t think I’m getting anything off site 4. I’m using the BCD996P2 not sure if that matters. I know it does not simulcast well.
What software are you using from that screenshot. I like that it records the last hit

 

[dave3825]

Using Unitrunker (pictured) and SDRTrunk. Could be simulcast. Could also be foliage attenuation. There are leaves on the trees now. Verify your programming is still correct. Make sure you have these 4 (pretty sure that scanner does control channel only)

851.1625
851.2375
852.425 (active control channel right now)
852.675

 

[Flywithnelson]

I got a lot in there should I only put the control channels in?
This is what I have:
851.08750
851.16250
851.23750
852.42500
852.67500
852.73750
852.8500
852.92500
853.12500
853.22500
853.37500
853.52500

I did the RR import using free scan around December

 

[Flywithnelson]

I got a lot in there should I only put the control channels in?
This is what I have:
851.08750
851.16250
851.23750
852.42500
852.67500
852.73750
852.8500
852.92500
853.12500
853.22500
853.37500
853.52500

I did the RR import using free scan around December

If it helps my antenna is above the tree line.

 

[dave3825]

If it was working with all control and voice freqs, you could leave them in. Do you have the antenna that came with it to try? If you throw the scanner in the car and drive around, do you receive site 4? If it works either of those ways I would start looking at the coax and antenna.

 

[tvengr]

Actually now that I’ve got it scanning I don’t think I’m getting anything off site 4. I’m using the BCD996P2 not sure if that matters. I know it does not simulcast well.

Here is a FreeSCAN Suffolk County P25 trunked system file for you to try. It has all 7 sites which you can toggle on and off individually using quick keys by pressing 1 thru 7 on the scanner keypad. You will be able to listen to the 800 MHz site by itself. The zipped file is your FreeSCAN programming file. The second PDF file will answer all of your questions about using quick keys. Save the attached zipped file to your computer and extract. Open the extracted file with FreeSCAN and Upload Programming. Quick keys as follows:

SYSTEM QUICK KEYS:
1. 700 East Simul (Site)
2. 700 West Simul (Site)
3. 800 Simulcast (Site)
4. First Precinct (Site)
5. Huntington (Site)
6. Montauk (Site)
7. Port Jefferson (Site)
GROUP QUICK KEYS:
1. SuffCo Services
2. SuffCo Transit
3. SuffCo Interop
4. SuffCo Emerg Ops
5. SuffCo Fire/Resc
5. SuffCo Fire West
5. SuffCo Fire Cent
5. SuffCo Fire East
5. SuffCo Loc Fire
6. SuffCo MEDCOM
7. SuffCo Sheriff
7. SuffCo Police
7. SuffCo Local PD
8. New York State
9. Farmingdale Coll
9. Stony Brook Univ
9. SuffCo Comm Coll