I am getting the control channel with pleanty of signal and that is not the issue.
The signal strength meter on your scanner is not a reliable indicator of your ability to decode a digital signal.
You live within about five miles of about a dozen analog and digital television transmitters. Anyone of them could be putting out a harmonic or a spur strong enough to overload your scanner. You may have a full-scale signal on your scanner, but that doesn't mean there's enough of a clean digital signal for your scanner to decode.
I live east of the MECA tower at 7300 Lafayette Road and I also live north of the Tower at Butler University.
MECA is a simulcast system. Always has been. When the original analog system was rolled out, there was an atomic time reference located at Willard Park. The signal from that reference was transmitted via microwave around to the various towers. The time reference was used to synchronize the transmitters so users who were equidistant between towers would not experience "heterodyning" between the two signals.
The MECA digital system is also simulcast, but the synchronization of the transmitters is being done using time signals from the GPS satellites. With a digital system, the synchronization of the transmitters is
critical. Otherwise, users experience garbled voices. And because you are almost equidistant between two towers, the signals from those two towers are reaching your scanner with just enough offset to cause huge decode problems if the synchronization is not absolutely perfect.
You have a BCD396T, don't you? If so, walk around your neighborhood while monitoring the system. I think you'll find that the coverage in your area is very spotty. Find a location where the system sounds pretty lousy. Move a few feet and see if it sounds better or worse. That's what I experienced when I drove around your part of town yesterday.
It's possible that the Motorola and MECA technicians still have some tweaking to do on the simulcasting. If you can't find a way to improve your reception in the next few days, give it a month and try again. I know that when the SAFE-T tower in Danville was brought on-line, I had trouble receiving it the P25 digital talkgroups. Over time, the reception got much better. No system as complex as these is perfect right out of the box.
Tim, it may seem like I'm giving you a hard time. Maybe I am. But we are all trying to make useful suggestions and trying to help you understand how to improve your reception.