Montco East/West Dilemma.

[scanjunkie]

Actually, with the BCT15 you can NOT have both conventional and trunked in the same system (Bank). You will need to have a trunked bank for east, one for west, and one for conventional stuff.

 

[Q-ball]

Yes!!! finally, now i know im on the right rack, thats EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT!!! i have devoted my "2" bank to my uhf freqs. like plymouth twp police and some firegrounds...i have a bct15 and as far as i know, its not possible to mix, but someof those other replies were making me think i could mix uhf and trunking on the bct15.

 

[HM1529]

Yes!!! finally, now i know im on the right rack, thats EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT!!! i have devoted my "2" bank to my uhf freqs. like plymouth twp police and some firegrounds...i have a bct15 and as far as i know, its not possible to mix, but someof those other replies were making me think i could mix uhf and trunking on the bct15.

Sorry, I wasn't trying to confuse you. I did mention that I have never used the BCT15 and didn't know exactly how it worked.

 

[Q-ball]

No ben, if anything u have made me understand more, and itsnt that what this forum and website is all about, it is....thanks.

 

[Q-ball]

Has anyone one else encountered this problem, with possibly having too much in one bank? and having transmissions with pd and dispatch stepped on? just curious...did separating into another ban k help?

 

[policefreak]

Has anyone one else encountered this problem, with possibly having too much in one bank? and having transmissions with pd and dispatch stepped on? just curious...did separating into another ban k help?

Q-Ball, are you still having problems?

 

[HM1529]

Q-Ball, are you still having problems?

Just an FYI that I saw some comments on another website the other day about the fact that the BCT15 is a bit slow when scanning trunked systems. Unfortunately, I don't recall where I read that. Perhaps this has something to do with the issue you're encountering? As I said before, I've not actually used a BCT15.

 

[Q-ball]

Policefreak, no im not, its just that i wanna make sure that me separting the east and west systems into separate banks, whereas originally i had them together but kept the west mostly locked out, i wanna make sure speaparting them will completely eliminate transmissions getting stepped on, you know what i mean? Id watch it scan, and it would fluctuate between the east and west cntrl channels, and while it was scanning 866.6500(i believe thats the west cntrl channel) id miss good stuff on 867.262...but the more i think about it, i believe this will really solve this, thinning the bank out of two systems, thats all.

 

[policefreak]

While I can't guarantee that this will solve the problem 100%, just because Montgomery county is so busy, I am very sure this will go a long way toward helping you out. You see, a scanner can't properly scan a system with two control channels on it. Perhaps you have already found out that a control channel is just a steady stream of data. The scanner uses a control channel to tell it which frequency to switch to in order to hear a transmission. When there are two control channels on the same system duking it out, the scanner gets confused.
Anyway have you tried it out yet?
BTW is your BC 15 the only scanner you have?

 

[Q-ball]

Yes police freak, iam relatively new to this hobby..and since i work in the tow industry, we have them in our trucks, and that gives us headstarts to accident locations before we are formally called by that jurisdiction....or impounds for that matter, after dui's or driving while under suspension, so i got realy really into it and dont see the fever going away....i monitored this website for months before joining....so the bct15 is all i have right now, i plan on a uniden bearcat 898t in the next few months, i love the old style base radio look it has. Also, your very very right, mont. county is extremely busy...I LOVE IT!

 

[policefreak]

Yes, its a REAL shame I can't get Montgomery county from where I live. Unfortunately, that won't happen until I can get myself a really good 800 Mhz antenna. What I have started doing is when I'm at my house I monitor with two scanners. This is how I HAD my scanner set up:
Bank 0-Camden county-Fire/EMS/Police/Hwy Dept.- 20+ channels active simultaneously
Bank 1-PA conventionals-Penna. Turnpike/Chester County Fire rebroadcasts-7 channels active simultaneously
Bank 2-Dispatches (Gloucester, Burlington, Atlantic, and Bucks County) all active simultaneously
Bank 3-Burlington County West System- 15+ Talkgroups active simultaneously.
I found that by using one scanner for ONLY the police, Fire, and EMS channels in camden county which are closest to me, and another scanner for the other stuff, I miss a lot less of the important transmissions, and can unlock some other channels.
I have a BC396T for the trunking and digital stuff, and a Radioshack Pro-96 for Camden county conventionals. It really helps.

Happy Scanning {:>D

 

[Q-ball]

still the only way to monitor chester county is thru repeaters right, ltr multi net is still not able to be monitored by scanners currently on the market? Does anyone have any guesses as it if it will ever be laid out similiar to say, a montgomery county, pa system?...Ill have to do some additional research on fire, its not really a big interest of mine, but im a hoarder of freqs., heck, we all are.

 

[Q-ball]

Ben can i give you my email in a p/m and you give me a list of montgomery county fire depts that are receivable in non digital form..i did see that under lower providence PD, they re broadcast certain regions.

 

[HM1529]

Ben can i give you my email in a p/m and you give me a list of montgomery county fire depts that are receivable in non digital form..i did see that under lower providence PD, they re broadcast certain regions.

Sure, you can PM me anytime. I would point you back to page one of this thread, though, and the link to the county maps I posted. If you look at the fire region map, it shows all the station numbers in each region. You can cross reference those station numbers either here in the database or on any number of local fire company websites that list station numbers.

Essentially, if monitoring LP's crossband, you will hear anything happening in Fire Regions 2, 3, 4, and 6. This is how it was originally set up. I don't listen to the freq often enough to verify if they added Fire Regions 1 and 5 to the crossband. LP runs calls in 2, 3, 4, and 6, so that's why those regions were on the crossband originally.

Baby sleeping now...going back to bed.

 

[ctrabs74]

still the only way to monitor chester county is thru repeaters right, ltr multi net is still not able to be monitored by scanners currently on the market?

The only way to monitor the 800 system in ChesCo is to program the freqs in conventional format and in the order listed in the database. You won't pick up everything, but it's better than nothing. The fire repeaters can be spotty sometimes depending on where you are; West Fire can come in choppy from Downingtown, which could be a problem because two neighboring fire companies (Thorndale and West Bradford) operate on West Fire (Downingtown FD operates on Central).

Does anyone have any guesses as it if it will ever be laid out similiar to say, a montgomery county, pa system?

I highly doubt it. I would like to see a P25/9600 baud system in Chester County (perhaps Lancaster County can piggy-back - or vice versa - if that OpenScam thing eventually falls through), but as long as the paper pushers on Westtown Rd have their say, the MultiNet system will still be operational for the forseeable future...