MPSCS setup

[Radioguy789]

Hello, I am from Ontario, will be in Sault Ste Marie Ontario on Thursday and will have my BCD996P2 with me and just wondering what all I need to enter into it, to monitor this system, other than the 800 MHz Trunking Freq's.

Let me know.

Thanks

 

[drdispatch]

You'll want the talkgroups for Chippewa County and Michigan State Police District 8. You may also want the talkgroups for the Soo Locks. Those are listed on the MPSCS page under "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers".
As far as towers go, I would suggest the Sault Ste. Marie and Sugar Island sites, and *maybe* the Raco site.
If you want to listen to fire & EMS, you'll need some conventional frequencies from this page:

Chippewa County, Michigan (MI) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference for Chippewa County, Michigan (MI)

www.radioreference.com

 

[Radioguy789]

Ok thanks.

And I was looking at how to set it up in my scanner like do I just enter in the 2 main control channels for this system or do I need to enter in the voice channels as well. And any other stuff to enter in like a band plan similar to what we use here for Fleetnet in Ontario or nothing like that. And do I enter it in as a P25 standard Trunking system.

 

[drdispatch]

Are you using the Sentinel software? If so, you can append the departments and talkgroups you want into a Favorites List. You then can avoid or delete the sites you don't need. You don't have to concern yourself with bandplan or anything like that, because the software takes care of that.
And yes, MPSCS is a P25 system.

 

[Radioguy789]

Ok and I am using ARC XT PRO to program my BCD996P2.

So I just enter in everything manually, into the program.

So just need to know how to set it up using this software

 

[smithken]

Are you using the Sentinel software? If so, you can append the departments and talkgroups you want into a Favorites List. You then can avoid or delete the sites you don't need. You don't have to concern yourself with bandplan or anything like that, because the software takes care of that.
And yes, MPSCS is a P25 system.

As far as I know Sentinel doesn't work with a BCD996P2.

 

[smithken]

Ok and I am using ARC XT PRO to program my BCD996P2.

So I just enter in everything manually, into the program.

So just need to know how to set it up using this software

For MPSCS you just need to program the primary and secondary frequencies for the site(s) you are monitoring.

 

[Radioguy789]

Ok thanks. So don’t need to enter in the voice channels, just the main & alternate control channel(s) and set it as P25 Standard and that is it, then put it in ID Search mode and let the scanner do the rest.

 

[drdispatch]

As far as I know Sentinel doesn't work with a BCD996P2.

Yeah, my bad. For some reason I had the 436/SDS in my head.

 

[Radioguy789]

Ok thanks