Have you programmed other sites for Franklin County? As I understand it, the site setup for the area is rather complex. Columbus City will only have Columbus on it, Franklin County will have Franklin County on it, and Columbus MARCS will have all others on it.
The OP is in Nebraska, not Ohio. He is referring to
Platte County, which is where
Columbus, Nebraska is located, not Franklin County in Ohio, the location of Columbus Ohio.
MARCS-IP is not a Phase 2 system and therefore this would not apply. A Phase 2 system also does not guarentee that the talkgroup is operating in the TDMA (Phase 2) mode which is where a Phase 1 scanner would stop working.
I believe the system the OP is referring to is he
Nebraska State Radio System Trunking System, Statewide, Nebraska - Scanner Frequencies, in his state, not MARCS IP, which is in Ohio.
RS Pro 197 will not pick up any phase 2 systems. Are you sure you programed your Pro197 the right way to pick up the SO office? what scanner software are you using to program your radio ?
The
system in question, the state system for Nebraska, is a P25 Phase I system, not Phase II.
Recently the police department (Columbus NE) and the Platte County Sheriff's Dept Platte County NE) upgraded to P25 system. The talk group (51000) now picks up the CPD but I cannot hear the Sheriff's Dept. (both depts share). I have the conventional codes selected as well (just in case). Trunking system P25 Auto Nebraska State. i'm still rather new at this but learned enuf from a lot of mistakes. I have a RS Pro 197 (that works quite well). Any constructive assistance appreciated.
Looking at your
statewide system, the only talkgroup ID listed for your county (at least for now) is TGID 51000. You indicate that you are hearing the S.O. on that. While they might also handle dispatching for Columbus, whether full time, or part time, that is not indicated as such in the database. If you can verify that they are sharing dispatch duties, then please submit that to the database so an update can be made.
For your city, Columbus, NE, the database still shows the city PD dispatch on 154.725, as P25 (conventional, not trunked), NAC 290. Have you programmed that, and still not hearing anything on it?
If you can verify that the city has also moved to state system, perhaps they are using a different talkgroup than 51000. You might try adding a wild card to the system, to see if there are additional talkgroups that have not been submitted to update the database.
