Need Some Help, Screwed Up Most Likely

[bigcam406]

Hey folks. I just reprogrammed LMRN to my BCD 325P2, and unfortunately it's not receiving anything. I'm thinking I missed something, as it seems it is picking up the control channel from the Whitby site, but no talk groups or voice channels. Is this a band plan issue? Thanks in advance.

 

[mciupa]

Don't worry, give this a try:

I use this plan for a BCD 325P2

Band Plan 0: 136.00500/7.50
Band Plan 1: 136.00500/7.50
Band Plan 2: 136.00500/7.50
Band Plan 3: 136.00500/7.50
Band Plan 4: 136.00500/7.50
Band Plan 5: 136.00500/7.50
Band Plan 6: 136.00500/7.50
Band Plan 7: 136.00500/7.50
Band Plan 8: --------/----
Band Plan 9: --------/----
Band Plan A: --------/----
Band Plan B: --------/----
Band Plan C: 769.00000/6.25
Band Plan D: 769.00000/6.25
Band Plan E: 851.06250/6.25
Band Plan F: 851.06250/6.25

Use at least Band Plan 0 and Band Plan 1 to test it.

 

[bigcam406]

Thank-you so much. I will give it a try.
Much appreciated.

 

[bigcam406]

Well I used the band plan and still no go. When I set the system on Hold and use the control channel, it picks up all the TGID's, but with no voice. I think I missed something or it's something simple that I omitted.

 

[bigcam406]

Having seen the other MTO thread, it's apparent that maybe I didn't screw up at all. Definitely a head scratcher for sure.

 

[gary123]

Try forcing the bandplan for the site using sentinel.



The scanner should hold this bandplan until it sees a update from the Controller. Since there is no bandplan being sent the manually entered one should stay in memory.

 

[bigcam406]

Thanks for the info. I will try it.
Makes you wonder why the tower isn't providing a band plan, as I previously stated earlier, this system was fine until early December, then nothing. Makes me wonder....

 

[gary123]

It is strange. I doubt it's so they can exploit a FW issue in scanners. LOL a $30 will track and a $1000 scanner will not. It also appears that only a few sites are not sending the plan. Everything in western ont has the plan active. I wonder if it has something to do with Zone 2 being integrated. LMRN is not like FleetNet so moving from Zone 1 to 2 should not have any difficulties.

 

[bigcam406]

Well, unfortunately after inputting this band plan, it still isn't picking up anything. When I switch the scanner to ID Search, the display flickers very quickly when a talk group is detected, but doesn't lock on to it. I'm stumped. I rechecked everything and I can't see what I have possibly done wrong.

 

[mikewazowski]

Does it show a frequency at all when a group is detected? It probably suffers from the same issue as all the other P2 scanners where the scanner interprets all the bandplan entries as FDMA.

 

[bigcam406]

It changes from the control channel frequency to the voice channel so quickly, it can't be read. And the talk group number can't be read as well.

 

[gary123]

the scanner is set to TDMA X2?


Sorry to make you do the testing.

 

[bigcam406]

Lol don't apologize. I program my scanners by hand, as it's pretty straight forward. Have never had any issues before, therefore I'm thinking it's a controller issue.

 

[gary123]

I am of that opinion too but worst case this is an opportunity to do some testing and see if there is a workaround.