bought a WS1040, dumped the trunked config from RR.com (all default values). pushed up to radio and can't get anything. no traffic at all. what am I doing wrong? no conventional objects just trunked config. I'm in Brazoria County TX. Isolated my list to one agency as a test. So many options not sure what I'm doing is right or if this unit is bad out of the box. Any help is appreciated.
Brazoria County is on this system:
Texas Wide Area Radio Network (TxWARN) (P25) Trunking System, Various, Texas - Scanner Frequencies
While most of the agencies are using P25 Phase I (that's indicated by a
D in the
Mode column), there are some using Phase II, as noted by a
T in the Mode column. You will not be able to monitor any Phase II traffic with the WS1040, but it will work for anything using Phase I.
Pearland is listed as Phase II, or Encrypted, so would not be scannable. The county S.O., Clue, Lake Jackson, and Manvel are mostly Phase I (trackable with your scanner), they also have one or more talkgroups listed as Phase II (
T mode). There are a few scattered encrypted talkgroups (Mode
E) other than Pearland, but most everything is in the clear.
As Redneck noted, many of us do have all three software packages, and so could help by looking at your file, then suggesting corrections or additions. If you want perhaps more specific help from someone in your area (I'm in Dallas, so out of range of your systems of interest), then you may want to have yuor post moved to the Texas forum. You can do that by clicking on the red bordered triangle in the upper right corner of your post, to report it and ask that it be moved.