Newbie needs help with YRPD

[tonyta]

I have recently purchased a Uniden BC396T and it was preloaded with YRPD. It seems like some districts will have lots of activity then the channel goes dead for over 8 hours. It seems to happen to district one the most. Is this normal or am I missing some frequency's or is the set-up incorrect. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I checked the RR Data base and I have all the TGID'S installed including 115. Thanks

 

[hypersight]

2 Things come to mind. YRP uses MDTs for most of their calls....maybe that's why you don't hear much action sometimes. Also They patch their channels together, so if you are not hearing anything on Dist 1 for a while, it's probably patched with Dist 5.

 

[mciupa]

Hi tonyta , welcome to RadioReference.

Another scenario that may be happening is that YR trunked system does Control Channel rotation.
Since you did not program the scanner, make sure that all four channel freq.'s are entered.
They may inadvertantly neglected to program all of them for you.
They rotate daily , and I've seen rotation even twice or more in a single day.

 

[tonyta]

Hi Guy's thanks for the replys. Like everything it's a bit of a learning curve, last time I had a scanner was over 15 years ago when they were all on single channels. I used BCTool and the BearCat BCD396T Director as a software to check the whats loaded in the scanner and everything seems entered. I found BC Tool to be neat because it has a record feature. Last night I listened to YRP for a couple of hours to see whats going on in the snow storm and it just seemed to0 quiet for such a night. Any other software out there or places to get frequency or channel updates. Thanks

 

[hypersight]

Actually you can get the current frequencies in the database on this website.
Here is the link for York Region http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=1572

 

[MetalCarnage]

Actually you can get the current frequencies in the database on this website.
Here is the link for York Region http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=1572

Tonyta, the above is not the only place to get freqs, but personally, this site is the ONLY place in my books that i go, its just too organized and up to date to bother looking anywhere else...