Last week I picked up a BCD996P2 as an upgrade over my BCD996T.I also have a 325p2 for portable use.
From my home in Marion County, with a discone on the house, I can pick up quite a bit. Marion county uses analog for LE, and P25 for VFD ops. Already listening to AWIN. The discone allows me to listen to Boone County fire, Harrison fire, and Carroll County Fire/SO.
After the DMR upgrade to the 996, I started programming Newton, Searcy, and Baxter counties, and ProScan asked me if I wanted to import them as single frequency trunking, or as conventional.
Here's what I have right now:
For Baxter county, I have BCSO set as conventional, and it seems to work. Most of the county ops are single frequency except for BCSO dispatch, who has two TGs using different slots. I'm hearing traffic on both TGs.
For Newton county, I tried setting it as a single frequency trunking, and putting in all the frequencies as sites in the system. Most of the time it works well, except a few times I've noticed sheriff dispatch (TG 10) will show up as "ID:10", even though I have it in as a TG ID. It doesn't do that all the time. Any ideas why?
For Searcy County, I did the same as Newton County. Since Searcy Law and Searcy Fire have the same TG ID, but different slots, my radio seems to be conflating the two. Sometimes I'll hear Law on the Fire TG.
Help me out... am I doing this right? What is the best way to program these counties?
From my home in Marion County, with a discone on the house, I can pick up quite a bit. Marion county uses analog for LE, and P25 for VFD ops. Already listening to AWIN. The discone allows me to listen to Boone County fire, Harrison fire, and Carroll County Fire/SO.
After the DMR upgrade to the 996, I started programming Newton, Searcy, and Baxter counties, and ProScan asked me if I wanted to import them as single frequency trunking, or as conventional.
Here's what I have right now:
For Baxter county, I have BCSO set as conventional, and it seems to work. Most of the county ops are single frequency except for BCSO dispatch, who has two TGs using different slots. I'm hearing traffic on both TGs.
For Newton county, I tried setting it as a single frequency trunking, and putting in all the frequencies as sites in the system. Most of the time it works well, except a few times I've noticed sheriff dispatch (TG 10) will show up as "ID:10", even though I have it in as a TG ID. It doesn't do that all the time. Any ideas why?
For Searcy County, I did the same as Newton County. Since Searcy Law and Searcy Fire have the same TG ID, but different slots, my radio seems to be conflating the two. Sometimes I'll hear Law on the Fire TG.
Help me out... am I doing this right? What is the best way to program these counties?
