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Not really sure if this is an issue on my radio or what

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overtheair

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Has been programmed not to affiliate, disabled transmit on all groups. PTT also has been disabled.

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Ok on the durham pd's side there are 2 dispatch talkgroups and 5 district talkgroups for car2car or incidents for the specific district when there is just a police presence and not communicating to ems/fire. There are plenty of others but this is related to what I saw my radio do on a district talkgroup.

So the other day while monitoring a group police 2, and also scanning 3 other groups my radio switched to another group, police 4. Now this happened when one specific conversation between 2 of the users, both of which were on p2. When one person key'd up I received on p2, but when the other key'd up my unit switched to p4. But, they both heard each other.

There are only 3 groups scanned in this zone which are all dispatch channels. I have pulled the codeplug out of the radio to verify this, verified group ID's are correct and made sure there are no options enabled for affiliation/registration. I did not copy the subscriber ID down that cause the radio to switch, but it was not the same as the one I assigned to the radio

All I can think of is there is illegal radio affiliated byway of spoofing its id and was on p4, or there could be a problem with either my radio or the system(unlikely but possible).

I monitored the same channel part of the day on saturday but did not happen.
 

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Is it possible one officer was on P2 and another on P4, both had scan enabled on their radios (just a guess) so when P2 talked, P4 heard it because he was scanning. When P4 talked P2 heard it because he was scanning.
OR the dispatch console had them patched.
Just my two guesses.
 

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Even when I had a subscriber radio on this system(county sheriff's office) I never heard of the need to patch two district groups, dispatch channel(s) and a district group did happen and has happened recently before. But being on the same system, they could all just switch to the same district group, instead of tying up 2 groups unnecessarily.

But that still does not explain why my radio would have switched to that channel. I thought I was seeing things at first.
 

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Even when I had a subscriber radio on this system(county sheriff's office) I never heard of the need to patch two district groups, dispatch channel(s) and a district group did happen and has happened recently before. But being on the same system, they could all just switch to the same district group, instead of tying up 2 groups unnecessarily.

But that still does not explain why my radio would have switched to that channel. I thought I was seeing things at first.
Former DSO? Feel free to contact me directly via email addy below as I probably have more info on this situation than anyone else. Let's just say I am sure we have local friends in common.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Marshall KE4ZNR
KE4ZNR@Radioreference.com

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Well figured out the issue. I had apparently had added that channel to my scan list through the add/del function in the options menu of the radio at some point and never removed it. It was just happenstance there was users on both channels and their conversations just happen to correlate
 
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