OPP quiet lately

[squeakfour]

Got a tower with pre-amp still not getting OPP clear on 410.86250 CT 123.0, queston is the OPP station is only a mile away, they must be getting it clear. We must be missing something, got to be some other numbers out there that we can throw in. Any suggestion's ?????

 

[EJB]

Got a tower with pre-amp still not getting OPP clear on 410.86250 CT 123.0, queston is the OPP station is only a mile away, they must be getting it clear. We must be missing something, got to be some other numbers out there that we can throw in. Any suggestion's ?????

Try by taking out the pl tone, That once worked for me.
I thought 410.8625 was a mobile repeater in the vehicle. If that is the case you have to be near to the cars, it doesnt matter how close you are to a detachement.

 

[mikewazowski]

Yes, 410.8625Mhz is a vehicular repeater. The only time you'll hear it is with a car parked nearby. The officers in the detachment would be getting it clear since it's from one of their cars parked outside.

Until recently, if a car was parked at the detachment, the officers would leave the vr on so they could hear the calls within the detachment. That's probably what you were hearing.

BMR has started to install VHF radios at the detachments that rebroadcast the talkgroup through the detachment. If that's been installed, then there's no need to leave a vr on.

Somebody recently posted a picture of such an antenna installed in Bolton and I heard another is now onsite at Chatsworth.

Squeakfor, if that was your only way of listening to the OPP, then you'll need to buy a digital scanner if you don't already have one. Lot's o' numbers if you've got a digital scanner.

 

[squeakfour]

Got one, GRE600. I'll post a pic of the OPP antena at the station, I will take out the CT123.0. CT is the PL tone isn't it??? I got [8336 10PS09 middlesex] and [8320 10PS08 Lambton] , non are clear, should be a clear one for main dispatch for the Strathroy Middlesex area, because they [Station] must be able to hear it. This is how I had it CTCSS at 123.0, Now I put in 410.86250 with no tone and also put in 410.86250 P25 NAC search. Or is there anything better for strathroy?

 

[mikewazowski]

Let's make this simple:

1) 410.9625Mhz is an analog vehicular repeater frequency and always has a tone of 123.0hz on it. If you find you can hear it when you remove the tone, then you've programmed something wrong. There is no point in searching for a NAC code as it's an ANALOG frequency.

2) You need to find the closest tower to Strathroy and program in that site. Judging by the map, it would be London, Ipperwash or Wardsville.

3) As I previously said, the detachment has an antenna on the side of it and a very expensive radio. Just because you can't hear the system, doesn't mean they can't.

Except for making sure you've got the system programmed in correctly and haven't locked out the talkgroups, you'll need to invest in a better system if you want to hear them better.

With the new setup at the detachment, there's no reason to leave the vehicular repeater on anymore while at the detachment. That's why you're probably not hearing that frequency as strong.

 

[squeakfour]

I'll go back on the data base and go over every thing, I did lock out other areas, ex. Oxford etc. I just heard Elgin county very clear cc15 but could not hit pause fast enough for the rest of the numbers.

 

[squeakfour]

Ahh I think I deleted OPP aaaah lol

Installed Forts original back into the scanner and got OPP back again.

 

[squeakfour]

Strange thing is I did a lot of deleting on the original file since I don't travel, Hamilton etc. I don't need that area so I deleted it to make my own file . The talkgroup 8336 10PS09 Middlesex OPP in my own file does not work and have never deleted that talkgroup. Forts file, talkgroup 8336 10PS09 Middlesex OPP does work. Why is that????

 

[Forts]

Send me your file if you like and I will take a look at it.

And for what it's worth I think it's safe to say they are still using the VR's for comms in the detactment. I can look out my living room window and see the Strathroy detachement and have no problems at all receiving them on the VR frequencies using an analog Uniden BC350A scanner. Actually I receive them better on the UHF frequencies in the house than I can on Fleetnet. Really crappy Fleetnet reception in here on anything except an external antenna. I have my Pro-96 connected to a VHF antenna up in the attic the lets me pull in 4 or 5 Fleetnet sites when the local cell towers aren't driving it nuts.

 

[squeakfour]

edited file

This file I use, most the frequencies that I do not travel in I have taken out. still strange is that the middlesex OPP talkgroup kept in, latched the LED, and nothing on Middlesex or any other OPP talkgroup. On your copy it works, find Elgin very clear.