Orange County Simulcast

[WS595]

Good evening,

I have noticed over the last couple of days on the Orange County Simulcast that the control channel 851.4125 keeps dropping and not supplying constant information so then the scanner cycles through the rest of the control channels in the system before locking back on and dropping again.

For now I've switched to monitoring the Orlando Simulcast system which is working perfectly.

Has anyone else noticed this issue? I am using an SDS100 with only the control channels programmed (I use site hold for either the Orange County Simulcast or Orlando Simulcast) and in the Eagle Creek area.

Thanks

Mark

 

[batdude]

I have not observed this.

 

[WS595]

I will change back onto the Orange County sites instead of Orlando today and see what it does.

 

[WS595]

Yup I've just checked again and it isn't picking up a CC on the Orange County simulcast. Which CC frequency is yours locked to and where abouts in the county are you?

 

[Bote]

Keep the squelch setting close to threshold.

 

[dkcorlfla]

I'm getting five bars on the 851.4125 CC BCD996P2. Discone up about 20 feet. Working fine here. My location is near the WPHS

 

[WS595]

Keep the squelch setting close to threshold.

I had mine on SQ 2. What are you finding works best?

 

[Bote]

Uniden scanners stupidly apply the squelch setting to the control channel, so if it's cranked up too high it won't decode properly. I think squelch=2 is the lowest it will go; squelch=1 is equivalent to squelch=0 on the BCD series.

 

[WS595]

Uniden scanners stupidly apply the squelch setting to the control channel, so if it's cranked up too high it won't decode properly. I think squelch=2 is the lowest it will go; squelch=1 is equivalent to squelch=0 on the BCD series.

You can go 0-15 on the SDS100 squelch.

 

[WX4JCW]

if you are just listening to one trunk system you can set it to 0