Pinellas County P25 (802.BEE00) and Clearwater (00A.91F81)

[pcalandra]

Does anyone know if Pinellas County encrypted its Fire & EMS talk groups or made some other change? For some reason I can no longer hear them or Sunstar. I can still hear St. Pete PD. I'm using a Uniden SDS200 with a Bingfu 20-1300MHz Antenna. It has been working for months.

 

[tpredmore]

Does anyone know if Pinellas County encrypted its Fire & EMS talk groups or made some other change? For some reason I can no longer hear them or Sunstar. I can still hear St. Pete PD. I'm using a Uniden SDS200 with a Bingfu 20-1300MHz Antenna. It has been working for months.

I'm hearing FD and Sunstar fine. Make sure you have Site 5 enabled, they are only on Site 5.

 

[pcalandra]

Thanks, it was enabled but Site 5 had a P25 NAC of NAC800 all other sites were set to NAC Search. Don't know if that was the issue but I changed to NAC Search and now it seems to be working. Still new to this so not sure exactly how it works. I assume the NAC replaces PL or CTCSS. Again thanks for the help

 

[zlandmedia]

Still new to this so not sure exactly how it works.

For the SDS scanners, it is best to program them using Uniden's free software, Sentinel. For whole systems, you would create a Favorites List, and then add the systems and/or agencies you want to scan to that favorites list.

 

[tpredmore]

Anyone else having difficulty picking up Site 5 right now?

 

[18bravo]

Loud and clear from Zephyrhills using APX8500 with yagi antenna.

 

[AESFTW]

Nope

 

[mikeyc0120]

Hi guys, maybe someone can help me out? I just got the uniden Trunktracker 5 (bcd996p2) and I've programmed it for all the county sites and the fire, ems, pcso TGs. I used the ARC-XT sofrware and pulled it right from this database. Its working but seems like its missing channels. Im getting parts of a convo and after trying a few things and moving the threshold to 8, I started getting longer bits but now the audio will drop out about every 5 seconds for a second or two. Does anyone know about this scanner and familiar with this issue? Or am I missing some channels?? Thanks!

 

[zlandmedia]

Hi guys, maybe someone can help me out? I just got the uniden Trunktracker 5 (bcd996p2) and I've programmed it for all the county sites and the fire, ems, pcso TGs. I used the ARC-XT sofrware and pulled it right from this database. Its working but seems like its missing channels. Im getting parts of a convo and after trying a few things and moving the threshold to 8, I started getting longer bits but now the audio will drop out about every 5 seconds for a second or two. Does anyone know about this scanner and familiar with this issue? Or am I missing some channels?? Thanks!

Your issue is that you bought a scanner that is susceptible to simulcast distortion to scan a simulcast system.

Go SDS100 or SDS200.

 

[mikeyc0120]

Your issue is that you bought a scanner that is susceptible to simulcast distortion to scan a simulcast system.

Go SDS100 or SDS200.

Well that's good to know! Geez thought that was one of the better ones! Thanks I'll try that, thanks Amazon for your no hassle returns lol

 

[mitbr]

Problems with entire system 1/11 2023 815 pm...... thought it was me but checked on hp2 and G4, also units reporting problems freq radio checks. site signals keep droping.
Tim

 

[tpredmore]

Problems with entire system 1/11 2023 815 pm...... thought it was me but checked on hp2 and G4, also units reporting problems freq radio checks. site signals keep droping.
Tim

Seems like things might be clearing up now.

 

[mitbr]

Seems like things might be clearing up now.

nope just failed again Hi Tom!

 

[tpredmore]

nope just failed again Hi Tom!

Ahh, I hear SO doing radio checks on Patrol 2. SPPD seems to be operating normally, wonder if Site 4 is fully operational.

 

[mitbr]

Ahh, I hear SO doing radio checks on Patrol 2. SPPD seems to be operating normally, wonder if Site 4 is fully operational.

I can confirm site 5 and site2 are briefly failing.

 

[tpredmore]

I can confirm site 5 and site2 are briefly failing.

Yeah, I see Site 5 intermittently dropping as well. I don't typically scan Site 2.

 

[mitbr]

Yeah, I see Site 5 intermittently dropping as well. I don't typically scan Site 2.

I use site 2 at times o

Yeah, I see Site 5 intermittently dropping as well. I don't typically scan Site 2.

Been stable for half an hour hopefully they fixed it.
Tim

 

[tpredmore]

USF PD was just talking about Motorola pushing an update to their radios today due to issue last night.

 

[baayers]

I’m hearing tons of traffic on Sites 2 and 10 that’s normally only on 5. As of the time I am writing this, I am hearing all fire and EMS traffic, Largo, Pinellas Park, and Bay Pines. I actually came here wondering if anyone knew what was going on and saw the last couple of posts so that explains a lot. I heard the radio checks on Wednesday night and thought it was strange, but didn’t think anymore of it until tonight when I turned on the other sites.

it seems better now but earlier tonight even on my SDS 100 Site 5 was extremely choppy and garbled with signal strength all over the place.

 

[CanesFan95]

What type of tone alert protocol does fire dispatch use on Alpha? It's not 2-tone. It sounds more like a blurp of 4-6 rapid tones. Are there any scanners or software that cane decode it?.