Problem with one frequency

[Chief_601]

I have an odd problem. I've had a 396T for about a week now and I'm still trying to figure it out. I have one agency that I can't seem to get. I have the frequency (155.4000) and have previously been able to monitor it with 2 or 3 other scanners. I have programmed it in but it never receives. (I am receiving traffic for another agency on 154.1900, so I know I'm not completely messed up.) I have tried changing the squelch and the modulation but still nothing. I originally programmed it with the PL tone but have since undone that and am now doing it without the PL.

I assume that it's simply a setting somewhere that I'm missing, but I'm not sure what else to change. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[cws]

Maybe you accidentally locked it out? Check the L/O list, or unlock everything.
If you're not using software, get the free UASD, and download everything to it, so you can look at that 'system' and see all the settings.
That's all I can think of.

 

[UPMan]

What does R/M Management (the licensee in Muncie) do? If they provided radio system work for city services (PD, Fire, etc) might the agency have moved to the SAFE-T system? I see a lot of Muncie talk groups.

 

[Chief_601]

Problem

It's not locked out - I even entered it into a different system to make sure that it wasn't something with that system that I wasn't aware of. I am using software to program it so that I can see all settings.

I have this frequency in 3 other scanners and my handheld radio so I know there is traffic that i can't hear.

Like I said, I'm 99% sure that it's me ... I just need to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

 

[UPMan]

Hmmm. Well, I see that a fireground channel is on 154.400. Is your 155.400 a typo?

If not, is 155.4 using PL (if so and it is programmed into the scanner, which tone)?

If you press HOLD, 1 5 5 ./no 4, HOLD the scanner will hold on the frequency in "VFO" mode. If you can hear the agency in that mode, but not when sitting on the programmed channel, then that would confirm that you've set something wrong somewhere.

 

[cws]

Oh, boy! a puzzle.

It's not locked out - I even entered it into a different system to make sure that it wasn't something with that system that I wasn't aware of. I am using software to program it so that I can see all settings.

I have this frequency in 3 other scanners and my handheld radio so I know there is traffic that i can't hear.

Like I said, I'm 99% sure that it's me ... I just need to figure out what I'm doing wrong.

OK. I love these little problems. ;-)
If you give a man his assumptions, you cannot refute his argument. So, I won't give you any, except that there is a frequency, and you can hear it on other radios.

Let's start from the beginning. I looked at every county around Delaware in the database, and I found no occurance of 155.4000. If you're going by memory (yours, not the scanner's,) then I have to ask: Are you sure of that frequency?
Maybe it's one of these similar ones, instead?

155.49000 WPUA569 BM 107.2 PL Hgrstwn PD Police FM Law Tac
154.40000 KSD705 RM 141.3 PL RchmndFD/EMS Fire/EMS Dispatch FM Fire Dispatch
155.70000 KAK597 BM 114.8 PL Wnchstr PD Police FM Law Dispatch
155.94000 155.19000 KAU715 BM 82.5 PL Gas City FD Fire FM Fire Dispatch
154.44500 KSI989 BM Center FD TA Fire Tac 2 FM Fire-Tac
155.47500 KLL509 M ILEEN I.L.E.E.N FM Interop
155.04000 155.04000 KCJ935 BM APW-WATER Anderson Water Department FM Public Works

If not, then which agency is it you're trying to get? And, is the freq listed in the database? (I suppose I could have overlooked it.)

Thanks for giving me something to do - I'm bored...

EDIT: I was looking while UPMAN was posting - what does 'VFO' stand for, please, anyone?

 

[UPMan]

Variable Frequency Oscillator. Modern scanner's don't really have such a thing, but the term "VFO" has entered the scannists lexicon to loosely mean a frequency tuned to outside of the "channel" mode.