t1mberman91
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I need some help getting my scanner going for Johnson County, Indiana. I have done it through freescan with RR and I’m just not hearing much but when I turn on the scanner app on my phone its all day long.
Thank you. It’s been a learning curve. The last scanners I played with were probably 15 years ago. I have a Uniden BCD396T.Welcome to the RR forums. What make & model scanner are you using? You may be facing a well documented issue known as simulcast distortion. There are a few sites on Hoosier Safe-T listed for Johnson County that are simulcast so there's a chance you're within monitoring range of two or more simulcasting cells. You may be better off monitoring with a Uniden SDS100 or SDS200
1 (1) | 077 (4D) | Greenwood | Johnson, IN | 851.475 | 851.875 | 852.475 | 852.900 | 853.375 | 854.1625 | 854.4875c |
859.7375c | ||||||||||
1 (1) | 078 (4E) | Franklin | Johnson, IN | 851.475 | 852.0375 | 852.375 | 852.475 | 852.900 | 853.275 | 853.3875 |
853.450 | 853.900c | 853.975c | ||||||||
1 (1) | 079 (4F) | Edinburgh | Johnson, IN | 852.2625 | 852.650 | 852.9875 | 853.250 | 853.625 | 853.9875 | 854.2125 |
854.4125c |
That would be great. I just uploaded the RR programs through free scan so I’m not sure about the sites.Do you have the right sites programmed in? In Greenwood, I waiver between Greenwood and Franklin being the strongest signal.
But sometimes my 396T misses transmissions compared to my Unication G4.
I can send you my Butel Arc396 mem file for Johnson Co if you want to take a look at it in Freescan.
I’m confused now by “sites”do you have the closest one ?
1 (1) 077 (4D) Greenwood Johnson, IN 851.475 851.875 852.475 852.900 853.375 854.1625 854.4875c 859.7375c 1 (1) 078 (4E) Franklin Johnson, IN 851.475 852.0375 852.375 852.475 852.900 853.275 853.3875 853.450 853.900c 853.975c 1 (1) 079 (4F) Edinburgh Johnson, IN 852.2625 852.650 852.9875 853.250 853.625 853.9875 854.2125 854.4125c
and squelch set to 2.
Thank You Very much. I will be programing it this evening and see what happens. Now just to figure out Marion County.
Okay good to know. Thank You.Unless you are in a sweet spot area where you are not experiencing simulcast issues, the 396T struggles on the Marion County system
1 (1) | 036 (24) | Indianapolis IGC North | Marion, IN | 856.2375 | 857.2375 | 858.2375c | 859.2375c | 859.5375c | ||
1 (1) | 037 (25) | Indianapolis ISP Post | Marion, IN | 851.975 | 851.9875 | 852.8625 | 855.2375 | 855.9625 | 856.6625 | 856.9625 |
857.9625 | 858.5125c | 858.7125 | 858.9625c | 859.9625c | ||||||
1 (1) | 087 (57) | INDOC IJCF | Marion, IN | 851.2125 | 851.6875c | 852.0875c |
The FCC rebanded the 800 MHz spectrum several years ago and certain scanners needed a modified band plan to follow the traffic on some trunked systems. When Safe-T switched from Motorola Type II system to P25 trunking the modified band plan was no longer needed.What does it mean when it says "No APCO Band Plan"
I am not familiar with Johnson County reception, but it might be a good idea to add the District 52 site for Indiana State Police. It is not simulast and the tower is very tall. I can pick it up from Hamilton County on my 396T. It might be helpful for monitoring ISP in northern Johnson County.The 396T will only listen to one site at a time for a given system. So if you have control channels for multiple actual sites in one system in your radio, it will lock on to the first one it receives a control channel on (whether that is the one that you intend or not).
I have noticed that I don't hear State Police on the Greenwood site. It has been mentioned on these forums that that channel is prohibited from transmitting on the Greenwood site so if you want to listen to State Police you have to listen to the Franklin site.
Did you put in all the correct talk groups like law control north, law control central and sheriff? For fire: Dispatch, Fire North and South, and the fire ground channels?
I'd be interested if you can tell what you are missing from the online stream? Like if it is police, fire or just certain transmissions you're not picking up.