Programming Question for Delaware

[ECHO3]

I have programmed New Castle, Kent and Sussex frequencies and desired talkgroups into my 796 in separate banks. What, if anything, do I do with:

005 Hartly
102 Winterthur
103 Hockenssin
104 Rehoboth Beach?

Also, on a previous topic, I get the impression with Sussex.

 

[Mark]

Good question!
I personally don't use those repeater freqs you mentioned and have cruised the State from Fairfax to Fenwick Island and find the base county listings work fine for the most part.
Those repeaters seem more for some dead zone areas for transmitting purposes and the sensitive PRO-96 doesn't seem to need them for the casual listener.
Maybe if you resided in Hartly area or Hockessin they would be of more use but I find them not needed for the average monitoring purposes.

Mark

 

[ECHO3]

Thanks, Mark. I can live with that. Do you have any difficulties monitoring Sussex (Site 003)?

 

[Mark]

Sussex works fine starting North of Milford headed south and works great in Beach areas.The only weak spot I noticed was inland driving North between Georgetown and Milford which is mostly rural farmland.
That is with my PRO-96 lying on my car seat with 800 mhz RS antenna.
Hooked to mag roof mount reception is better.

Mark

 

[hai_akeeba]

Forget the intelli-repeaters in Hartly, Hocksessin, Winterthur they are not needed. Rehoboth frequencies(latest update) are identical to the Sussex channels. The old frequencies are for a de-funct intelli-repeater. A new full feature site has been added at the Rehoboth VFC location on Rehoboth Avenue. Also there are two frequencies that hang on the Sussex system that will cause the scanner to habg on a talkgroup and pass transmissions in the scanner not related to that talkgroup

 

[ECHO3]

Well, the first half of your response represents good news. The second half sounds like an annoying systemic problem with their system. I apologize if the following smacks with sarcasm, but whoever manages the Delaware system should be aware of the problem. If I'm correct, why don't they correct it? Is this just a problem that plagues scanners (in which case they probably don't give a d...) or does it also affect the LE personnel radios?