I’m having a problem fine tuning my scanner for my uses. I live in Alameda County, CA. I’ve figured out how to programs the frequencies for the city of Hayward. Since it’s just simple frequencies’ and a CTCSS Tone Code. But for other cities the all share on Alameda County’s' Motorola Type II Smartnet.
Alameda County Trunking System, Oakland, California - Scanner Frequencies
Quite a lot of cities, lucky enough its analog so I think my scanner will work. Here’s what I’ve done so far
I’ve selected bank 3, starting on 300 I’ve entered all control frequencies’ first from least to greatest. Then entered all other frequencies’ listed, again staring from least to greatest. I made sure all frequencies are set to (MO) for Motorola and that the PRI is lowercase "pri" so that priority is off. DLY is caps all on all frequencies’ and LO is lowercased as well. Then I closed the bank. I hit function, then trunk. It took me to the sub banks I’ve entered the tag ids from the department’s I wanted to listen to, like Union city PD, Paramedic Plus and Fremont PD and organized them as I wanted. Now I didn’t mess with the fleet maps or size codes. Now this is what ive done, in sub bank 1 I have paramedic plus, sub bank 2 Union City, sub bank 3 Fremont. All banks are open. When there I hit scan and it shows it scanning bank 3 with a (-) underneath. Here’s my problem I don’t get any chatter from any of the ids I entered except 1 Paramedic Plus. Nothing from Union City or Fremont PD. Now if I turn off the paramedic plus bank and turn on maybe Fremont PD still nothing.... Now if I open bank 3 and just scan all the sub banks then I get chatter from Fremont or Union City but not if I just search that certain sub bank... Also it freaks out a lot, it’s hard to describe but I have a video to show you.
Pro-164 trunking - YouTube
What I'm looking for it to have it work right, because I have a feeling this isn’t right. I want to be able to listen to certain PDs or EMS, that ive program into my sub banks and stop the freak out in the video
Alameda County Trunking System, Oakland, California - Scanner Frequencies
Quite a lot of cities, lucky enough its analog so I think my scanner will work. Here’s what I’ve done so far
I’ve selected bank 3, starting on 300 I’ve entered all control frequencies’ first from least to greatest. Then entered all other frequencies’ listed, again staring from least to greatest. I made sure all frequencies are set to (MO) for Motorola and that the PRI is lowercase "pri" so that priority is off. DLY is caps all on all frequencies’ and LO is lowercased as well. Then I closed the bank. I hit function, then trunk. It took me to the sub banks I’ve entered the tag ids from the department’s I wanted to listen to, like Union city PD, Paramedic Plus and Fremont PD and organized them as I wanted. Now I didn’t mess with the fleet maps or size codes. Now this is what ive done, in sub bank 1 I have paramedic plus, sub bank 2 Union City, sub bank 3 Fremont. All banks are open. When there I hit scan and it shows it scanning bank 3 with a (-) underneath. Here’s my problem I don’t get any chatter from any of the ids I entered except 1 Paramedic Plus. Nothing from Union City or Fremont PD. Now if I turn off the paramedic plus bank and turn on maybe Fremont PD still nothing.... Now if I open bank 3 and just scan all the sub banks then I get chatter from Fremont or Union City but not if I just search that certain sub bank... Also it freaks out a lot, it’s hard to describe but I have a video to show you.
Pro-164 trunking - YouTube
What I'm looking for it to have it work right, because I have a feeling this isn’t right. I want to be able to listen to certain PDs or EMS, that ive program into my sub banks and stop the freak out in the video