IronAir
Member
Hello all,
First post here. I have been reading a bunch and learning a bunch from your fine site, but something still has me baffled. Instead of pulling more of my hair out trying to find the answer, I may as well just ask.
A few weeks ago I bought a new PRO-197 and have been doing my best to get it up and running. I know what you are thinking... "not another newbie asking about how to program his scanner". No, that is not it, I have it mostly figured out.
The question I have is this. When I first got the scanner I was using TUNE and SEARCH to find local freqencies, and found quite a few. These were stored as CONVentional objects. Of course, some of these frequencies were not meant to be listened to alone, but were part of a trunking system. As my knowledge of how this is supposed to work increased, I started programming in TSYS objects. Now I still have the CONVentional objects stored along side the TGRP objects, and they both have the same frequencies, but I hear much more activity on the single CONV frequencies than I do on the trunked frequencies. Why? I hope I have explained this well enough for you to understand what my problem is. There is something in the setup that I have overlooked, or more than likely I just do not understand the system well enough yet to know what is going on.
Here is more detail about what I am experiencing. I live in Traverse City, Michigan. We just had a huge snowstorm last weekend that wiped out a bunch of powerlines. There are line crews from all over the state up here cutting branches and fixing powerlines. I went to the RR freq database and under Consumers Energy, I find these frequencies "064 (40) Traverse City Grand Traverse 01 855.03750 02 855.66250 03 856.88750 04 860.31250a 05 858.86250 08 857.41250c" I program them in under NEW TGRP and NEW TSYS with EDACS standard and all that jazz.
Anyway, I am at a lose, if you can see something that I am doing wrong or why I am not getting all the transmissions on the trunked system that I think I should be, please let me know.
Thanks
Jeff
First post here. I have been reading a bunch and learning a bunch from your fine site, but something still has me baffled. Instead of pulling more of my hair out trying to find the answer, I may as well just ask.
A few weeks ago I bought a new PRO-197 and have been doing my best to get it up and running. I know what you are thinking... "not another newbie asking about how to program his scanner". No, that is not it, I have it mostly figured out.
The question I have is this. When I first got the scanner I was using TUNE and SEARCH to find local freqencies, and found quite a few. These were stored as CONVentional objects. Of course, some of these frequencies were not meant to be listened to alone, but were part of a trunking system. As my knowledge of how this is supposed to work increased, I started programming in TSYS objects. Now I still have the CONVentional objects stored along side the TGRP objects, and they both have the same frequencies, but I hear much more activity on the single CONV frequencies than I do on the trunked frequencies. Why? I hope I have explained this well enough for you to understand what my problem is. There is something in the setup that I have overlooked, or more than likely I just do not understand the system well enough yet to know what is going on.
Here is more detail about what I am experiencing. I live in Traverse City, Michigan. We just had a huge snowstorm last weekend that wiped out a bunch of powerlines. There are line crews from all over the state up here cutting branches and fixing powerlines. I went to the RR freq database and under Consumers Energy, I find these frequencies "064 (40) Traverse City Grand Traverse 01 855.03750 02 855.66250 03 856.88750 04 860.31250a 05 858.86250 08 857.41250c" I program them in under NEW TGRP and NEW TSYS with EDACS standard and all that jazz.
Anyway, I am at a lose, if you can see something that I am doing wrong or why I am not getting all the transmissions on the trunked system that I think I should be, please let me know.
Thanks
Jeff