oem316
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The 996xt came with the latest firmware already installed which already supports rebanding out of the box
Saratoga County TRS Official Thread
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You're not the only person who cannot monitor the system. Being that it's a multi-site simulcast system, monitoring from a base station seems to be sporactic at best. I am not able to monitor any traffic on that system from Queensbury, yet I can monitor the Rensselaer Co frequencies in conventional mode with no problem...
oem316
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Thanks Glen, i have a weird thing today for had a mobile unit with the system in and picked it up clear as day on all channels in Canajoharie, Montgomery county emergency but can't get it in colonie. Off topic a bit. I would love to monitor renn co but was told there was no way to only 46.10 fire disp. Could you pm me the conventional channels. Greatly appreciated
Thanks Glen, i have a weird thing today for had a mobile unit with the system in and picked it up clear as day on all channels in Canajoharie, Montgomery county emergency but can't get it in colonie. Off topic a bit. I would love to monitor renn co but was told there was no way to only 46.10 fire disp. Could you pm me the conventional channels. Greatly appreciated
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DaveNF2G
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It seems to me that some adjustments might have been made to the system recently. For the past couple of weeks, my reception of this system at home has been drastically better. Still not perfect, but much improved.
I have noticed that the VHF frequency for Sheriff's Dispatch (158.730, PL 123.0) has gone silent. There is still traffic on State / Co. 911 (158.775, PL 123.0)
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DaveNF2G
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I hadn't noticed that yet, but it's not surprising that sheriff would disappear from VHF quickly. All of their units are on 800 now. NYSP is still patching to 800.
Sheriff Ch1
Was told that Sheriff VHF was taken down as only sheriff units are permitted on that channel (vs 911) and all of the sheriffs units have 800 thus it was not being used. In addition they were getting some occasional "noise" on the VHF side which was causing problems with the 800. Also was told that they may be switching the simplex County MRD (154.875) which is only active on Spruce Mt to the 'old' Sheriff VHF which is a multi site voted repeater. They still use MRD for comms with other county law enforcement agencies and dispatch Ballston Spa PD on it. Makes good sense to me.
Was told that Sheriff VHF was taken down as only sheriff units are permitted on that channel (vs 911) and all of the sheriffs units have 800 thus it was not being used. In addition they were getting some occasional "noise" on the VHF side which was causing problems with the 800. Also was told that they may be switching the simplex County MRD (154.875) which is only active on Spruce Mt to the 'old' Sheriff VHF which is a multi site voted repeater. They still use MRD for comms with other county law enforcement agencies and dispatch Ballston Spa PD on it. Makes good sense to me.
So.. I've been asked to program a Uniden BCD996XT to receive this system. I'm using FreeScan, and I've loaded the programming right off of RadioReference's database. Unfortunately, it's not working. I don't know much about programming trunked systems.
I'm located in Mechanicville. The scanner just sits there, looking for the control channel. Anyone have any suggestions?
I'm located in Mechanicville. The scanner just sits there, looking for the control channel. Anyone have any suggestions?
Have not seen posted elsewere so I am posting here if someone wishes to add to database. The simplex analog ground frequencies are as follows : Grnd 1 852.2500 pl 146.2 Grnd 2 853.1375 pl 146.2 Grnd 3 853.7750 pl 146.2 These are confirmed accurate as they were 'extracted' from a fire service portable. As I am sure everyone already realizes that being simplex you would need to be in proximity of the user to receive them, mainly on the fireground.
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A work around for receiving system. If you are in the greater Mechanicville area program in 159.420 conventional. The MFD has their county 800 base patched to this frequency so you are able to monitor Fire/EMS and all Tacs crystal clear as long as you are in range of MFD VHF base. I can hear it in Clifton Park / Halfmoon area just fine. The patch only goes 800 to VHF. This way if they are using this frequency they do not cause interference but are able to monitor the county activity on their VHF equipment. For calls in the city they use their VHF frequencies and not the county system (generally).
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Very interesting info. According to Dave, he hasn't heard or logged any trunking activity on those three frequencies, and I guess we now know why!
I'm inclined to remove those three frequencies from the South Simulcast, and add them to the County Fire section as analog fireground frequencies.
I do wish you'd use the Submit feature in the future, rather than posting info like that in a thread. I just happen to follow this thread, otherwise I probably would've never seen those frequencies.
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/submit/?sid=1139
Hahahahahaha! Yes, I'm aware of the MFD patch... I'm the one that hooked it up, in fact 
I was able to receive some signal on the scanner... But I had to be outside, holding the whole base unit up towards the sky, to hear a broken transmission on TAC-5. Less than perfect. It's frustrating, considering I had a XTS1500 sitting on the ground, receiving everything crystal clear.
I was able to receive some signal on the scanner... But I had to be outside, holding the whole base unit up towards the sky, to hear a broken transmission on TAC-5. Less than perfect. It's frustrating, considering I had a XTS1500 sitting on the ground, receiving everything crystal clear.
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DaveNF2G
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Hmmm. OK, so what about these?
853.8625 GRND (on-scene)
853.8875 GRND (on-scene)
853.9125 GRND (on-scene)
853.9875 GRND (on-scene)
853.8625 GRND (on-scene)
853.8875 GRND (on-scene)
853.9125 GRND (on-scene)
853.9875 GRND (on-scene)
That looks like a list of Rensselaer's on-scene frequencies, not Saratoga's.
Rensselaer County, New York (NY) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference
Those are the Regional Planning Committee (RPC) 30 and RPC 55 low power channels.
I don't know if Saratoga is using them.
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DaveNF2G
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I think I see what happened. Saratoga County is licensed on those four channels, along with some of the 800 MHz interop channels, on at least one of the trunked system licenses. These frequencies showed no inputs and no base stations on the license, so it appeared that they were going to be the GRND channels.
Now we are down to two unheard frequencies - 851.225 and 852.850.
Now we are down to two unheard frequencies - 851.225 and 852.850.
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DaveNF2G
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Is there a CTCSS or DCS on this frequency?
I haven't heard it in Waterford, which I suppose is a good thing as it probably cannot interfere with Columbia County Sheriff if the power is low enough.
Yep, CTCSS of 82.5Hz. The radio puts out 40 watts from an antenna mounted on the roof of MFD's central fire house, so it's pretty much at river level, and as a result has trouble getting out of the valley, but it should still be receivable in the Waterford area, depending on where you are.
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DaveNF2G
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Thanks for the info.
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