Schenectady county help

[Bicboi1030]

Hello folks, I have a Homepatrol 2 and not having any luck picking up the new schenectady county fire/EMS system. Are they encrypted?. I can get Albany county and Colonie just fine. I only get Schenectady county on the old frequency. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Thunderknight]

Fire and EMS are NOT encrypted. (Police is).
Not too familiar with that scanner, but make sure you are only selected for the Schenectady cell (site). The traffic is not on the Albany County cells.

 

[vikingegfd]

where are you located? I cannot pick them up in East Greenbush.

 

[Bicboi1030]

where are you located? I cannot pick them up in East Greenbush.

Rotterdam, probably a mile away from the UCC

 

[Bicboi1030]

Fire and EMS are NOT encrypted. (Police is).
Not too familiar with that scanner, but make sure you are only selected for the Schenectady cell (site). The traffic is not on the Albany County cells.

Ok, I don't know how but will figure it out

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Welcome to the forums:
You are most likely encountering a phenomenon known as simulcast distortion, perhaps the most discussed issue on these forums while trying to monitor this system. In a simulcast system, a site is not a single transmitter at a specific location, but rather a collection of transmitters spread out over a certain area that all transmit on the same frequency at the same time. It's all those signals coming to your scanner at the same time that cause most scanners to lock up, stutter, miss transmissions, etc. Ultimately the only scanners designed to mitigate the effects of simulcast distortion are the Uniden SDS100 (portable) or SDS200 (base). Yes they are the most expensive but they do the job right. There are a number of workarounds for other scanners mentioned in the wiki I linked but they work in very few cases.

 

[W2DFC]

i have programmed some HBD436HP's and handle the system well while i was testing them before giving them back to the owners...also the BCD536HP would be the desktop version.