Scott County Trunk Systems

[Brian-Mc]

I am having problems picking up the traffic on the Scott County Trunk systems. I am using a Pro-97 Scanner and the Win97 software to program the freqs and alpha tags. While scanning, it will stop on the control channel and you hear the noise associated with that. I do pick up some traffic but not like I would expect. I am able to scroll through it manually and maybe pick up some traffic. When I let it scan, it will scan without any hits and then all the sudden it will stop on the control channel.

One item that I am questioning is the Freq line up listed. The freqs given for both Georgetown and Sadieville contain the same ones but just in different orders. Am I getting some problems because Sadieville has its own control channel?

Any help or even a file that I can use to load them.

Brian-Mc
Georgetown

 

[unitcharlie]

Hi Brian....
First, welcome to rr.com!
The Scott TRS is a perplexing thing. It is simulcast with sites in Georgetown and Sadieville.... Fire operates on the old VHF system, Georgetown PD, Scott EMS and Scott Sheriff all operate on the TRS... Scott TRS is coming in too well this morning in Woodford County so I am not sure which control channels are active.... I usually have this trouble with Georgetown Ctl 2 or Ctl 3....
I have it programmed two ways--in one bank with Scott FD between the two sites and then in two seperate banks--Georgetown in one and Sadieville in the other, I usually monitor it in the two-bank configuration becaue I listen to that particular scanner using those two banks and Lexington's TRS with a bunch of other freqs there as well....
Do you stay in and around Georgetown when you monitor? If so then you might be able to program just the Georgetown site into your radio... otherwise the three fixes to the "overactive" control channel are:
* Attenuate the overactive control channel (they don't change more often than daily so you can just scroll thru the program each day and press the ATT button... )
* Turn your squelch so it is least sentisitive...
* Use a less sensitive antenna...
(The above assumes you have it programmed beginning in spot 1, all freqs are marked as EDACS and the bank is set to EDACS)
Let me know how it goes.....

 

[Brian-Mc]

I have everything programmed into one bank. I entered the "Georgetown" (Site 001) listing of frequencies starting with "01" 856.7125, "02", "03", and so on until "12". I see that the first 5 are listed as the primary frequencies. The others are alternate ones. Then with Sadieville, it starts using the frequency listed for Georgetown in the "06" location. It goes through the remaining freqs and then starts back over with the "01" of Georgetown. Am I getting some problems because I have 01 through 12 programmed in as one EDACS system? I am using just the stock antenna that came with the Pro-97. I can turn the squelch up some but I will notice that it will begin to pick up traffic but it does not break the squelch. When I manually go to the control channel, both come up pretty strong. Just want to get this thing to work. If I need to seperate them into seperate EDACS (banks) then I will.. Just need to know what problem I am having. Anyone who can provide me a win97 file would be a big help. Or even another file as long as I can download the application to pull the info from.

 

[unitcharlie]

PM me your email address...

 

[Brian-Mc]

After much researching on the yahoo groups, I found the problem. The Pro-97 has the channels starting out at 00 instead of 01. I had to leave channel 00 empty and start the LCN order on channel 01. Now all works well... atleast it works comparable to the scanner one of the guys from work owns.

 

[kyparamedic]

We've been having some problems with the system lately. Not enough to make us go to the VHF back-up but periodically throughout the day we'll lose the control channel momentarily and sometimes in the middle of a dispatch their console will just stop transmitting and they won't realize it. The dispatch radios kept keeing up the other day with an awful noise, similar to feedback but it wasn't. They kept testing the system after that for a few hour. Range was also an issue that day even from the mobiles.