HELP ME. Wits end. The 100 and 536 are programmed exactly same. Trx1 is the only of the three that will pick up Moore Ok police dispatch. On the Unidens, I even have locked on the dept. Programmed in identically. Tried different antennas. I am lost. Tried adding/removing sites, nothing helping. I dont know what to do.
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Which system are they using? Moore Police Dispatch are in both the Motorola system and in the P25 system. Both use Law Dispatch as the service type. Check what system and TG that the TRX are receiving police dispatch on.
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Do you have the Unidens programmed for the OKWIN P25 system? Moore police and fire are on OKWIN, which recently converted to P25 on the Oklahoma City site. Simulcast issues may prevent reception on the 536, but should not be a problem with the 100.
After 3 days of experiments, determined that OKWIN is very picky! The 536 must have an external discone. The SDS100 with factory rubber ducky will only receive the OKWIN in one room of the house!!! What the........??!!!!!!!! Anyone think the remtronix will help??
I am next door so to speak to midtown OKC where a lot of multipath occurs and I can hear OKWIN no problem with a small telescoping whip indoors. I use 2 RTL-SDR's for trunking.
The remtronix will give your more signal at 800 mHz. You must live a good distance from the OKC OKWIN site. Moore is on the OKC site, and probably the Norman site as well.
1. Remember that Oklahoma has two systems that are named Oklahoma Wireless Interoperability Network
and this can be confusing because with some scanners, as it may be difficult to discern if it is the P25
or the analog....at least...you cannot necessarily see if it is the P25... on the screen..
2. Did you try using a filter with your SDS100? For example, I have noticed with my SDS100 that when I
use the filter Wide Normal, this significantly improves reception and range for me.
I hope this helps.
and this can be confusing because with some scanners, as it may be difficult to discern if it is the P25
or the analog....at least...you cannot necessarily see if it is the P25... on the screen..
2. Did you try using a filter with your SDS100? For example, I have noticed with my SDS100 that when I
use the filter Wide Normal, this significantly improves reception and range for me.
I hope this helps.
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Remtronix may help a little - also I assume you have turned your squelch all the way down to almost 0??
Also what has helped me in the past is a single mounted Yagi antenna even if its inside...just pointed the direction of the tower...You can get one really cheap on Amazon...and small.
For Moore, you must use P25II... I set up a favorites list on my SDS200 for Moore. Using Sentinel, I had to first add the system, then the Moore talkgroups I wanted to hear and "avoided" or deleted the other stuff outside of Moore (for my Moore List). I monitor PD very well.
The city of Moore uses OKWIN P25 Phase I, not II on the OKC and Norman sites.
This makes a big difference when programming a scanner.
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