I have been monitoring the Slater over the past few days. Since I found that I can recieve the Jefferson County South Site here in the Park Hills, mo area.
So far I have and Id'd several Fire and EMS.
Apparently, its seems that Pevely PD is using some type of Analog Patch. I can recieve their traffic on tgid 12036. But no UIDs show up.
I checked and I have scanner programmed right.
More Later, as I get it.
Yes, Pevely is using an analog patch into Slater. Possibly for the better repeater coverage Slater offers but more likely, they are probably getting ready to move all over to Slater. Using a patch would allow them to upgrade radios to P25 radios a few at a time if a budget does not allow the purchase of new radios all at once for example.
The same type patch can be heard on TG 55427 on either STL County Slater site and TG 12038 on either Jeffco Slater site. Both of those analog patch Talkgroups carry analog traffic from the analog point to point channel on 155.370.
If you have a second radio, put in Pevely's dispatch channel of 154.755 analog. You will hear them on that a second or two before you hear them on TG 12036 on the Slater site. That assumes you are within range of Pevely's analog signal but I think Park Hills should be. I can hear 154.755 here in Chesterfield.
It's kind of fun to see how much better the Slater towers can hear distant analog signals on the 155.370 point to point channel compared to what your scanner can hear!
An example, I can barely hear Jefferson City on 155.370 directly with my outdoor antenna but I can hear them plain as day when they come over the analog patch on TG 55427 on either stl county slater site. That shows you how much better Slater's tall antenna towers can pull in distant signals. I also cannot hear Jefferson City at all with a scanner even when hooked to a high antenna specific to the VHF band. I must hookup a commercial radio or an Icom R9000 to my antenna to hear them directly. The signal is still nothing near as clean and strong as what the Slater towers can hear.
Audio heard over an analog patch on Slater will often sound muffled when compared to the real analog signal if within your range. I suspect that is an artifact from the analog to digital conversions that take place with an analog patch.