I live in MD and make weekly trips across the 301 bridge and over to Fredericksburg driving through VSP Div 1 and Div 2 and I have not been able to pick up any VSP comm. I used to be able to get them regularly on my PSR-800 programmed to the RR data for STARS. I noticed over the last couple of months it has been dead quiet. I don't even see the "T" flickering on and off showing that it sees a trunking control signal. Sometime over the last 2 weeks I did hear one Richmond conversation but I was driving and couldn't look at the scanner long enough to note the control frequency. Something has changed and it almost seems like the control frequencies since I'm not seeing the "T". I have turned extra sites on and opened a lot of talkgroups but still not hearing anything.
It is good to know, by all the reports, that my equipment id is not at fault. It seems strange for such a good system to be down for so long. I would think that if this was a maintenance issue, it would have been repaired by now. Then the question arises just how communications are continuing? Maybe there is a backup system, or possibly the State has pulled the plug on STARS? Hopefully we may get information from RR.Com. Can't find any information elsewhere else. Thanks for all replies!