State Police Reception
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VSP ON National PD 2
Vermont state police trooper‘s been here in the last couple of weeks but wasn’t able to login, been using national law-enforcement channel 2(155.4750) CSQ. Lotta good chatter on this channel, have not heard anything on 163.1000 100.0
Where you are, I wouldn’t think any other than the stock antenna would be necessary. Is the antenna on the correct band?
Are you using Sentinel to program the scanner and are you programming your own Favorites List? First, I wouldn’t use the database for the most part unless you are traveling. Create your own Favorites List, if you haven’t. If you want to use the database, you have an extremely large range (50 miles) selected. It will take a long time for the scanner to travel through the list. And there will be a lot of frequencies and trunked systems in there that you won’t hear, further wasting the time of the scanner. I would shorten it to zero or five. You will still hear more than you are probably looking for.
If you need a helpful website to sentinel, here is one: BCDX36HP Sentinel Software Manual
There is also a Mark’s Scanner page for the 436 and 536 that is helpful.
Are you using Sentinel to program the scanner and are you programming your own Favorites List? First, I wouldn’t use the database for the most part unless you are traveling. Create your own Favorites List, if you haven’t. If you want to use the database, you have an extremely large range (50 miles) selected. It will take a long time for the scanner to travel through the list. And there will be a lot of frequencies and trunked systems in there that you won’t hear, further wasting the time of the scanner. I would shorten it to zero or five. You will still hear more than you are probably looking for.
If you need a helpful website to sentinel, here is one: BCDX36HP Sentinel Software Manual
There is also a Mark’s Scanner page for the 436 and 536 that is helpful.
You should have no trouble picking up the Hampton or York county site
Todd has a good point. At 50 miles, your scanner may be wasting time scanning sites and systems you can't actually receive and you may miss traffic that you could pick up if you limited your scan to close-in sites/systems. More isn't always better.
You might also want to check your Service Types and make sure Law Enforcement dispatch and any other services in which you are interested are turned on. I believe the 536 uses a Service Type list but I'd have to check to be sure.
Go ahead and do yourself a favor a make your own Favorites List, trust me it’s worth it
This is for Vermont. OP is inquiring about VirginiaVSP ON National PD 2
Vermont state police trooper‘s been here in the last couple of weeks but wasn’t able to login, been using national law-enforcement channel 2(155.4750) CSQ. Lotta good chatter on this channel, have not heard anything on 163.1000 100.0forums.radioreference.com
Yes, pressing the SERV key on the radio brings up the services menu. The OP will want to make sure "Law Dispatch" and "Law Tac" services are switched on in order to hear everything state police
Again...I use the WiFi and I'm located in 23692 and that's set in the scanner. I'm assuming it's pulling from a current Freq DB???? The antenna is made specifically for scanner reception. The only services I have disabled is Business. It's giving me a lot of comm that I don't care about but I wanted to make sure I wasn't filtering anything out. I've reset to 10 miles.
Oh...thanks for the replies guys....
Oh...thanks for the replies guys....
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