BCD436HP/BCD536HP: SWA Cap+ system at MDW not showing up on 436

[datainmotion]

Was at Midway Airport yesterday and the updated dB on my 436 was not showing the Cap+ system for SWA. It had the conventional DMR channels for SWA but no sign of Cap+. I do have the DMR key (and use it regularly). I tried enabling different service types, but to no avail. Checked all avoids (which I wouldn't have there) also. Thoughts?

Southwest Airlines (Midway) Trunking System, Chicago, Illinois

Southwest Airlines (Midway) Trunking System Profile

www.radioreference.com

Edit - added info

 

[werinshades]

Was at Midway Airport yesterday and the updated dB on my 436 was not showing the Cap+ system for SWA. It had the conventional DMR channels for SWA but no sign of Cap+. I do have the DMR key (and use it regularly). I tried enabling different service types, but to no avail. Checked all avoids (which I wouldn't have there) also. Thoughts?

Southwest Airlines (Midway) Trunking System, Chicago, Illinois

Southwest Airlines (Midway) Trunking System Profile

www.radioreference.com

Edit - added info

Must be a programming issue, I've been listening to them all morning.

 

[datainmotion]

Must be a programming issue, I've been listening to them all morning.

May be time to do a force rewrite. And now that I'm back in front of the laptop, I see the system in Sentinel.

 

[werinshades]

May be time to do a force rewrite.

No idea, I self-program and don't depend on database uploads. Maybe something in the transfer? I don't know, but nothing has changed with the site information for awhile now. Color Code, LCN's are just a few things I'd check in the scanner. Were you at the airport or trying to monitor from near by? It's not a very strong system is why I ask.

 

[dave3825]

Do you have the Business service type enabled?

 

[datainmotion]

No idea, I self-program and don't depend on database uploads. Maybe something in the transfer? I don't know, but nothing has changed with the site information for awhile now. Color Code, LCN's are just a few things I'd check in the scanner. Were you at the airport or trying to monitor from near by? It's not a very strong system is why I ask.

I didn't self-program since we were on a trip and was monitoring from B Terminal. I just now enabled Full dB again and went into system hold on the scanner and no Southwest system. The Midway system has the conventional DMR channels on it, which I did hear while there.

 

[datainmotion]

Do you have the Business service type enabled?

Yes sir

 

[werinshades]

I didn't self-program since we were on a trip. I just now enabled Full dB again and went into system hold on the scanner and no Southwest system. The Midway system has the conventional DMR channels on it, which I did hear while there.

Yes, that's what they refer to as T-Point, which is the baggage alley under the terminal. When the system was implemented, they had issues with Cap+ coverage down in the concrete jungle, so they added a simplex DMR channel.

If everything is programmed correctly, you might have been getting interference in the terminal, or not in range of the system. I've been listening with the on-again, off-again storms today, and a weather event is always very interesting at airports.

 

[datainmotion]

Yes, that's what they refer to as T-Point, which is the baggage alley under the terminal. When the system was implemented, they had issues with Cap+ coverage down in the concrete jungle, so they added a simplex DMR channel.

If everything is programmed correctly, you might have been getting interference in the terminal, or not in range of the system. I've been listening with the on-again, off-again storms today, and a weather event is always very interesting at airports.

Just to be clear, this wasn't a reception issue, rather the system doesn't appear on the scanner's version of the dB at all.

 

[werinshades]

Just to be clear, this wasn't a reception issue, rather the system doesn't appear on the scanner's version of the dB at all.

I got it, can't help you there, just ruling out any issue with the information in the database.

 

[datainmotion]

I got it, can't help you there, just ruling out any issue with the information in the database.

Thank you - always appreciate your input!

 

[werinshades]

Thank you - always appreciate your input!

If you want to give it a shot and do it yourself, here's a good tutorial video:

 

[datainmotion]

If you want to give it a shot and do it yourself, here's a good tutorial video:

Yes - I do use Sentinel and ProScan's Favorites Editor as well. Much more flexible than Sentinel.

 

[dave3825]

And you don’t have to wait for Monday updates using @ProScan

 

[werinshades]

Yes - I do use Sentinel and ProScan's Favorites Editor as well. Much more flexible than Sentinel.

Whatever means you use to get there, and as @dave3825 said, you don't have to wait till Monday, or have a RR meltdown if the database isn't downloaded.