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Hi ladies and Gents, I was wondering if anyone might be of service. I recently purchase a Uniden sds100 and now I can hear frequencies on p25 at Sea-Tac specifically maint, from about 5 miles away conservatively. But not on my TRX1 and I have the most recent update....any suggestions? TY
 

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Hi ladies and Gents, I was wondering if anyone might be of service. I recently purchase a Uniden sds100 and now I can hear frequencies on p25 at Sea-Tac specifically maint, from about 5 miles away conservatively. But not on my TRX1 and I have the most recent update....any suggestions? TY
Can you provide your location? City, or county, and state is sufficient. Also, a link to the system you are referring to in the database would help.

If the system you are trying to monitor uses a simulcast site, the SDS100 is designed to handle simulcast systems. The TRX-1 definitely is not. See this Wiki page for more specifics on the issues simulcast systems provide to scanners.
 

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Can you provide your location? City, or county, and state is sufficient. Also, a link to the system you are referring to in the database would help.

If the system you are trying to monitor uses a simulcast site, the SDS100 is designed to handle simulcast systems. The TRX-1 definitely is not. See this Wiki page for more specifics on the issues simulcast systems provide to scanners.
Hi Steve, I travel to work from pierce to king counties and I constantly monitor traffic on the way to work. Generally I try monitor when I am on the 167 near Kent and the day I was able to hear traffic from SeaTac was in the area of Newcastle. I can hear flights and air bands from SeaTac and police, but never maint or other semilunar channels. Additionally, I can hear some of the trunk channels like Alaska Air and Delta, and Fed Det too. Kindly
 

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Can you provide your location? City, or county, and state is sufficient. Also, a link to the system you are referring to in the database would help.

If the system you are trying to monitor uses a simulcast site, the SDS100 is designed to handle simulcast systems. The TRX-1 definitely is not. See this Wiki page for more specifics on the issues simulcast systems provide to scanners.
 

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Hi Steve, I travel to work from pierce to king counties and I constantly monitor traffic on the way to work. Generally I try monitor when I am on the 167 near Kent and the day I was able to hear traffic from SeaTac was in the area of Newcastle. I can hear flights and air bands from SeaTac and police, but never maint or other semilunar channels. Additionally, I can hear some of the trunk channels like Alaska Air and Delta, and Fed Det too.
Alaska Air is on this DMR system, according to the database.
Delta is on a different DMR system.
Simulcast is rarely a problem in DMR systems. I have not seen a number of posts regarding that.

Drawing a blank here. Fed Det? Do you mean the Federal Detention Center at Sea-Tac? That's an older system type, Motorola Type II, While their talkgroups are shown to be digital, that;s not a simulcast problem maker.
 

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Those talkgroups are from this system:

That site is Simulcast.
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Each of those blue markers represent the location of one of the sites used in the Simulcast. Though radio waves move extremely fast, the transmissions from these various sites receive enough out of sync to cause problems for most scanners. The radios issued to the users of the system are equipped to deal with that, at a cost of multiple times that of consumer grade scanners.

Uniden's SDS series scanners are the only ones currently available that can deal with simulcast, For all the other scanners, it boils down to location & luck. If you are fortunate enough to be at a spot where you are only getting the signals from one tower (the rest being blocked by terrain, buildings, or perhaps something in your residence (metal siding, foil backed insulation in the walls, something large & metallic near your scanner (say a metal file cabinet, or maybe that refrigerator in the kitchen on the other side of the wall).

The Simulcast wiki page, linked above, goes into more detail on the subject, I have seen a couple of threads in this (Whistler) forum of things people have tried. A few of them state that it did help some (for their TRX scanner, but there's no guarantee that any of these suggestions would work well in your area,
 
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