Unication G5 - on Bell County TX - Programming Help

[shadowmmm]

Greeting everyone. Pretty new to this all so any help highly appreciated. So what I am trying to do is setup the G5 to mainly have Temple,Belton,Morgan's Point & Killeen TX Fire/PD and Sheriff/DPS when going towards Bryan/College Station passing by Waco. And if possible some Game Warden

This is what I have tried to setup

I know its a total mess and will take any info and pointers and help

I used Bell County (P25) info
Bell Simulcast
TxWARN
GATRRS
HOTRRS

and think I got it all weird and wrong

Also noticed today that the reception bar has the T with a lightning bolt and full bars( can not find what that means)

 

[brucebuck1010]

The only thing I can help you with at the moment, is that the symbol, I think is a torch - it is definitely a good thing, a sign that you are receiving from a tower. There are some good youtube videos out there that have helped me.

Edit - this is the best one. You'll need to watch it a few times and stop/start and follow along.

 

[shadowmmm]

Will check it out tonight.thank you

 

[shadowmmm]

If anyone wouldn't mind sharing their Austin or Houston .unipps would be great.

 

[kc5qih]

So is Bell County using P25 Phase 2 now or are they still on the old system? I'm seeing both in the database.

 

[shadowmmm]

they seem to use both.and are that simulcast

 

[IAmSixNine]

T meants its in normal Trunking mode. S means your on Site Trunking.
T means your on the right track.
Common issues i see new people run into is making sure you have the correct Site and RFSS info and the correct control channels for the site your trying to monitor.
With wide area systems you will typically only get talk groups close to you and no ones from across the state or 5 counties away.
Start with a system close to you with local PD and FD to get familiar with how to program. Then branch out to other systems.
These things take some getting used to and do require some pre planning of how you want to have zones and channel knobs set up. Since they dont have talk group hold or lock out make sure to leave your self options to have police or fire talk groups on knobs of their own, especially if they are channels you would want to hold on with a normal scanner.