Westchester County Trunked System

[W2MR]

I'm programming a BC780XLT scanner with the Westchester County T-Band Trunked System.The RR listing shows two sets of Base/Spacing/Offset data. Should I program both (the scanner will accept three) or assume that the top listings are for the North System and the bottom listings are for the South System?

 

[GTR8000]

Program them both. The South zone has a 470 MHz frequency assigned to it.

 

[W2MR]

Thank you. It's working in the search mode.

 

[Sonic1131]

Yesterday I purchased a brand new Uniden Home patrol. The Westchester County Trunking is not working in the scanner.

Do I have to change a setting for it to work ?

 

[W2MR]

Sorry, I dont know. Maybe someone else can help. Perhaps the Uniden scanner forum?

 

[GTR8000]

Yesterday I purchased a brand new Uniden Home patrol. The Westchester County Trunking is not working in the scanner.

Do I have to change a setting for it to work ?

The system looks correct in Sentinel. Make sure you have the service types enabled.

Menu > Select Service Type

Depending on what you want to listen to, the system uses the following service types, which should be enabled:

Emergency Ops
EMS-Talk
Fire Dispatch
Fire-Talk
Hospital
Multi-Dispatch
Multi-Tac
Multi-Talk
Public Works
Transportation

Then press Accept.

 

[W2MR]

You see, smart people here!

 

[Sonic1131]

Thank you both !

Yes that was the issue. I enabled Fire Talk ect. All seems to work.

Your reply is appreciated .

 

[GTR8000]

Thank you both !

Yes that was the issue. I enabled Fire Talk ect. All seems to work.

Your reply is appreciated .

Excellent, glad you're up and running. I believe the HP-1 has only a few of those service tags enabled by default.

 

[GTR8000]

FYI, after looking at the system the other day, I realized most of the function tags (service tags on the HP-1) were incorrect. I changed them last night, and also reorganized the system slightly. If you're scanning the system in the HP-1 from the main database, you might notice a slight change when you update the HP-1's database on Monday.

The system now uses the following function tags/service types:

Emergency Ops
EMS-Tac
Fire Dispatch
Fire-Tac
Hospital
Public Works
Transportation

No longer used:
EMS-Talk
Fire-Talk
Multi-Dispatch
Multi-Tac
Multi-Talk

 

[Sonic1131]

Great thanks.