I have it programmed onto the scanner. I can see the channel name (FireEMS Dispatch), it's like that on Radio Refrence too, but I can't hear anything from the scanner. I pulled up the Broadcastify for it and I could hear county talking on it but from the scanner I couldn't. Volume is all the way up & I followed the above document. Do I have to adjust the squelch on the scanner? or is there another reason why I can't hear it.
This is the system you are wanting to monitor. Am I correct?
Montgomery County (P25) Trunking System Profile
www.radioreference.com
Both sites on that system are labeled as being ‘Simulcast”. This can severely impact your ability to monitor a system using simulcast sites. See this Wiki page for details on the problems of monitoring simulcast sites.
wiki.radioreference.com
Simulcast problems are extremely location specific. Sometimes, moving a scanner even just a few feet in one or another direction can make the difference between being able to monitor the system, or hear nothing at all, except perhaps garbled and broken audio. Since you are seeing a talk group on the display, but with no audio, is likely a sign that simulcast issues are keeping you from being able to hear clear audio from the system.
Unfortunately, the Whistler scanners, including your TRX-2 are often affected badly when monitoring sites that are simulcast. The only scanners available that are made to deal effectively with these problems are Uniden’s SDS100 and SDS200. The feed provider may be using one of those models, or possibly using one of the SDR dongles and software to monitor the system using a PC, which is also effective dealing with simulcast. There is also the possibility that his (or her) location is in an area where the conflicting signals from multiple transmit sites are blocked, or at least attenuated enough due to distance (from the sites), or terrain (such as hills, or a cluster of buildings are between the feed provider’s location and the sites so that signals from only one transmitter site are strong enough to allow clear reception. Since a number of the talkgroups on the system are tagged as being available on the ‘calls’ platform of Broadcastify, I suspect a PC, along with one of the SDR dongles may be in use. (See this:
Montgomery County Fire and EMS - Digital Live Audio Feed and
Montgomery County Pennsylvania Live Audio Feeds ). I see that the feed provider has listed their email address for giving feedback or asking a question. You might ask what is being used for the feed to get some idea if you can somehow configure your TRX-2 to listen.
