Hi Bob, I am referring to VHF/UHF trunking systems that you have to set a
base or offset to track them.  I take it that KDPS is still having
coverage issues, and the question fo the new cite is still in the air?





On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Bob Tinney wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> I'm not sure about this, but I think that you have to set up a different
> bank for each control channel.  I've been able to get my pro96 to monitor
> only one channel per bank, but I may be missing something.
>
> Some signals are encrypted, and the number of encrypted signals seems to be
> growing, so maybe soon, the pro96 will be useless, but the encrypted
> stations do have more trouble being understood, so maybe they won't force
> all trafic to be encrypted.
> 73
> Bob, [log in to unmask], K8LR
> My grandfather always said,
> "A shot in the glass is better than one in the ass!"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Kenyon" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Bob Tinney" <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 12:37 PM
> Subject: Re: setting base/offsets with the Pro-96
>
>
> Hi Bob, that has been my experience with the MPSCS here in Michigan.  Has
> Kalamazoo gone all encrypted yet?  I see that they added  the old freqs
> from the old system with MPSCS, and that would be cite 336 I beleive.  The
> Detroit system is starting to have people move over to it, and I have had
> mixed results with coverage, and I am just outside of Detroit.  What I'm
> trying to figure out is this base/offset function.  I know how to do it
> for a system with just one, but multiple base/offsets is another story.
>