MoCo scanner falls silent

ComeGet · Jun 10, 2017

About 36 hours or so ago I stopped getting any traffic on my scanner in Montgomery County. No police, EFRS, Ride-On, courtesy patrol, nothing.

I thought at first my old Pro-96 was finally kicking it but the WX still works fine. And, I tried listening online with Broadcastify and Radio Reference and their feeds were silent, too, at least while I was checking.

They rebanded a few years ago so I doubt they're doing it again, but I guess it's possible. Or, maybe gone encrypted? I could see that or the police and fire, but, not for things like the bus, etc.

Anyone know or have thoughts on it?

whistlersmother · Jun 10, 2017

Maybe the feeds went subliminal Spanish and you're just not in tune?

GTOGUNNER · Jun 10, 2017

Encrypted would just give digital noise?

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3paul10 · Jun 10, 2017

See any black helicopters in the area?

markgrutz · Jun 10, 2017

I am over in Columbia nearer to MoCo than usual. I pulled out the scanner and stood outside for a minute, I can get the MoCo system, but it comes in scratchy. I only have the control and back-up control channels in it, so I can attest that the system is up and working, at least on one of the CCs. I would go back and double check that you didn't skip or lock out a control channel by accident. I have done that many times on the Pro-96. There is also no mention of change on Radio Reference, or chatter on the forum in regards to MoCo.

Mark

ComeGet · Jun 10, 2017

Thanks, Mark. I checked and all the lockout lists are empty. I found I can go to search and get the MoCo police and EMS, but the scan isn't working for some reason.

It's very possible I hit something that threw it off, but I can't figure out what. My next step is to just reprogram it as I did after rebanding and hope that clears out whatever the problem is.

Part of what threw me is that I did not, and still am not, hearing anything come across online through Broadcastify from MoCo, but it's obviously there because you're hearing it and I am, too, using search.

CypherPunk · Jun 10, 2017

154.160?

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swinokur · Jun 10, 2017

they are 800 mhz trunked IIRC.

is the old VHF frequency still active?

Alan3413 · Jun 10, 2017

North Korean missiles inbound

swinokur · Jun 10, 2017

or Russians

Cyndi59 · Jun 10, 2017

ComeGet said:
About 36 hours or so ago I stopped getting any traffic on my scanner in Montgomery County. No police, EFRS, Ride-On, courtesy patrol, nothing.

I thought at first my old Pro-96 was finally kicking it but the WX still works fine. And, I tried listening online with Broadcastify and Radio Reference and their feeds were silent, too, at least while I was checking.

They rebanded a few years ago so I doubt they're doing it again, but I guess it's possible. Or, maybe gone encrypted? I could see that or the police and fire, but, not for things like the bus, etc.

Anyone know or have thoughts on it?

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On the programmable I'm still picking up U.S. Park Police at: 166.9250mhz

motorcoachdoug · Jun 11, 2017

I am scanning monkey county here in aspen hill area with no trouble at all. I have a Uniden BCD996p2, BCD796D, RS Pro 197, Pro 96 and a Whistler 1095. Also scanning MD 1st Response, plus i can pick up a few feds plus a some others that i want to pick up as well. If you need it reprogrammed shoot me a PM. They did not reband again but they sure as heck did add a few Talk Groups to their police and fire channels including hospital med channels and contact to EMRC, not to mention a whole new system for their school bus fleet..

ComeGet · Jun 11, 2017

MCD, thanks for your offer. I'll hit you up if I get stumped. As I recall, the programming process using ARC96 wasn't that terrible back after rebanding. But, I'd rather find the problem than reprogram if possible. And, yeah, it's clear that the problem is with my radio (or me) and not with MoCo, whatever their other problems are, heh.

For those of you familiar with the Pro-96, here's something else I noticed last night that might provide a clue to what's wrong - In scan mode, the channel numbers normally sort of fade and have an underscore under them as the scanner passes through them. That is not happening now. The numbers are just all static with no visible activity during scan.

When I go to search, in the bank where police/fire is located, the numbers do fade and get the underscore as they're received.

Jimbob2.0 · Jun 11, 2017

BeoBill · Jun 11, 2017

Maybe they DID finally secede this time.

motorcoachdoug · Jun 12, 2017

are you running on battery power or have it plugged in? I do have the win96 to reprogram if need be

ComeGet · Jul 23, 2017

Thanks again for the replies.

I dropped out because a couple of days after my last post it started working normally again.

Then, yesterday, it did the same thing again. It seems like a fault of some kind for it to behave this way.

I'm fairly certain I haven't accidentally hit any settings to cause this because I don't monkey around with it. Once I got it set up for my area I left it alone.

I usually use it plugged in, occasionally on battery power when I'm out on the deck, but that's rare.

I might reset it to factory then try reprogramming it and see what happens.

lawdog89 · Jul 23, 2017

After listening to that stupid bull**** 10 hours a day I wouldn't go near a scanner. Why would you want to listen to that?

Mr H · Jul 28, 2017

Just buy a new crystal.

:innocent0

lawdog89 · Jul 28, 2017

I was going to run over to Radio Shack and buy the new Realistic Patrolman Pro-47 scanner....oh yeah.

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