Al, are you, or anyone you know, able to receive Detroit's talk groups on
MPSCS? Or are you assuming it should be no problem? If so, I'd be
interested in hearing some details of your setup. While I agree with you
that MPSCS is a standard APCO-25 system, Detroit is not, it is a simulcast
sub system joined to MPSCS. Also, #701 is not "a tower", it is a cluster of
ten towers within this sub system, referred to as #701. Most everyone I
know using either Radio Shack (GRE Mfg), or Uniden digital scanners, is
having great difficulty receiving Detroit since they joined MPSCS.

Please advise!

Thanks,
Bill Crocker

p.s. 867.0750...I missed that one in my original post, but it doesn't
really matter, as it is a secondary control channel.


"Al Klein" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:47:11 -0500, "Vickki&Roger"
wrote:

I received a Pro 96 from Santa this year.It replaced my Pro 39. I would
like
to listen to the Detroit city police dept.but I was told that the scanner
can't decode the signals. Has anyone figured out how to program the
scanner
to do this? I have the win96 program and it is excellent.Any help will be
greatly appreciated. Detroit is where the real stuff happens and the local
police are getting boring.

This - http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=TRSDB&sid=100
- is the system. The talkgroups you want are down in the Wayne County
area under "Wayne County (82) - Detroit City Police Talkgroups". You
probably want to program the 701 tower - the control frequencies are
867.075, 868.5375, 868.725 and 868.9375. It's a plain old APCO25
system so you should have no problem.