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.
Thanks

There are some issues with reception of the new MPSCS (Michigan Public
Safety Communication System), of which the city of Detroit is now a part of.
While it is a Motorola APCO-25 digital system, Detroit, and Genesee County
are on what is called a simulcast system, which has been a little more
difficult to decode. It doesn't matter which digital scanner you have,
they're all having problems with Detroit.

Detroit is using 868.7250 as it's primary control channel. The secondary
control channels are 868.5375, and 868.9375. Plug them in your scanner, and
scan in open mode, see what you get. Depending on where you live, and what
you're using for an antenna, you might be successful! Let us know.

You can find more info here,
http://www.radioreference.com/module...=TRSDB&sid=100 including all
the other cities, and counties on MPSCS, as well as the Talk Groups!

There is also a forum for Michigan here,
http://www.radioreference.com/forums...ad.php?t=25992


Bill Crocker


"Vickki&Roger" wrote in message
...
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.
Thanks

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.

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.

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:07:59 -0500, "Bill Crocker"
wrote:

Al, are you, or anyone you know, able to receive Detroit's talk groups on
MPSCS?

No, Bill, the OP asked for info on Detroit, so I looked and posted. I
guess that just proves, once again, that nothing beats actual
experience.

I just put in the frequencies and i did hear a transmission from what
sounded like a fire dept. I have an old Radio shack ground plane with a 16
foot radius and three vertical elements.I can hear Police depts. aprox.20
miles away. I'll just keep plugging away and hope for the best. Thank you
guys for the info. You were a big help.
Thanks again!
Roger
"Bill Crocker" wrote in message
...
There are some issues with reception of the new MPSCS (Michigan Public
Safety Communication System), of which the city of Detroit is now a part
of. While it is a Motorola APCO-25 digital system, Detroit, and Genesee
County are on what is called a simulcast system, which has been a little
more difficult to decode. It doesn't matter which digital scanner you
have, they're all having problems with Detroit.

Detroit is using 868.7250 as it's primary control channel. The secondary
control channels are 868.5375, and 868.9375. Plug them in your scanner,
and scan in open mode, see what you get. Depending on where you live, and
what you're using for an antenna, you might be successful! Let us know.

You can find more info here,
http://www.radioreference.com/module...=TRSDB&sid=100 including
all the other cities, and counties on MPSCS, as well as the Talk Groups!

There is also a forum for Michigan here,
http://www.radioreference.com/forums...ad.php?t=25992


Bill Crocker


"Vickki&Roger" wrote in message
...
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.
Thanks