No Voice Audio Palmetto 800 P25 Phase I

[Frank Jr.]

Haven't listened to my BCD996XT in several month. Yesterday I saw fire trucks roll through my neighborhood and I decided to turn the scanner on. Everything I listen to is on the Palmetto 800 P25 radio system here in Columbia SC. As luck would have it I heard nothing. The display indicates that it is scanning but no cigar on hearing anything. I manually entered the National Weather Service at 162.40 and this came in clear as a bell. FM radio works too. While manually scanning through the 800 MHz band I can hear the motorboat sound on certain frequencies. Would reprogramming the scanner help, change any settings maybe, or do I need to send it in for repair?

Thanks for any help or advice.........

 

[N6BY]

Maybe they changed the control channel frequency? On RadioReference it shows that there was an update today, but I don't know what changed.

I think your best bet would be to check to make sure all your frequencies are up to date.

 

[Comptech]

Time to reprogram Frank, all frequencies changed. Had to do the same here in TR.

 

[Frank Jr.]

Time to reprogram Frank, all frequencies changed. Had to do the same here in TR.

Yep, already done. I had to move my antenna and reprogram, scanning like before. I was concerned that they had encrypted the frequencies or went to APCO 25 Phase 2.

 

[Comptech]

Glad you got it scanning again. I am still not sure my Whistler 1080 is hearing everything it should.