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This is why I posted. I am really confused and tend to think that my reality check is bouncing. When I try to monitor site 5239 with my PRO-95 it reads 217.8275. When I use my PSR-500 it seems to center at 217.805. Thanks for the feed back.

But do both of those scanners use an AUTO step feature? The 996XT won't even pick up the voice channels unless I specify 6.25 steps. If I use 12.5khz steps the audio is clearly off frequency.

The PRO-95 has no step options. I have set the PRO-500 to flex. I really need to nail down the actual transmitted frequency and the band plan will adjust as needed. What I posted seems to work for Unitrunker and Trunkview for 39 sites in the Puget Sound area and a few across the pass. The trunking step does seem to be 12.5. Some sites have both low and high channels which really causes a problem with Trunkview. Most sites have either 2 or 3 voice channels. Only 1 site so far has Chan 211.

I can't find the step settings on the 396X so I'll assume it's set to "auto" for each band. Close Call, that is. Search step settings are easy to find.

Sorry Taco, I was referring to the custom search function. I don't think you can specify any settings for close call other than the bands and the conditional storage, etc.

Doesn't mean they shouldn't exist either. One of the last times I used it the scanner stopped on 154.575 but it probably meant to stop on 154.57.

Quite active today. I think all the area repeaters are on today. Have at least 6 voice channels active.

Activity has increased again. I have confirmed that the gas folks are now using the repeaters. I have about a dozen or so channels programmed and quite a few are active on a daily basis.

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PSE is using 6.25khz steps and the SDR proves it. That's what I get for listening to the RR folks.

I finally did some playing around. Managed to pull up a spectrum on a local site, regardless of the "step" value, it's centered on a 6.25 kHz splinter: 217.86875 kHz / ch070 / 110.9 Hz. Other sites I could hear seem to also be on splinters. Of course the bandwidth on the scanner is so wide it doesn't matter what you type in :)

The two bandplan segments could be used to shift the freqs on or off the splinters, I don't have data to say either way.

What I can see from the raw data seems to confirm Nick's bandplans, save subtracting 6.25 kHz from each base. That gives channels 41-80 and 141-180. I suspect but can't prove that the lower channels have 110.9 and the higher ones 146.2 tone.

TrunkView has at least two issues with the custom channel list:
a) It truncates the list any time you edit the profile.
b) It shows some channels that are in the profile as 0.0 MHz, like it got lost in the look-up process.
Very annoying.

Blundered into a few of their sites, I think many of them are low-level and only a few on the usual peaks. I'd appreciate if anyone can confirm where 5119 and 5081 are; I suspect Gold for the first based on coverage.
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More data:
Freq [MHz] Site
217.83125 5081
217.65625 5091
217.53125 5099
217.81875 50B1 Cougar Mtn Bellevue
217.64375 50B9
217.76875 50C9 Electron?
217.76875 50D1 Redmond
217.54375 50E9
217.78125 50F1 S or W Seattle
217.69375 50F9
217.84375 5119
217.50625 5121
217.74375 5131
217.56875 5169
217.85625 5191
217.63125 5199 Midway
217.65625 51A9
217.90625 51B1
217.71875 51B9 Bothell
217.74375 51C1
217.86875 51C9 Issaquah
217.59375 51D1
217.68125 51E9 North Bend
217.88125 5201
217.51875 5209
217.50625 5219
217.61875 5231
217.80625 5239 Renton
217.73125 5241
217.93125 5259 Lake Tapps

I show 5119 as Bremerton and 5081 as my 3rd Renton site. These are based only on where I was when I found them. I do not think they do business in Bremerton, but it may be more on Vashon.

My data so far...

- TrunkView Site information -


Site SysID Control channel
(MHz) Site SysID Control channel
(MHz)
Portland 3 4069 217.61250
Bellingham 110.9 5151 217.68000
Yakima 1 196.6 4081 161.92500
Tacoma S 1 110.9 5169 217.56750
Richland 2 196.6 40B9 161.91500
Cle Elum 146.2 5179 217.60500
Wapato 1 165.5 40D1 161.90000
Bellingham 2 110.9 5189 217.69250
Yakima 3 196.6 40D9 161.86250
SmokyPt 110.9 5191 217.85500
Yakima 2 196.6 40F1 161.85000
SeaTac 1 146.2 5199 217.63000
Portland 1 165.5 41C9 161.86500
Everett 2 146.2 51A9 217.65500
Portland 4 165.5 41D9 152.12000
Mt Vernon 3 146.2 51B1 217.90500
Portland 2 196.6 4889 161.91500
Woodinville 1 110.9 51B9 217.71750
Renton 3 110.9 5081 217.93000
Olympia 110.9 51C1 217.74250
Centralia 110.9 5091 217.65500
Issaquah 110.9 51C9 217.86750
Centralia 2 146.2 5099 217.53000
Port Orchard 1 110.9 51D1 217.59250
Mt Vernon 2 110.9 50A1 217.86750
N Bend 1 146.2 51E9 217.68000
Crossroads 1 110.9 50B1 217.81750
Bonney Lake 1 146.2 5201 217.88000
SeaTac 3 110.9 50B9 217.64250
Snoq Pass 110.9 5211 217.61750
Puyallup 2 110.9 50C9 217.76750
Puyallup 3 146.2 5219 217.55500
Crossroads 2 146.2 50D1 217.76750
Tacoma S 2 146.2 5231 217.61750
Puyallup 5 146.2 50E9 217.54250
Renton 1 146.2 5239 217.80500
Renton 6 146.2 50F1 217.78000
Ryegrass 1 110.9 5249 217.56750
SeaTac 2 146.2 50F9 217.69250
Puyallup 1 146.2 5259 217.79250
Bremerton 1 110.9 5119 217.84250
Renton 4 110.9 50B1ext 5ZZZ 217.84250
Everett 1 110.9 5131 217.74250
Kelso 1 110.9 51A1 217.60750
Bellingham 3 110.9 5141 217.74250
Richland 165.5 4091 161.87000
Mt Vernon 1 5149 217.60500

Total: 47 sites

They cover Kitsap county, mostly TG 6010.

https://pse.com/aboutpse/PseNewsroom/Me ... ea_map.pdf

My guess would be Gold Mountain; they had a site there for the 900 EDACS system. I remember hearing gas dispatches for West Pierce County