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Two possibilities come to mind...

1) Your scanner has the East and West simulcasts programmed as the same 'system'. SNOCOM police and fire traffic isn't carried on the East simulcast but your scanner has no way to know that; it will always look for the best sounding control channel in the list, so you might need to split your list. Try setting SERS up as two separate 'MOT' systems, SERS East and SERS West (or more than two if you include I/R sites which carry even less traffic). Only put West control channels in the West system and East control channels in the East system.

2) I thumbed through the manual for the Uniden 246 and it looks like you should only be programming control channels. Which means at minimum you'd have 8 frequencies for the East and West simulcast control channels or 18 frequencies if you also added the I/R sites (every channel of a SERS I/R can be a control channel). The scanner is capable of deriving which voice channel to use based on the data it hears from the control channel.

Have a look at the SERS website. The control channels are specifically identified, as are the I/R frequencies.

http://sers800.org/radio-systems/frequency-table/

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Yes my system is setup as zone 1 = west and zone 2 = East
Jay set it up that way when I bought it from him many years ago.
I have just added the latest feqs.
I only listen to SNOPAC
MSVL police and North county fire, very rarely North SCSO.
I get most of the info, but with these brush fires lately, I put on hold and listened. That is when I noticed I was missing stuff.

I thought that only one control code channel could be programed.
Maybe that is issue,
Should I have all the control channels talked about earlier in thread be in there also?

Correct, if the scanner allows it then add the additional control channels but only the ones that appear on the SERS website since the system is fully rebanded now.

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You are very quick to respond.
I was just going to say that all channels are re-branded now.

What is the uplink reqs, listed on the SERS site?
Do I need them?
I see that downlink, and control freqs are the same numbers posted earlier in this thread.

Whatever is current on the SERS site is what you should use.

Scanners don't need the uplink frequencies.

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Thanks for your help. Scanner seems to be working great, Listened long last night on one Police, did not miss one item.
With some searching on this site. I was told to go to another and find the firmware update.
my scanner was original way back from the beginning of 800 MHZ system for the county. Guessing years now (2002)?.
Updated the firmware and found lost communication with XP. Funny thing, tested it before starting (arc246 ver 1.2 registered) and then after update nothing.
Took me an hr of messing with it, and even updated ARC246 ver 3. (registered) still nothing.
Tried using my Windows 7 machine and bam worked first try.
Something with new firmware does not like XP.
With your link I replaced all my Freqs in the list to ones on website copy / paste.
Works great.

Posting this in case some else updates the firmware and needs help.

Ah, that firmware update was probably the real fix.

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