Hopefully someone who knows something about scanners can help. Previously, I bought a uniden bearcat that was analog and couldn’t scan truck channels hence oasis that Waukesha county uses. Recently I bought a uniden home patrol 2. It shows Waukesha public safety such as the sheriff, and local community channels from the police to the fire dispatch and so on, but there’s no audio. Weather radio works well, and sometimes when scanning all the channels it might do a fire dispatch from the county, yet silence on the law dispatch channels. I also tried changing the squelch. What should I do to get audio from the sheriff and law dispatch?
Here, you can contact my dad on TikTok and he may help you. If I knew as much as him, i’d probably help out as much as I could.
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(Edit) You may check RadioReference to see if your sheriff’s department is encrypted. If so, that could be part of the problem. If not, it could be type of system the department is using, the HomePatrol 2 can only handle P25 Phase 1&2, Conventional, and Trunking. If the system is Simulcast, you will need one of the SDS scanners, either the 100 or 200 depending on whether you want a handheld, or base-mobile scanner. I was talking to my dad while writing this edit, but if you want to ask him directly, the link is above. Have a good day.
I think you might be on an old system. Looks like WKSO is on WiPSN Talk Group 58917, unencrypted if I’m understanding this correct: Wisconsin Public Safety Network (WiPSN) TG Category: Waukesha County Communications (WCC)