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would like some suggestions if possible on what this might be. My BC780 seems to be deaf on all trunked freqs. I have 4 Trunked systems on my 780. All it does is scream thru the feqs and never locks onto a control channel. All the conventional stuff works fine. I have had it hooked up to 2 diff. antennas to test this. One being a radio shack mag mount inside my place here the other being a ground plane outside on my deck. With the conventional freqs I'm pulling stuff well over 60+ miles away easily.The trunking freqs are right within a few miles from my location. My Pro-97's have no issue scanning them at all, using a RS 800mhz duckie. I have programmed and re-programmed the freqs. I can't figure this out for the life of me. All the obvious stuff i have checked on the scanner, so i ask for help from you out ther now please. Could it be something in the trunking capabilities is broken? God I hope not. Just seems odd that 4 different trunked systems will not come in at all.
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You've probably tried most of these:
1) Program the same freq as 'conventional' and see if it sounds good.
2) Make sure you push "TRUNK".
3) Trunking type = Motorola etc?
4) Control channel only - even if the 'plan' is wrong, it should at least sit on the control channel.
5) Cycle power.
6) Hard reset (2+9+MAN).
7) Delete the bank completely or program a different bank. (Using s/w or keypad to program?)
8) Monkey with the squelch.

There are a few failures that could kill trunking and not conventional, but I've never heard of one actually happening to anyone.

Flash

Could the CC be locked out somehow? If that doesn't work, I'd do a hard reset.