Re-Band in Huntsville

[Caddop22]

I just heard (25-Sep-09) at about 8:00pm that an officer picked up his new Re-Banded radio. The dispatcher asked him why he was "Keying up with the wrong designator". He told her it was in fact a new radio!

I guess the cut over is almost done.

But I did hear them.....

I am listening to a Pro-97 and still hear them......

[N_ALSCAN]

The official changeover is supposed to occur on Sept 30/October 1st...

They are having NUMEROUS problems with the radios not being programmed with the correct radio ID.

This is causing problems with the dispatchers not knowing who is transmitting and also with individual officers when they attempt to "private-line" (individual private two-way talkgroup) with each other.

For general knowledge of
The CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) computer at the 911 center has a database that displays an alias of the radio ID to the dispatcher. That way the dispatcher is shown "Baker 3-11" instead of the radio's actual ID on the system, which would be a hex number such as 541B

Rob

[Caddop22]

Yeah, I have heard that quite often. They (the dispatchers) ask for key ups all the time. They don't get the proper ID's.

Thanks for the info about the time frame.

check your pm also.

Ken

Originally Posted by N_ALSCAN

The official changeover is supposed to occur on Sept 30/October 1st...

They are having NUMEROUS problems with the radios not being programmed with the correct radio ID.

This is causing problems with the dispatchers not knowing who is transmitting and also with individual officers when they attempt to "private-line" (individual private two-way talkgroup) with each other.

For general knowledge of
The CAD (Computer Aided Dispatch) computer at the 911 center has a database that displays an alias of the radio ID to the dispatcher. That way the dispatcher is shown "Baker 3-11" instead of the radio's actual ID on the system, which would be a hex number such as 541B

Rob

[Caddop22]

Will the Re-Band affect the TGID's"?

[WB4ULV]

Originally Posted by Caddop22

I just heard (25-Sep-09) at about 8:00pm that an officer picked up his new Re-Banded radio. The dispatcher asked him why he was "Keying up with the wrong designator". He told her it was in fact a new radio!

I guess the cut over is almost done.

But I did hear them.....

I am listening to a Pro-97 and still hear them......

These are the new Huntsville Public Safety rebanding 800 trunking frequencies. The rebanding should be taking place soon, but I don't know when.

HUNTSVILLE PUBLIC SAFETY REBANDING 800 TRUNKING
THE REMAINDER OF PREVIOUSLY KNOWN 800 FREQUENCIES ARE THE SAME.
* DENOTES DATA CHANNEL


OLD ------------------ NEW
860.9375 ------- 854.1625 *
860.7125 ------- 851.2625 *
859.7125 ------- 854.7125 *
856.2375* ------ NO CHANGE
866.1375 ------- 854.9625
866.2625 ------- 854.0625
860.9875 ------- 856.3625
860.4875 ------- 855.6625
860.4375 ------- 855.6125
860.2625 ------- 856.6375
859.2625 ------- 851.1375
858.4375 ------- 857.0375
857.7375 ------- 855.9375

[AlabamaRS]

I thought the freqs would just drop by 15mhz... 866.xx to 851.xx etc???

[WB4ULV]

Originally Posted by AlabamaRS

I thought the freqs would just drop by 15mhz... 866.xx to 851.xx etc???

Don't know, but these are the frequencies they're going to.

[AlabamaRS]

Ok, make it harder to "plan ahead"

[morganAL]

Originally Posted by AlabamaRS

I thought the freqs would just drop by 15mhz... 866.xx to 851.xx etc???

That only applies if the channels were in the NPSPAC portion of the band (866-869 MHz).

[AlabamaRS]

ok, With so much info going around, it doesn't take much to get confused
Paul

[WB4ULV]

I already placed the frequencies into Freescan. Now I'll wait untll the channels don't work and then upload the new ones into the BCT15.

[Caddop22]

If anyone has an update as when the cut over will or has happened, please keep us informed.

I noticed that on 30-Sep-09 the entire system went down for about a half hour, but did come back online and I was able to hear all TGID's as normal.

Thanks for any input.

[Caddop22]

Are there any updates as of yet?

Thanks for any help

[pilotman1260]

No they are still running the old system as of tonight as that is what i have programmed in at the moment,so the old freqs are active for now Oct 13.

[WB4ULV]

Rebanding is done as of 11/17/09.