Overnight GSP Metro armed robbery chase into Gwinnett Audio

[Casey]

Recorded this from my Pro-197 last night around 4am. GSP Atlanta pursue a robber that took someones iphone and stuff near Smiths Olde Bar in midtown...victim tracked the phone and GSP picked up the trail and got the baddies. Gun found in car in addition to the property taken. I only got to the scanner by the time the chase left city limits. The Atlanta Digital System reached pretty good all the way out to Pleasant Hill Rd but I think they lost portable coverage when they got out of the vehicles after the PIT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrnwcdpmu9U

[procopper7005]

Originally Posted by Casey

Recorded this from my Pro-197 last night around 4am. GSP Atlanta pursue a robber that took someones iphone and stuff near Smiths Olde Bar in midtown...victim tracked the phone and GSP picked up the trail and got the baddies. Gun found in car in addition to the property taken. I only got to the scanner by the time the chase left city limits. The Atlanta Digital System reached pretty good all the way out to Pleasant Hill Rd but I think they lost portable coverage when they got out of the vehicles after the PIT.

GSP Atlanta Pursuit into Gwinnett 10/13/12 Robbery Suspect - YouTube

It would be nice to have a live feed of the GSP talk group. You can hear a chase nearly every 24 hours, they get into a lot of action in the Atlanta area.

[MTS2000des]

Originally Posted by Casey

Recorded this from my Pro-197 last night around 4am. GSP Atlanta pursue a robber that took someones iphone and stuff near Smiths Olde Bar in midtown...victim tracked the phone and GSP picked up the trail and got the baddies. Gun found in car in addition to the property taken. I only got to the scanner by the time the chase left city limits. The Atlanta Digital System reached pretty good all the way out to Pleasant Hill Rd but I think they lost portable coverage when they got out of the vehicles after the PIT.

GSP Atlanta Pursuit into Gwinnett 10/13/12 Robbery Suspect - YouTube

The Atlanta DTRS has some of the best portable and mobile coverage of any metro TRS in recent years. It is very balanced, where you can hear it (and this is with a system radio, mind you) you can talk to it. IMO, it has BETTER coverage where I am in Cobb county than Cobb's DTRS, and audio is always flawless.

On the northside I have copied it reliably on my XTS5000 with a half wave elevated feed dipole well into south Forsyth county on the NE side, in Cobb, Kennesaw is about the cutoff. It reaches well into west Cobb, Powder Springs/Austell, and on the southside into Henry county.

I never hear Atlanta subscribers (except East Point PD) get the digital garble getting into the system as I commonly hear (and experience as a user) on the Cobb DTRS.

Atlanta COMM and the Motorola FTR team did a great job on this system. But that's what happens when you actually get the system you spec and pay for.

[procopper7005]

Originally Posted by MTS2000des

The Atlanta DTRS has some of the best portable and mobile coverage of any metro TRS in recent years. It is very balanced, where you can hear it (and this is with a system radio, mind you) you can talk to it. IMO, it has BETTER coverage where I am in Cobb county than Cobb's DTRS, and audio is always flawless.

On the northside I have copied it reliably on my XTS5000 with a half wave elevated feed dipole well into south Forsyth county on the NE side, in Cobb, Kennesaw is about the cutoff. It reaches well into west Cobb, Powder Springs/Austell, and on the southside into Henry county.

I never hear Atlanta subscribers (except East Point PD) get the digital garble getting into the system as I commonly hear (and experience as a user) on the Cobb DTRS.

Atlanta COMM and the Motorola FTR team did a great job on this system. But that's what happens when you actually get the system you spec and pay for.

Given that GSP will be adding 75 to 100 troopers in Metro Atlanta soon I wonder how they will handle the fact that much of Gwinnett, parts of Dekalb and Cobb...do not have good Atlanta DTRS coverage or any coverage at all?

The press release said the troopers will be covering all the interstates in Cobb, Dekalb, Atlanta, Clayton, Gwinnett. This should mean a good increase in radio traffic, chases, etc.

[MTS2000des]

Originally Posted by procopper7005

Given that GSP will be adding 75 to 100 troopers in Metro Atlanta soon I wonder how they will handle the fact that much of Gwinnett, parts of Dekalb and Cobb...do not have good Atlanta DTRS coverage or any coverage at all?

The press release said the troopers will be covering all the interstates in Cobb, Dekalb, Atlanta, Clayton, Gwinnett. This should mean a good increase in radio traffic, chases, etc.

Well, if we actually had a working, unified Smartzone OmniLink system instead of 10 differently separate little kingdoms, GSP would have no problems. But coordinating wide area talkgroups, ID's and such require...what did a wise man once say...herding cats? GSP does have talkgroups and ID's on all the metro P25 trunking systems.

Most likely they can use MotoBridge and bridge talkgroups on the various systems since ISSI roaming isn't online yet between the various P25 TRS'.
This would also allow all the other disparate VHF, TRBO, NXDN, two cups and a string that everyone else is using to "all talk to each other". At least that is what was PROMISED by a certain vendor.

Methinks cellphones will get more use.

[procopper7005]

Originally Posted by MTS2000des

Well, if we actually had a working, unified Smartzone OmniLink system instead of 10 differently separate little kingdoms, GSP would have no problems. But coordinating wide area talkgroups, ID's and such require...what did a wise man once say...herding cats? GSP does have talkgroups and ID's on all the metro P25 trunking systems.

Most likely they can use MotoBridge and bridge talkgroups on the various systems since ISSI roaming isn't online yet between the various P25 TRS'.
This would also allow all the other disparate VHF, TRBO, NXDN, two cups and a string that everyone else is using to "all talk to each other". At least that is what was PROMISED by a certain vendor.

Methinks cellphones will get more use.

I guess they could always fire up the old VHF wide band GSP used to use in metro Atlanta. LOL JK

I'm sure someone in state govt has thought through this problem although my fingers arent crossed.

[SkiBob]

I started hearing a lot more GSP activity on the Cobb System today. I spoke with a trooper last week. He confirmed they have hired many more and they should be in place at anytime.

[Casey]

Someone needs to go into the Cobb P25 system entry and change 31619 as the main Dispatch for Post 9, it's mislabeled as a public works category and called Ops...it's definitely dispatch...very busy this morning with Cobb County GSP units calling Marietta Base (some units are calling this Atlanta by accident). This talkgroup is also being transmitted as I listen on the UASI system for those who want to monitor.

[MTS2000des]

Originally Posted by Casey

Someone needs to go into the Cobb P25 system entry and change 31619 as the main Dispatch for Post 9, it's mislabeled as a public works category and called Ops...it's definitely dispatch...very busy this morning with Cobb County GSP units calling Marietta Base (some units are calling this Atlanta by accident). This talkgroup is also being transmitted as I listen on the UASI system for those who want to monitor.

So they are no longer using Troop C on the ATDTRS for Cobb? I hear this on my Atlanta radio and it's very active as well.

[Casey]

I've listened to the new Post 9 Marietta channel for a few days now it's only GSP units basically north of the river on 75 and up into 575 before Cherokee, there have been a few units calling out on 285 within Cobb boundaries around the cloverleaf...GSP Atlanta on the Atlanta DTRS is all other troopers in the metro area. There are a lot of 10-38s on this new channel...i've verified it as well on that route...lots of Troopers in Cobb now. The radio operators are still at headquarters in Atlanta, I suspect they are running it through the UASI and then onto Cobb as I don't think they have a hardline from headquarters to the Cobb system.

[MTS2000des]

Thanks Casey, I'll start listening to it on the Cobb side. Someone was asking me about GSP operations in Cobb, and I ASSumed it was all on the Atlanta DTRS as it has in the past. Forgot that they were "reactivating" the old Marietta POST and adding troopers up this way like we had back in the early 1990's.

[KI4RDO]

I've been on 75 in the morning the past few days and gsp is going nuts between windy hill and Barrett you will see no less than 10 troopers in each direction

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[Metrofire31]

It's was on the local news last evening. GSP is adding dozens of troopers and assigning a concentration of them to patrol I-75 in Cobb County due to the severity of the backups caused by the volume of traffic accidents between the river and points north in I75. They intend to leave this concentration of troopers in this area for the next several years at which time they will evaluate how successful it has been in smoothing traffic.

At some point in the future, perhaps next year, they plan to do the same thing on I-85 in the Gwinnett/DeKalb stretch where the bulk of the traffic is.

Personally, I'm glad to see this. Driving in Atlanta has long been a crap shoot in which everyday, we are all witness to reckless drivers, weaving in and out between cars, multiple lane changes, HOV lane violations, etc. I laughed earlier this year when the State announced it was planning to raise the speed limit on I-285 (and maybe all interstates) from 55 to 65.