Race weekend starting Friday, today

[mgolden2]

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There may be some interesting listening to the Ks statewide system today, Friday, thru Sunday. With NASCAR in town that means a lot of extra KHP troopers from around the state will be in town, and I'd bet that some of them like to listen to the radio traffic from their home area. And if I understand the system correctly, even if they are from Topeka, the radio traffic from the Topeka area will follow the trooper here. Hence the possible good listening this weekend. We may hear traffic from all over the state of KS thanks to the troopers who keep at least one radio on their home channel!

Matt in KCK
N0ZOJ

 

[bear780ks]

Have Fun up there..

And with all the troopers in the area is kind of Like when all of them come here for the State Fair We go from about 6 troopers in the Co. to about little over or under a 100 it's fun talking to some of the Guys either at the Fair or at the Hotel were they stay at that are from other parts of the State it's even neater when they know the Trooper that I use to Ride with.. Here in the Co.. Ra

 

[factorone]

For those of you interested, keep an ear open on the Speedway UHF stuff. I'll be dispatching the Fire/Rescue stuff at the track today and tomorrow, and there's always something interesting/bizarre to listen to.

 

[bear780ks]

Cool my Cousin works on Laurence P.D. he said there's never a dull moment, I wished i could listen with scanner but to far in range so I listen to traffic up there via Scanner App..

 

[mgolden2]

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And that fire freq is 452.300 dpl 606 and it is a repeater

Matt

 

[KCoax]

KHP are using Troop A Special Events 1 for event traffic.

 

[factorone]

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And that fire freq is 452.300 dpl 606 and it is a repeater

Matt

It isn't much of a "repeater", but it covers the grounds all the way out to the west end, plus a little further (maybe half a mile).

While I've had down time here , I've been sleuthing to find more of the stuff used here for operations & support, and came up with the following (in addition to the existing 16 channels):

451.5000 - DCS 662 - Law Enforcement
451.8750 - DCS 226 - Infield Fire/Crash Rescue (actual race fire ops)
452.1000 - DCS 047 - Operations (event facilities, trash/refuse, etc.)
452.5000 - DCS 152 - Parking

Unknowns
451.7750 - ???

These five freqs are licensed to NASCAR at every facility, but I haven't noticed any activity on them this weekend:

462.2125
462.2875
462.3625
462.4375
463.2625

There are three more channels used on some of the radios here that I haven't been able to chase down yet (ushers, ticketing, and information), but my guess is they're in the 450-460 UHF range. If I could get ahold of one of their handhelds, I could get them pretty well figured out.

 

[nec911]

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There may be some interesting listening to the Ks statewide system today, Friday, thru Sunday. With NASCAR in town that means a lot of extra KHP troopers from around the state will be in town, and I'd bet that some of them like to listen to the radio traffic from their home area. And if I understand the system correctly, even if they are from Topeka, the radio traffic from the Topeka area will follow the trooper here. Hence the possible good listening this weekend. We may hear traffic from all over the state of KS thanks to the troopers who keep at least one radio on their home channel!

Matt in KCK
N0ZOJ

While it is nice to be able to listen to all those different areas on the scanner, as a regular user of the system the radio drag problem is really a serious issue that they need to clear up. Unfortunately, there is not enough room on most of the towers for that many continuously affiliated talk groups, which means that the users can be limited. It sucks for interop when that happens.

But then again, it is as a scanner buff to hear all the traffic, but when the stuff hits the fan those open slots on the tower sure are missed.

Nelson

 

[mgolden2]

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Good point! I hope the system works properly when that happens.

 

[factorone]

While it is nice to be able to listen to all those different areas on the scanner, as a regular user of the system the radio drag problem is really a serious issue that they need to clear up. Unfortunately, there is not enough room on most of the towers for that many continuously affiliated talk groups, which means that the users can be limited. It sucks for interop when that happens.

But then again, it is as a scanner buff to hear all the traffic, but when the stuff hits the fan those open slots on the tower sure are missed.

Nelson

Honestly, KHP doens't dedicate that many extra guys to the race weekends, as traffic is usually handled pretty well by KCKPD and on-site security (at least around and close to the track), so at most, they may bring in an extra four or five troopers for traffic. KCKPD does most of the LEO patrols (although KHP will do extra K9 and bomb detection when security is heightened for specific events).

I kept an ear on the Mission, Olathe, Lawrence, and Leavenworth KSICS towers, and the Johnson County portion of the MARRS system (since KHP for Wyandotte and Johnson counties is done off that system), and most were pretty normal in terms of traffic levels.

 

[rankin39]

I kept an ear on the Mission, Olathe, Lawrence, and Leavenworth KSICS towers, and the Johnson County portion of the MARRS system (since KHP for Wyandotte and Johnson counties is done off that system), and most were pretty normal in terms of traffic levels.

For some strange reason I heard absolutely zero KHP comms on the Leavenworth simulcast system last weekend. It brought the LV county units in 5-by-5 the whole time. I live about a mile and a half from the Tonganoxie KSICS tower. There must be some sort of software glitch in my system, as I hear KHP just fine on the Uniden in my car.

Bob, WoNXN

 

[dgruver911]

For some strange reason I heard absolutely zero KHP comms on the Leavenworth simulcast system last weekend. It brought the LV county units in 5-by-5 the whole time. I live about a mile and a half from the Tonganoxie KSICS tower. There must be some sort of software glitch in my system, as I hear KHP just fine on the Uniden in my car.

Bob, WoNXN

There was a notification that went out a few weeks ago that KDOT was preparing to do a software upgrade to all towers over the next few weeks. When the upgrade was being done, towers affected would go into site trunking mode, which means they act as stand-alone trunk systems and can't talk to other towers. So anyone on the system would hit their closest tower, but couldn't talk to anyone who was affiliated with another tower on the same talkgroup.

That may have been what was happening.