Philly 800mhz System Status

[soberbyker]

Originally Posted by lowermontcoff

How often are they testing on the new system, I scan the new system at night time and have not picked up anything. I was just wondering if the system is not loaded correctly on my psr800. I did do the P2 update. any help would be great.

I've only heard the testing daytime Monday thru Friday.

[lowermontcoff]

I'm picking up Far-NE now, glad its working!

[phillydjdan]

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I am also hearing it. Its after hours now, wonder if the patch will be up all night.

[phillydjdan]

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I am also hearing it. Its after hours now, wonder if the patch will be up all night.

[lowermontcoff]

I got about 10 transmission, and now i dont hear anything, bummer.

[fourthhorseman]

Been scanning site 1 and 2 for about an hour,

Getting hits,Site2 PD Far NE Disp..

Using the 800,and the custom tables.

[soberbyker]

I've been hearing calls for the NE, 7th & 8th districts. Also caught a few conversations that were encrypted on the following frequencies:

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[soberbyker]

I've been hearing test counts on both this and the current system.

[soberbyker]

Seems they added some more sections of the city this afternoon, hearing "north central" now but it's very choppy.

[lowermontcoff]

Picking up south fire.

[hosehead88]

SO after reading all of this, I am still a little confused. I drove through Philly the Friday before Thanksgiving with the RR file loaded into my 996XT and heard not a peep on the two Philly zones.

What changes, if any, can I make to my programming to pick up PFD/PPD when in the neighborhood?

Or is it not possible?

Thanks

[phillydjdan]

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Hosehead,

I guess we should have been more clear on our observations. The activity we have been seeing thus far has been intermittent. They enable certain talkgroups for a period of time, then disable them again. I presume this is so certain city personnel can test thier particular channels. I will assume that you didnt hear anything over thanksgiving because no talkgroups were enabled (likely because the techs were off enjoying turkey day). I have both zones running 24/7 on my psr800, and i at times dont see activity for days on end. Hope this helps!

[phillydjdan]

I noticed last night and this morning as I was sitting at my desk that there is/was pretty steady activity on South Fire, North Fire, and North Tac 1. Will have to pull up the recordings to see if there's anything more or when they started. Hopefully this means those talkgroups will be enabled full-time. Does anyone know when the cut-over date is supposed to be or what the progress is with replacing the radios?

[DASFlies]

Haven't heard too much more on cutover date, last I heard was sometime early next year (Jan/Feb?). I believe most if not all radios are simply being re-programmed, don't think there is too much in the way of new replacement radios at this stage.

[lowermontcoff]

Originally Posted by phillydjdan

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Hosehead,

I guess we should have been more clear on our observations. The activity we have been seeing thus far has been intermittent. They enable certain talkgroups for a period of time, then disable them again. I presume this is so certain city personnel can test thier particular channels. I will assume that you didnt hear anything over thanksgiving because no talkgroups were enabled (likely because the techs were off enjoying turkey day). I have both zones running 24/7 on my psr800, and i at times dont see activity for days on end. Hope this helps!

I thought North Tac 1 was encrypted?

[phillydjdan]

Yes, North Tac 1 is encrypted. I have my scanner setup to sound an audible alert that there is activity on encrypted channels. It sound like a busy signal on a phone. It stops on the channel, but I don't hear anything but the busy signal. Let's me know there is activity on that channel.

[phillydjdan]

I'm seeing more activity on the fire and medic bands this morning. I didn't have a chance to look at my recordings last night, but will do so tonight to look at dates/times/channels.

[Septa3371CSX1]

Picked up TGs 237 and 239 yesterday (North and South Fire). Also picked up TG 285 - not sure what it was but got Radio ID 56522 at one point. Picking up 243 this morning.

[hosehead88]

Originally Posted by phillydjdan

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Hosehead,

I guess we should have been more clear on our observations. The activity we have been seeing thus far has been intermittent. They enable certain talkgroups for a period of time, then disable them again. I presume this is so certain city personnel can test thier particular channels. I will assume that you didnt hear anything over thanksgiving because no talkgroups were enabled (likely because the techs were off enjoying turkey day). I have both zones running 24/7 on my psr800, and i at times dont see activity for days on end. Hope this helps!

Thanks! Guess I can free up some space on my 996xt by taking out Philly...oh well.

[fourthhorseman]

RID 565XX..not sure but that sounds like its probably a PD side radio..