Clinton County switching to MARCS?

r_eugene1 · Jun 24, 2011

I know that Clinton County has just recently re banded their 800mhz system (EDACS Standard) earlier this month. But during a recent "Disaster Drill" the head of the EMA in Clinton County said that the drill was a success with the exception of the communications system.

He stated that the county needs to up date their system to the P25 system, due to the fact that there wasn't enough channels for all of the responders to communicate. And also that the radio system was 10-15 years old and were in dire need of being replaced.

Does anyone have any information on this.

16b · Jun 26, 2011

I don't know anything about Clinton County, but:

1) P25 doesn't have anything to do with the number of channels in the system, and
2) 10-15 years is not old, especially for a trunking system that many hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent on.

r_eugene1 · Jun 26, 2011

That was (is) my thought on it exactly. All that would have to be done is to add more talk groups.

r_eugene1 · Dec 30, 2011

New Communications system for Clinton County?

An interesting article appeared in our local paper that I thought I'd pass along. It seems like Clinton County may be going forward with a new communications system for Clinton County.
Earlier this year Clinton County held an emergency drill and commissioner Randy Riley stated that the current system is in dire need of repair and or update. Stating that communications during the event were sparse between the EMS/Fire and law enforcement officials.
The mention of erecting new/more towers makes me think that they may be looking at going to the MARCS P25 system. They are currently operating on the EDACS Standard system.
Just thought I'd pass along the info.

County hiring consultant to survey emergency communications

r_eugene1 · May 1, 2012

r_eugene1 said:
An interesting article appeared in our local paper that I thought I'd pass along. It seems like Clinton County may be going forward with a new communications system for Clinton County.
Earlier this year Clinton County held an emergency drill and commissioner Randy Riley stated that the current system is in dire need of repair and or update. Stating that communications during the event were sparse between the EMS/Fire and law enforcement officials.
The mention of erecting new/more towers makes me think that they may be looking at going to the MARCS P25 system. They are currently operating on the EDACS Standard system.
Just thought I'd pass along the info.

County hiring consultant to survey emergency communications

This is an update to my previous post "see above quote". Its seems like Clinton County has jumped on the MARCS. Not sure if or when any move will take place. If a switch to MARCS takes place I'll need to save up money for a digital scanner.

Should county upgrade its towers or partner with state?

wa8pyr · May 1, 2012

r_eugene1 said:
That was (is) my thought on it exactly. All that would have to be done is to add more talk groups.

Incorrect. One can't just add talkgroups on a 6-channel trunked system and expect the system to handle the load; they still have only five voice channels available, no matter how many talkgroups are added.

The same is true for MARCS, if they were to join that. Assuming they add their channels to the Wilmington MARCS site, they're still limited in how many talkgroups they can use based upon the number of users and the number of available voice channels (which would be nine).

r_eugene1 · Sep 28, 2012

It seems that Clinton County is possibly making steps closer to joining MARCS.

Emergency radio system partnership explored - Wilmington News Journal - Wilmington, Ohio - Wilmington, OH

r_eugene1 · May 1, 2013

Getting closer to joining Ohio MARCS?

Update on Clinton County switching to Ohio MARCS. The article below was published in the April 18th edition of our local paper.

Emergency officials request $5M for new communications system - Wilmington News Journal - Wilmington, Ohio - Wilmington, OH

r_eugene1 · Jun 6, 2013

Clinton County Ohio update on MARCS

Once again county commissioners discuss switching to Ohio MARCS. But just for LE, fire and EMS only!

County officials: New emergency communication system for emergency agencies only - Wilmington News Journal - Wilmington, Ohio - Wilmington, OH

W8RMH · Jun 6, 2013

Those non-emergency agencies CAN be on MARCS by purchasing their own radios. They will need new radios anyway, why pay for another system.

r_eugene1 · Jun 20, 2013

Commissioners face deadline on emergency communications system

I guess a decision will be made next Friday (6/28/13). We will have to wait and see.

Commissioners face deadline on emergency communications system - Wilmington News Journal - Wilmington, Ohio - Wilmington, OH

r_eugene1 · May 19, 2015

Clinton County Ohio switching to MARCS.

Not sure if it is Phase 1 or Phase 2. New towers, radios go on June 2 - News Journal - wnewsj.com

wa8pyr · May 19, 2015

r_eugene1 said:
Not sure if it is Phase 1 or Phase 2. New towers, radios go on June 2 - News Journal - wnewsj.com

Phase 1, just like the rest of the system.

GrimSleeper · May 20, 2015

9 Fire District Tones

I think the 1153* TGs for Fire District Tones are mistakenly listed in the Database under Clermont instead of Clinton County

radioscan · May 20, 2015

Thanks for pointing that out. I believe you are right. I've never heard Clemont using "Fire Districts". I'll make the correction.

TedRHayes · May 22, 2015

I've noticed on UniTrunker that the as of now un-labeled site 001-031, on 852.225, shows up as a peer to the Greene Co Simulcast site (001-012) on the Ohio MARCS-IP system. The 852.225 frequency is licensed to Clinton County.

I can get a very weak continuous signal from my location, but not enough to decode. Suspect it will start to be active soon, and we may soon be seeing some Clinton Co talkgroups showing up on the Greene Co Simulcast site.

dalan57 · Jun 11, 2015

clinton

today our county changed over to the marcs system, was wondering how soon we will be able to see the new freq.

sopranosno1 · Jun 11, 2015

I may be in clinton county friday. I will search out new talk groups. Hopefully someone closer will do it before i will.

W8RMH · Jun 11, 2015

dalan57 said:
today our county changed over to the marcs system, was wondering how soon we will be able to see the new freq.

852.22500 is the control channel listed in the database. I drove through the area a couple weeks ago and there was data on that channel.

r_eugene1 · Jun 12, 2015

W8RMH said:
852.22500 is the control channel listed in the database. I drove through the area a couple weeks ago and there was data on that channel.

I was wondering if the FCC issues new frequencies when an agency moves to a different system in the case from the EDACS system to the MARCS. The 852.22500 frequency is one that was used on the EDACS system. I was just curious as I have not got a digital scanner to monitor them as of yet.

Frequencies of the old EDACS system.

Clinton County OH Trunking System, Wilmington, Ohio - Scanner Frequencies

I also found these new frequencies that could be associated with MARCS.

ULS License - PubSafty/SpecEmer/PubSaftyNtlPlan,806-817/851-862MHz,Trunked License - WQVE898 - CLINTON, COUNTY OF - Frequencies Summary

Not sure if this info is correct or not just thought I'd pass it along.

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