Columbus Police Dispatch Channels Down

NickWarzy · Jun 14, 2016

Today 6/14/16 in the mid afternoon for about two hours, it appears all main dispatch channels were offline/down. Channel 5 was using Emergency Channel 30 ("down a couple dials" per one communication I heard).

My best guess was that dispatch couldn't hear, but cruisers may have been able to communicate. Some walkie to walkie communication was picked up and lots of chat on 2D.

Does anyone know the emergency channels? I wasn't able to find them (when I was searching all frequencies).

Thanks.

W8RMH · Jun 14, 2016

There was some use of the new digital system on Zones 1 and 3. I came in toward the end of the outage just before things were restored. I would expect some issues like this while they are transitioning to the P25 system.

The analog system may have went into fail-safe mode where it works like a conventional system and you can only hear the dispatchers.

mmartinfan · Jun 15, 2016

The system showed out of range a couple times on our walkies and then sometimes gave us a rapid beep while keying up. But overall did not go into fail soft.

What was funny/scary was CPD loosing its collective Shiite when they asked the officers to go to EM Patrol. Nobody knew what zone it was. Some were on the old EM Patrol (county) and some were on the new XPatrol so some people could not be heard or hear others.

jscott02 · Jun 15, 2016

Heard it was something to do with the console brain down at Fairwood.

KD8DVR · Jun 16, 2016

NickWarzy said:
Today 6/14/16 in the mid afternoon for about two hours, it appears all main dispatch channels were offline/down. Channel 5 was using Emergency Channel 30 ("down a couple dials" per one communication I heard).

My best guess was that dispatch couldn't hear, but cruisers may have been able to communicate. Some walkie to walkie communication was picked up and lots of chat on 2D.

Does anyone know the emergency channels? I wasn't able to find them (when I was searching all frequencies).

Thanks.

They went to the Marcs-ip Columbus city system.

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spikster10 · Jun 16, 2016

just spoke with a columbus police officer. the email that went out concerning the marcs-ip info was it would start using the system starting july 1st on the events channels for the fireworks.then migrate from there.not sure why system went down today

W8RMH · Jun 16, 2016

spikster10 said:
just spoke with a columbus police officer. the email that went out concerning the marcs-ip info was it would start using the system starting july 1st on the events channels for the fireworks.then migrate from there.not sure why system went down today

They were using the P25 event channels for the Arts Festival last weekend, encrypted.

au1344 · Jun 17, 2016

There were a few TGs in the clear during the arts festival. I ran unitrunker as well and it showed a lot of radio to radio communication, (guessing private calls) but every talkgroup that was used I could hear

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baj76 · Jun 17, 2016

When they switch..I hope the disp TG are clear

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W8RMH · Jun 17, 2016

au1344 said:
There were a few TGs in the clear during the arts festival. I ran unitrunker as well and it showed a lot of radio to radio communication, (guessing private calls) but every talkgroup that was used I could hear

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I was there overnight each night and personally saw officers using their portables and I had my scanner on search and close call all night and received nothing.

au1344 · Jun 17, 2016

Yeah you are right most of it was quiet because the private calls can no longer be picked up on a scanner. Unitrunker was showing mostly RID to RID but the communication that was on a 57xxx TG was in the clear.

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Nasby · Jun 17, 2016

baj76 said:
When they switch..I hope the disp TG are clear

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I've heard that they will all be encrypted except for a few mutual aid T/G's.

cbehr91 · Jun 17, 2016

The only stuff from Hilliard I'm picking up is pretty garbled, which isn't much..

baj76 · Jun 17, 2016

Nasby said:
I've heard that they will all be encrypted except for a few mutual aid T/G's.

Well, I heard without a link or proof. Its not true...But you're probably right

Nasby · Jun 17, 2016

baj76 said:
Well, I heard without a link or proof. Its not true...But you're probably right

I just don't want to reveal my sources here on a public forum.

But I will say enjoy Columbus PD radio traffic while you can.

au1344 · Jun 17, 2016

I heard from some sources I trust that all but dispatch will be encrypted

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baj76 · Jun 17, 2016

sounds like CPD is having problems with there radios right now

RakkFO · Jun 17, 2016

baj76 said:
sounds like CPD is having problems with there radios right now

I am hearing everyone complaining about it.

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mmartinfan · Jun 17, 2016

Yep patrol moving over

baj76 · Jun 17, 2016

Nasby said:
I just don't want to reveal my sources here on a public forum.

But I will say enjoy Columbus PD radio traffic while you can.

just curious, what about Columbus fire?

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