Bellville VFD going P25

[Ultanium]

Bellville VFD used another grant to partially pay for new radios, and will be jumping on the Borg ship, errr, South Texas P25 700/800 system. They still are having to shell out about $300 per radio that the grant didn't cover, and are having fundraisers to get the cash. Look for some new talkgroups soon, if they aren't already active.

 

[loumaag]

I travel to Bellville occasionally, the family doctor is there, and although I heard analog conventional recently I also heard them on the TxWARN P25 system. Although to be accurate maybe I was just hearing the EMS folks. Did they switch earlier? Not getting there but a few times a year puts a crimp in my listening to them "up close" but I do monitor Austin county on the P25 TxWARN system off the Clodine site a bit.

 

[motorola_otaku]

Aren't all of the other VFDs in Austin County still using VHF primary? I hope they don't plan on disposing of their old equipment any time soon.

 

[iamhere300]

I know this thread is old, but did Bellville FD go on TX warn? Or are they still using their analog repeaters? P25?

How are they paged?

 

[motorola_otaku]

As of 2013 they were still on VHF analog. 159.045 pl 107.2. You might have to run a scanner in search mode and look for a talkgroup linked to that frequency if they're not using one of the county VFD channels.