Harrisonburg-Rockingham County going P-25 [1 of 2]

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BigLebowski

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Anyone care to run pro96com on the system and post all the pertinent information for us? It would be much appreciated on my end.
 

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I'll be a few days, but I'll see what I can do.
 

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Database Update?

HRECC switched to P25 at 10:00 this morning. I am unfamiliar with the process by which the radioreference database that is downloadable to Uniden scanners gets updated. Is there a timeframe for when this database might receive an update (assuming the channels are not encrypted if this impacts the ability to utilize Uniden scanners)?
 

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As soon as someone updates the RR information and is approved by an admin it’ll be available for programs such as ProScan to manually retrieve. I think programs like the HP2 use, etc is on a schedule.
 

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HRECC switched to P25 at 10:00 this morning. I am unfamiliar with the process by which the radioreference database that is downloadable to Uniden scanners gets updated. Is there a timeframe for when this database might receive an update (assuming the channels are not encrypted if this impacts the ability to utilize Uniden scanners)?

Sorry, I missed your post before mine. Uniden usually downloads from the RR database Monday mornings and then updates Sentinel. Hopefully there will be a new entry next week's database. I won't be home until this evening and I will see what I can do then.

By the way, welcome to RadioReference! It's nice to see someone else in Rockingham.
 
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Harrisonburg-Rockingham P25 Switched Over!

It would seam that the transition to the new P25 system was seamless! I was over there earlier to day with the BCD436HP and the 536HP and picked the new system up just fine! The TRX-1 is receiving a signal but no audio passing through.



Picked up the following Talkgroups:


4239
8258-'Tac 1' mentioned
8257- Fire Department Dispatch
12353-PD Ch. 1?
12417-PD: HPD?
4165: Radio Technicians testing. Lots of testing transmissions
65189-Not sure
16449-Not Sure


Now to figure out how to get TRx-1 setup for P25 system and Pro96com. That's for another forum.
 

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BlueMoon2, thanks! I don't think I mentioned it, but in testing it appeared the TGID's may carry over from the old system. I was not sure if they would change once it went live and I only saw a few... but enough to indicate that may happen.

Do you know what the control channel was? I am having problems finding one. I have found 852.600 and 853.475, but have not been able to decode any data and have not received any transmission since the switch. I'm using a 436 as well. Thanks!
 

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Sorry, didn’t catch a control channel. I was just happy it was working! Loud and clear and no need to even do a volume offset change or anything! Thanks to the individual who posted the new licenses. That was very helpful in programming!


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I’m receiving now. I loaded each channel from Post #1 as BlueMoon2 suggested, into the system I had created. It took a while for the scanner to start decoding and display DAT, but it hasn’t let go of the CC and appears not to be missing anything. I think the old system may still be transmitting data on its CC and causing a delay for the scanner to get the correct CC.

All talk group ID’s I have seen have so far have carried over from the old system.
 

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I may have figured out my receive problem with the trx-1, I had a frequency locked out by accident in the p25 system. Oops! Also, I got the pro96com software working with the trx-1! Decoding the stars system properly!


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Good deal. Are you in Charlottesville? Wow! I tried Pro96com last night, but I think I had a usb cable that I’ve had problems with before.
 

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From what I had heard, the talk groups should stay the same. Thats several month old info so it may not be accurate. I hope to do some scanning of the system this evening after work and see if we cant get the database updated pretty quickly.
 

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Given that frequency 854.4625 had somehow been locked out and I wasn’t receiving talkgroups regularly in scan for the new system, I’m willing to bet that that is likely to be a control channel, but not sure.


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Is there a bandplan for this system? I can’t pick it up with my 436hp
 

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No I don’t believe so. Nothing special for my 436hp. Valley simulcast, feedstone and mountain sites and I’d search on in a p25 x2 System


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Is there a bandplan for this system? I can’t pick it up with my 436hp

I entered the frequencies from the first post into my 436 and it works. But it seemed to scan a few minutes before it showed "DAT" at the bottom of the screen and began decoding. I had given up on what I had entered, but then it took off.

I haven't been able to listen except for a little while since the switch over. I am thinking, but not sure, that the old system may still have a CC active. That may be confusing the scanners if it is entered into the system frequencies for P25. Maybe the scanner is setting on the wrong EDACS CC for a few minutes and then moves on and finds the P25. Just a thought... don't know if that's possible.

I wasn't able to use Pro96com last night and couldn't figure out how to find what CC the scanner was looking at.
 
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