KB1UAM
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yes 452.4500 DPL: 243 is live and on the air it is a repeater single site, citywide interoperable channel
New Bedford Police going digital
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New bedford Police now digital
New bedford police is now digital on all channels
482.5875 NAC: 232
482.9125 NAC 233
New bedford police is now digital on all channels
482.5875 NAC: 232
482.9125 NAC 233
Hold onto your hats here, Folks, more information just heard. An incident is in progress as I type, and dispatcher just advised all units involved to switch back to "Analog 1", so I would not delete any programming for the old analog frequency/PL tone just yet!
KB1UAM
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as of 4pm they are back on analog 1, that is the start of the new shift from 1600-0000hrs. i guess today was the big test day
I made the changes in the database to reflect both P25 and analog use. We'll keep it that way until such time that we can confirm (or deny) they are using P25 full time.
It was a fun listen though....definitely some growing pains, but that's certainly to be expected. From a listener standpoint I thought the system sounded very good.
It was a fun listen though....definitely some growing pains, but that's certainly to be expected. From a listener standpoint I thought the system sounded very good.
KB1UAM
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me as well i thought the system worked very well, but i noticed a few glitches, medics from stat and other contractors were transmitting on analog but dispatch was on digital and dispatch couldn't hear most of the north end units, especially the far north end. the contractor medics couldn't hear dispatch answering so they kept repeating themselves and dispatch was getting annoyed, i could hear it in the dispatchers voice, lol. it was very interesting indeed!!!
KB1UAM
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New Bedford PD transitioning to digital Aug.1st
The New Bedford Police department will be transitioning from analog to digital, tentatively scheduled for August 1st, 2012. i heard this from a very reliable source. the repair garage had to replace a few older radios in some of the cruisers and also some of the special unit cars. the radio techs also had to tweak some of the programming which they fixed. so they should be good to go this time around.
here is the new channel plan:
digital ch.1 482.5875 NAC:232 (dispatch)
digital ch.2 482.9125 NAC:233 (records)
ch.3 482.3875 PL:203.5 (simplex) car-car (analog)
ch.4 463.7125 DPL: 243 (analog) New Bedford EMS
ch.5 452.4500 DPL:243 (analog) CITYWIDE INTEROP
ch.6 analog ch.1 482.5875 PL:203.5 (dispatch) analog back-up
ch.7 analog ch.2 482.9125 PL:203.5 (records) analog back-up
the police department also has access to the fire department channels
The New Bedford Police department will be transitioning from analog to digital, tentatively scheduled for August 1st, 2012. i heard this from a very reliable source. the repair garage had to replace a few older radios in some of the cruisers and also some of the special unit cars. the radio techs also had to tweak some of the programming which they fixed. so they should be good to go this time around.
here is the new channel plan:
digital ch.1 482.5875 NAC:232 (dispatch)
digital ch.2 482.9125 NAC:233 (records)
ch.3 482.3875 PL:203.5 (simplex) car-car (analog)
ch.4 463.7125 DPL: 243 (analog) New Bedford EMS
ch.5 452.4500 DPL:243 (analog) CITYWIDE INTEROP
ch.6 analog ch.1 482.5875 PL:203.5 (dispatch) analog back-up
ch.7 analog ch.2 482.9125 PL:203.5 (records) analog back-up
the police department also has access to the fire department channels
Merged a few threads into one. Lets try to keep everything in one thread instead of creating new ones every time there is new info. Thanks.
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Its official the new bedford pd will be switching to digital on august 1st
KB1UAM
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New bedford police was running digital again this morning for appx 2 hours. Wondering if this was another test?
KB1UAM
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New bedford pd will be switching to digital as of 8am on wednesday aug. 1st.
KB1UAM
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New bedford pd is now fulltime digital.
sparky57
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I apologize up front to my naivete to all things digital, does this mean we can or cannot monitor NBPD with a digital scanner? How about NBFD? I have been monitoring those 2 agencies for the past 30 years with my analog radios/scanners.
KB1UAM
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Yes if you have a digital capable scanner you may still pick up NBPD. There are no changes to new bedfkrd fire, they still operate in analog. However they do have a new digital frequency on 471.1500 with a NAC of 868. Check the database for new bedford.
WA1ATA
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Unfortunately, the RR feed for NB PD, Fire, EMS at New Bedford Police, Fire, and EMS Live Scanner Audio Feed obviously has an analog only receiver and all of the NBPD transmissions are coming through as the digital hash of an unprocessed P25 digital signal.
KB1UAM -- you seem seem to have good inside knowledge of the NB radio freqs. A couple weeks ago, when there were two incidents active on the fire department channels, they were telling some people to move some misc, unrelated traffic to "channel 16". They definitely didn't show up on VHF marine 16, and I didn't hear them on any other freq in the database.
Do you have any idea what "channel 16" is on the FD handhelds? Perhaps low power simplex fireground?
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KB1UAM -- you seem seem to have good inside knowledge of the NB radio freqs. A couple weeks ago, when there were two incidents active on the fire department channels, they were telling some people to move some misc, unrelated traffic to "channel 16". They definitely didn't show up on VHF marine 16, and I didn't hear them on any other freq in the database.
Do you have any idea what "channel 16" is on the FD handhelds? Perhaps low power simplex fireground?
TIA
Charlie
KB1UAM
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Channel 16 is channel 1 simplex, channel 16 can also be called the mobile repeaters.
WA1ATA
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NB Standard Times newspaper article notes the switch to digital caught their newsroom by surprise and their scanner can't monitor NBPD.
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120808/NEWS/208080340/-1/rss01
Police scanner owners mourn switch to digital | SouthCoastToday.com
edit;: the Standard Times article will be behind a paywall once you read 3 articles in a month.
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120808/NEWS/208080340/-1/rss01
Police scanner owners mourn switch to digital | SouthCoastToday.com
edit;: the Standard Times article will be behind a paywall once you read 3 articles in a month.
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WA1ATA
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While chatting last weekend with a NB policeman I made an open ended comment of "I hear you have a new radio system".
He gives the system rave reviews .... "Sounded like the dispatcher was sitting in my back seat." "I don't have to turn the volume way up to be able to understand dispatcher".
He did say that there were a few dead spots, but also said that they seemed to be fewer than with the analog system. He specifically mentioned that his reception inside the police building (HQ? branch substation?) was better than with the old system.
It looks like they are going to stay running digital. Oh well. I needed an excuse to buy a new scanner.
He gives the system rave reviews .... "Sounded like the dispatcher was sitting in my back seat." "I don't have to turn the volume way up to be able to understand dispatcher".
He did say that there were a few dead spots, but also said that they seemed to be fewer than with the analog system. He specifically mentioned that his reception inside the police building (HQ? branch substation?) was better than with the old system.
It looks like they are going to stay running digital. Oh well. I needed an excuse to buy a new scanner.
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