Oakland "upgrade"?

[kittyranma]

There was a new article today that Oakland was "upgrading" to a new P25 system. Is this the new 700mhz Bay Area system? They were supposedly testing this past week.

Oakland Police See Much Needed Radio Upgrade « CBS San Francisco

 

[Radiobern]

Perhaps this is related, I recently noticed a P25 data channel on 853.8375. According to FCC records, it appears to be licensed to Oakland and is coming from their Seneca site. The control channel does not decode properly on my PSR-500 from both my home in San Leandro or work in Hayward. It sounds like multi-path issues at home and just a very weak signal at work. If someone closer to Oakland can monitor this control channel, let us know if this system is being tested.

 

[WayneH]

Oakland, City of (FUTURE) Trunking System, Oakland, California - Scanner Frequencies

 

[trooperdude]

Oakland Fire has been testing P25 from the Seneca site for at least two years on a couple of their licensed frequencies.

I think they are just waiting for Federal $$$ to complete the 700Mhz move.

 

[aktormedic]

It's still 800 mhz, but narrow banded and P25.

System should be up in June.

 

[trooperdude]

Finally moving away from EDACS then ?

 

[WayneH]

System should be up in June.

Up as in on the air or up as in people will start using it? It's been on the air for quite a while.

 

[vince48]

Up as in on the air or up as in people will start using it? It's been on the air for quite a while.

Any new news yet? It's June

 

[kma371]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone 3GS: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8G4 Safari/6533.18.5)

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=2401465

Looks like new rebanded freqs