Parker county

[jasday]

On the Parker County P25 system, Parker County (Project 25) Trunking System, Parker County, Texas - Scanner Frequencies, there is now a interop site with 700mhz channels. I know that the system is a part of TXWARN and there are multiple talk groups for Parker County in the interop section, Texas Wide Area Radio Network (TxWARN) Project 25 Trunking System, Various, Texas - Scanner Frequencies. It says that they have not been connected, has this changed?

1. Does anyone know if this site is still active, i know it was active during the wildfires at Possum Kingdom
2. How much traffic is on the interop channels, i know that these have been in the interop section even before the Possum Kingdom fires. Is there any point right now to even program these in?

Thanks,
Jason

 

[nd5y]

The 700 MHz site at PK is still on the air. It isn't temoprary. I belongs to the BRA. I ran Unitrunker on it for several hours over a few days and never logged any talkgroups. I don't know if anybody is using it.

I can't scan it because I my 396T is too deaf to receive it at all and I can't tie up my PRO-2006 running Unitrunker all the time. Somebody closer to PK needs to scan it for a while and see what they hear. As far as I know BRA is still on their VHF channel.

 

[jasday]

So would the Parker County TGs on the TXWARN system just be place holders? There are probably 10 of them, Parker-Odessa, Parker-Houston etc etc.

 

[nd5y]

I don't know exactly how it works but Parker County has a ISSI switch that can connect to TXWARN and probably the NCTCOG overlay system. From what I was told they will have to change their site IDs to be compatible with TXWARN. I don't know anything about those talkgroups listed on the TXWARN database page. They may be regional interoperability talkgroups or something. I have never heard any non-local stuff on the Parker County VHF system. Apparently other people have heard them testing the ISSI and that is why the talkgroups are listed.