Rockingham / Harrisonburg P25 System

[josephdurnal]

Are there really 3 sites on the same tower with the same range? Or is it just that there isn't enough information available so the site locations are just centered in the county?
Rockingham / Harrisonburg Trunking System, Harrisonburg, Virginia - Scanner Frequencies (radioreference.com)

Anyone know this system well enough to tell me what sites are used along I81?

J

 

[tvengr]

Looks like the Valley site. FCC Callsign WQEK472 (Harrisonburg-Rockingham ECC) (radioreference.com)

 

[maus92]

I drew this last year:

 

[tglendye]

As a rule of thumb the Valley Site is along I-81, as well as the majority of the city and county. The Mountain Site is along the western portion of the county. And Feedstone is located located in the far western portion of the county at the foot of the mountain, near Rawley Springs.

 

[tglendye]

I have never seen any official documentation, but wanted to add a little more explanation. I view (maybe not 100% correct) the H/R system as being a total of three systems that are linked together. They are Valley, Mountain and Feedstone.

Feedstone appears to be a stand alone, single site system. Very little activity here, but it provides coverage out the Rt. 33 West area beyond Rawley Springs. There are also some dead spots going up the mountain to WVa.

Mountain & Valley both have more than one site associated with them. On maus92's map above, I would say that Kaylor Hill, Stone Spring, Tower Street, Lacey Springs, Massanutten Peak, Elkton (I believe on Sapling Ridge Rd) and MAYBE Shank Hill are all part of the Valley Site. And I would call Cooper's Mountain, Little North Mountain and Bergton all part of the Mountain Site system.

The cool thing with the Uniden scanners, is you can make different scanlists for the Valley, Mountain and Feedstone site and toggle them on/off as needed. The cool thing with the Unication pagers is that it will scan for the next control channel if you go out of range of the current control channel.

 

[josephdurnal]

What I usually do on the SDS is have county favorites list for each county I'm passing through (except WV, I have the various SIRN sites on quick keys) and when feel like I'm getting close or see that county line sign and I'll turn on that scan list and turn off the one for the county I'm leaving. Since in most places, the counties are marked, this works pretty well.

 

[tglendye]

That’s a good way to do it. I do the same with the H/R system’s sites.