Tampa BCI Cap+ System Off The Air?

[CanesFan95]

It looks like this system that Transcare ambulance dispatch uses is suddenly inactive:

BCI Communications (Tampa Capacity Plus)

Is it down permanently, or is it down for maintenance? If it's permanent, then where is Transcare now? Or will Transcare go the way of AMR and mysteriously no longer have radios that we can find anywhere.

 

[CanesFan95]

Figured it out. There's a new frequency 451.4250 that is suddenly active and is the 15/16 LCN. So this frequency needs to be added or else the other 3 will seem dead. This 451.4250 has never been active until now. I wonder if they had to re-program all the field radios, or if this frequency was already in the radios all this time and now they just turned on the repeater.

 

[GTR8000]

Figured it out. There's a new frequency 451.4250 that is suddenly active and is the 15/16 LCN. So this frequency needs to be added or else the other 3 will seem dead.

https://www.radioreference.com/apps/submit/?sid=8562

 

[CanesFan95]

Yeap, gonna submit the update, but wanna wait a while and keep monitoring in case any other new stuff is also active. The rest channel changes so infrequently on this system because it's so dead. It's a wonder how the radio company makes any money at all.

 

[Bolt21]

There's a new frequency 451.4250 that is suddenly active and is the 15/16 LCN.

I think you mean that 15/16 is the LSN (slot). Guessing the LCN is 7? Also, what color code for the new freq?

 

[CanesFan95]

The color code is 15.

And I'm not sure what "LSN" is, but DSD+ shows this as the Ch. 15/16 frequency. So I guess that's called LCN 8? So far, I'm not finding anymore new frequencies. No problems listening to Transcare again, though.

 

[CanesFan95]

Now I'm wondering if they've got the right LCNs / LSNs in the database:

For example, 451.975 is what DSD+ calls the Ch. 3/4 frequency. But the database has it as LCN 3 and LSNs 5/6. Is that wrong? I suspect 451.975 should be LCN 2 and LSNs 3 & 4. Right or wrong?

 

[CanesFan95]

As it turns out, there were corrections also needed with the LCNs / LSNs, plus the new frequency, per this thread. I've gone ahead and submitted an update.