TDCJ Switch To DMR

[Enforcer52]

Last Week the TDCJ Polunsky Unit in Livingston. TX, switched their conventional channels 1 and 3 to DMR. Here are the specs:

Polunsky 1
Freq - 153.785
CC - 2
TG - 702
Slot - 1

Polunsky 3
Freq - 154.430
CC - 2
TG 703
Slot 1

 

[Enforcer52]

Guess they are still tweaking on the system, they have changed Polunsky 1 to CC-5

 

[rattlerbb01]

Guess they are still tweaking on the system, they have changed Polunsky 1 to CC-5

Good stuff, when they settle on something drop the submission and we can update it.

 

[BrokenCircuit]

I'm scanning the Bonham units and Telford (Bowie County) neither have changed over yet but their licenses have been amended. I'm curios though, I see the P25 emission in the license yet they are going DMR, are they keeping P25 as a backbone option?

 

[Echo4Thirty]

Often times agencies just add the emmission designators to their licneses when doing a modfication. We have fire depts that have analog, P25, NXDN and DMR all allowed on their licenses.

 

[Enforcer52]

Following frequencies upgraded/changed to DMR

TDCJ Wainwright 1 154.235000 TG 702 CC3 Slot1


TDCJ Ferguson 1 153.815000 TG 701 CC1 Slot1


TDCJ Estelle 3 155.137500 TG 703 CC1 Slot1

Changes submitted to database.

 

[kmartin]

I've been wondering when the TDCJ was going to move to P25 or DMR i guess DMR it is ! But I feel encryption is not to far away ?

 

[KevinC]

I merged both TDCJ threads so we don't have ones for each facilities switch.

With that being said I'm getting DMR on 155.5725 (Ramsey), but it's too weak to decode. I do get a CC of 1 though.

 

[BrokenCircuit]

I've been wondering when the TDCJ was going to move to P25 or DMR i guess DMR it is ! But I feel encryption is not to far away ?

Yes, probably and on DMR its so much easier than having to write and upload encryption without a key writer. Not to mention a whole lot cheaper. Wouldn't surprise me to hear of Baofeng DMR radios used by some ... So, what are they going to encrypt anyways? Count time? Count Clear? Send your chow? TDCJ does more on their internal telephone network than they do on the radio ...

 

[EAFrizzle]

Lots of good fights weekly at the Hightower complex when I lived in Houston. Always a good late night channel to scan.

Add that to a great deal of ineptitude heard on-air after hiring waves, and I can see why they'd like encryption.

 

[BrokenCircuit]

153.785000 Slot 1/Color 1 TGID 702 RID: 226632, 266129, 226586 I THINK it's Choice Moore Unit, I'm on a short distance antenna right now so I need to listen some more before I go giving it a Facility name.

 

[Enforcer52]

153.785 is used at several units, and is a designated statewide facility channel. Choice Moore listed freq is 151.955, but most units have at least 2 channels. So more listening is probably needed if other units are in your area of reception.

 

[BrokenCircuit]

Been listening to it all morning, RSSI is in the 300's so its quite possibly Bonham. The 151.955 frequency was a temporary building channel. Choice Moore and Buster Cole share a repeater. Everything I am hearing indicates its these two units.

The Beto/Michael/Cofield units are too far for me to effectively hear and Telford is using a non-standard pair, additionally Telford never comes in well due to its location as well. I'm a 20 minute drive to the front gates at Moore/Cole units.

 

[Echo4Thirty]

I've been wondering when the TDCJ was going to move to P25 or DMR i guess DMR it is ! But I feel encryption is not to far away ?

In the huntsville area they have been carrying XPR3500s forever so that made a natural switch. Other parts of the state were still on PR400s (yuk).