Towns and Counties still on OLD radio modes or trunking.

[2wayfreq]

Just Curious,
With many locations going "P25" "Digital Phase 2" and/or the dreaded "E", do you live in a town, city, county area that still has good ole analog or analog trunking goodness for public safety? As in, you could literally blow the dust off of a 30 Year old Bearcat and hear most everything?? Where? Post your backwater analog paradise!

 

[cubn]

Oddly, I was just wondering if any major cities still use Mot II Smartnet Analog.

 

[DeoVindice]

State police, EMS, tribal police, and wildland fire are analog here. My county switched from analog to clear conventional P25 for law dispatch a few months ago. My hearing is a bit messed up from occupational noise exposure and I generally find P25 easier to understand.

 

[jrothwell]

Massachusetts State Police are still using Motorola Type II SmartZone with analogue voice. Most of the state's individual departments are still conventional analogue, some even with new builds and upgrades, have still stayed analogue. There are several that have recently started transitioning to P25 though and the state's SmartZone system will soon be replaced, but probably not for a couple years.

 

[dachs494]

Our county (Snohomish County, WA), which is just a few miles north of Seattle, switched from an 800MHz Motorola Type II Smartzone system (95% analog/5% digital) to a P25P2 system w/ LE fully encrypted just last month. It was a sad sight to witness.

 

[62Truck]

Right now in my county you can find LE on VHF and UHF analog, and 800 EDACS with some ProVoice Talkgroups some are clear some are encrypted. Fire is UHF analog.

The County is in the process of building out a P25 Phase II system (might be online at some point in 2027), originally everyone was supposed to go on it LE, Fire/EMS and County DPW. They changed course and will not move fire/EMS onto the new system when it goes live, but will "enhance" the currently UHF analog system...

 

[jrothwell]

Right now in my county you can find LE on VHF and UHF analog, and 800 EDACS with some ProVoice Talkgroups some are clear some are encrypted. Fire is UHF analog.

The County is in the process of building out a P25 Phase II system (might be online at some point in 2027), originally everyone was supposed to go on it LE, Fire/EMS and County DPW. They changed course and will not move fire/EMS onto the new system when it goes live, but will "enhance" the currently UHF analog system...

I really miss EDACS

 

[unitdelta]

(Paducah/McCracken County Kentucky) Our local city and county are still on an 800mhz Smartnet trucked system, however, a few months ago, the city and county accepted a 5 site simulcast 800 mhz P25 Phase 2 system by Harris. Deal and engineering done by Communications International. Hopefully will be completed by year end.

 

[StoliRaz]

Massachusetts State Police are still using Motorola Type II SmartZone with analogue voice. Most of the state's individual departments are still conventional analogue, some even with new builds and upgrades, have still stayed analogue. There are several that have recently started transitioning to P25 though and the state's SmartZone system will soon be replaced, but probably not for a couple years.

I listen to the MSP analog system just about every day, especially while commuting to work. I'm seeing more and more digital rear its nasty, disgusting, ugly head (I hate digital-can you tell?) in our area, but thankfully not much is encrypted...at least so far.

That new MSP (CoMIRS) system is very slowly rolling out. I think Cape Cod and Plymouth county were scheduled to go online at some point this year but it seems like the whole project is running behind schedule. Red tape and projects running behind schedule are the norm in this state.

 

[steve9570]

I listen to the MSP analog system just about every day, especially while commuting to work. I'm seeing more and more digital rear its nasty, disgusting, ugly head (I hate digital-can you tell?) in our area, but thankfully not much is encrypted...at least so far.

That new MSP (CoMIRS) system is very slowly rolling out. I think Cape Cod and Plymouth county were scheduled to go online at some point this year but it seems like the whole project is running behind schedule. Red tape and projects running behind schedule are the norm in this state.

Me too as far as the MSP. And Boston etc is still analog I live in Natick and the went P25 a few months ago but I can get them. I work in Marlboro and they and Sudbury are also P25. Framingham is still clear except for the DPW and Water depts but I can get them on 3 of my scanners or G5. Boston is going soon I hear. I still like to listen after 30 years there as a Detective is cool to hear the difference in communications. Steve

 

[hill]

The Smartzone with Richmond, VA along with it's other Counties of Henrico and Chesterfield is still being used. System voice is P25, but it's still an old system running a 3600 baud control channel

I am a partime listener of this system when delivering down that way and I don't know the timeline for new system being used.

Maybe one day when they finally get with modern times at then could monitor these areas with the G5