Warren County/Warren Rural Electric

[davidp124]

Listening to the Warren Rural Electric frequencies here in Bowling Green, specifically 452.325 and it sounds like a digital data stream, similar to a MotoTrbo system. Anyone have any knowledge if WRECC is going to a new unmonitorable radio system like NXDN or MotoTrbo?

David

 

[davidp124]

WRECC on MotoTrbo

Looks as though the Warren Rural Electric Co-op here in Warren County has gone MotoTrbo. Two noted control channels are 452.325 and 452.800. The FCC web site has several new frequencies for the Co-op. The emission code is 7K60FXE, which according to other posters on RR, is an indicator of a Trbo system.

David

 

[davidp124]

A reliable source at Moto has confirmed to me that Warren Rural Electric has gone Trbo.

David

 

[mastr]

It sounds a lot better than the analog system did.

 

[CORN]

You would think the scanner manufacturers could come up with some software or firmware or make a scanner that could decode MotoTrbo since technically it's not a form of encryption just a new digital format.

 

[davidp124]

Yeah, guess we'll be getting new scanners online with new digital formats at some point. I wonder how aggressively Uniden and GRE are pursuing MotoTrbo and NEXEDGE ?

David

 

[mastr]

I venture a guess that it may be a while before either are licensed to Uniden or GRE. Motorola has been selling bunches of radios by implication that they will not be licensing others to use MotoTrbo. Having a consumer grade MotoTrbo scanner on the market would immediately kill a great sales tool and undoubtedly irritate a large portion of existing customers, much like the P25 scanner did.

 

[w4wsm]

Mototrbo is using a world wide open standard normally called DMR. Other manufacturers are using it and it shouldn't be that hard for a scanner builder to include this form of modulation. HYT, a Chinese radio company already has radios out that will talk to the Motorola radios.