Watauga, tx pd & fd
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According to the RR database, there are now Watauga talkgroups on the Fort Worth / Tarrant County system Fort Worth / Tarrant County Public Safety Trunking System, Fort Worth, Texas - Scanner Frequencies Perhaps they've moved over there recently.
I will have my computer that logs activity by frequency, duration, hits, signal strength monitor the old Watauga channels. If they moved, they probably won't tear out the old system and cancel the licenses. I've noticed a lot of system migration/upgrades recently where the city involved has not cancelled the old, unused license.
Yes this is an official move the old 400 system will only be utilized by public works. More talk groups should be coming soon for the new system as well.
truckr68
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Watauga Moved / Fort Worth moving to P25
I was looking around and found that Fort Worth is moving to P25 starting Q2 2011.
this is happening thanks to Homeland Security requirements of interoperability. Fort Worth
has purchased a Master P25 switch.
Read more here....
http://www.fortworthgov.org/uploadedFiles/Government/10050-1-15-12Regional.pdf
Looks like we are all going to be dishing out a lot of $$$ to upgrade.
I was looking around and found that Fort Worth is moving to P25 starting Q2 2011.
this is happening thanks to Homeland Security requirements of interoperability. Fort Worth
has purchased a Master P25 switch.
Read more here....
http://www.fortworthgov.org/uploadedFiles/Government/10050-1-15-12Regional.pdf
Looks like we are all going to be dishing out a lot of $$$ to upgrade.
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redhelmet13
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I wonder if Phase II P25 might be in the offing down the road since big M is now shipping Phase II P25 systems....
While there is an eventual move to P25 on the horizon, what's scheduled for Q2 of 2011 is installation of a P25 compliant master switch. That's something that will be required for interop with other systems (other than the Ft. Worth/Tarrant County system), and especially those that are P25 now (or that convert to P25).
The 'master switch' is only a small part of the system (though an important one). Take a look at pages 19 and 20 of the document you linked. They don't anticipate getting funding for the zones and phases of the construction and changeover secured until the end of September of this year. Building of the zones (the text of the document, which had been linked previously over on the DFWScan Yahoo group anticipates additional tower sites being needed) would not start until January of 2012.
(From the chart on page 20) Equipment installation at the sites, coverage testing, final acceptance, and subscriber migration (that would be actual changeover to P25 radios by the units actually using them, as well as dispatch consoles) all are scheduled for various times in 2014. "CFW" (City of Fort Worth) does not expect to complete changeover, at least according to the schedule, until March of 2015.
Of course, with all the various agencies (cities and counties) in a budget crunch, one has to wonder if that schedule will be met, or may slip a little.
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