Elkhart Tower...

[jel250]

Anyone know what the deal is? It's still broadcasting and a few TGIDs are still coming through (by my count, only 6 over the past 24 hours) but everything else is gone...

Secondly, does anyone know the correct backup channels for Elkhart City Police/Fire? I haven't had a single hit on the frequencies posted on RR...

 

[jel250]

DISREGARD! Not even 10 minutes after I post this, everything comes alive again... Thank god! lol

But if anyone knows those backup frequencies... I want to be ready for the next time this happens... ��

 

[INDY72]

All of these are what is licensed, and all are NFM.. May all have NEW tones that we do not know of as they are extremely rarely in use.
SO
155.6100 Repeater
155.6550 Repeater
154.7850 Base/Mobiles
155.3700 Base/Mobiles

County 911
151.2800 Repeater
151.4750 Repeater
453.1500 Repeater

EMA
154.1150 Base/Mobiles
155.0250 Base/Mobiles


EFD
151.3550 Repeater
153.7700 Base/Mobiles
154.2800 Base/Mobiles
154.4300 Base/Mobiles

EPD
453.5500 Repeater
155.5800 Base/Mobiles
155.6100 Base/Mobiles

Elkhart 800 Conventional
856.9875

County repeaters liced for NFM and DMR
159.1200
453.6625

County 800 Conventional
856.96250
854.96250

 

[sck]

Elkhart Bckups

854.0125 DCS 606 Police backup
854.7375 DCS 606 Fire Backup

 

[INDY72]

So they are leaseing from ERS-OCI? Only license for that in Elkhart County is the ERS-OCI TRS....https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?fccCallsign=WPTL200 https://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=2197 Speaking of... Has that system upgraded to DMR yet as the licenses have all been modded to do it?
If it is still an Motorola Analog TRS, then I would bet EPD, EFD are on it as backup. Something screams this, especially as there are other government users....

 

[sck]

I don't know the specifics, but that's where they are when SafeT is down, like this past weekend. I'm not technically up on DMR so have no idea about that.

 

[INDY72]

If your scanner is capable of doing trunking, and it receives the ERS-OCI 800 system fine, then its still Analog Type II/IIi. If all there is is digital buzz its DMR.. I suspect its still analog but will convert soon. I also suspect EFD and EPD have a talk group or 2 each on it. The use of those freqs and that DPL... And I am surprised they do not make use of the other 800 MHz conventional. Oh well.