Since last last year, MARCS has been updating their licenses to reflect the new frequencies for various sites that will be active post-rebanding.
A document I just read online from June 10, 2013 indicated that 99% of the subscriber radios had the "one-touch rebanding" complete.
An FCC document I read today mentioned "The Sprint FRA has only recently been completed and rebanding is scheduled to begin in mid-August, 2013. "
And today I got a call from a friend who heard a Helpdesk discussion where a tech was testing new freqs on the Cherry Grove site and then subsequently deemed that rebanding had been completed on that site.
So, for all of you who monitor MARCS, over the coming months if you start noticing that you aren't hearing anything from particular sites, you should determine if the site has been rebanded / control channel has changed.
The MARCS DB doesn't currently list the post-rebanding frequencies for any of the sites [there may be an exception here and there]. So you'll have to click on each individual site in the DB, look at the FCC licenses, and grab the additional frequencies from there and program them in -- should be in a situation where you aren't hearing traffic on a site anymore and are wondering what's going on.
Mike
A document I just read online from June 10, 2013 indicated that 99% of the subscriber radios had the "one-touch rebanding" complete.
An FCC document I read today mentioned "The Sprint FRA has only recently been completed and rebanding is scheduled to begin in mid-August, 2013. "
And today I got a call from a friend who heard a Helpdesk discussion where a tech was testing new freqs on the Cherry Grove site and then subsequently deemed that rebanding had been completed on that site.
So, for all of you who monitor MARCS, over the coming months if you start noticing that you aren't hearing anything from particular sites, you should determine if the site has been rebanded / control channel has changed.
The MARCS DB doesn't currently list the post-rebanding frequencies for any of the sites [there may be an exception here and there]. So you'll have to click on each individual site in the DB, look at the FCC licenses, and grab the additional frequencies from there and program them in -- should be in a situation where you aren't hearing traffic on a site anymore and are wondering what's going on.
Mike