I know, it only makes sense for them to go digital, better voice quality is the number one reason, sharp county for example is in my scanner feed and has some of the worst distortions and echos and static on my feed list, I'll be glad to change that over when they make that switch, will make my feed cleaner lol. A lot of the counties around me already use digital either with their own licenses or they have started using AWIN. I just hope they don't decide to encrypt to go with that digital. (I hear Motorola has been pushing encryption as a service.)
I'll program them in my SDS 200, Sharp county is very close by.
I can advise that it will not work as listed in the database because 155.445 is also one of the voice frequencies used by MOSWIN off the Doniphan tower site and will interfere if programmed in a scanner as listed, I get far too much traffic with it wide open just digital search, I'll have to program it in as just NXDN and continue to monitor, so far zero traffic on NXDN for Cave City, I'll continue to monitor for a few days before I give up on it, may be possible that they have not gone digital yet or that they use mainly analog, I'll do my best to figure them out.
Is this callsign WQSX459 ? the reason I ask is because on that license the Emissions designator 11K2F3E indicates analog only, I don't see an NXDN emission.
Sometime in the past, I saw that they had been licensed for NXDN, but now that emission designation is gone. OK, never mind.
Idk about Batesville police, I see that they use full time encryption so it wouldn't be a thing to even try and monitor them daily, although I could program them in my Trx-2 scanner and still verify if they are only using analog or if they use both analog and digital.
Any updates on this?
Yes they are in testing, I have heard traffic on their Frequency NXDN although I don't think they have decided on the RAN yet because my Trx-2 scanner has displayed several different RAN for their frequency. I monitor this every day and have yet to submit info to radioreference database for this because of the different RAN in use at this time. I would rather wait and see how this evolves before I make a submission on it. They may end up using a different RAN for say EMS, Sheriff, Local, etc, I know some of the other agencies in surrounding counties do this. I do know at current time they are manily still using Analog and they may continue to do so, we will see how it all plays out in time.
Yeah the sheriff and Promed have been on AWIN for some time now, they can be heard daily on TG 13001 this is almost as active as their main dispatch NXDN frequency 155.1975. I figure they will move most agencies over to AWIN by this summer, that seems like the direction they are going with this, all fire departments both rural and city will be transitioned over as well as EMS and maybe the city police, sounded like they were all but inviting the rural fire departments to go that way and any other agencies in the county as well if they chose to get on board, at least that is what sounded like to me from that news report.
An update to that story: Randolph County Sheriff and Pocahontas Police use AWIN as Primary Dispatch their TG's are listed in the database. You need a Phase 2 scanner to monitor the Pocahontas Police TG as it is P25 Phase 2 TDMA. They also use partial encryption so at times you may only catch part of the radio traffic for the Pocahontas Police TG.
Sharp fire also now using NXDN 155.925 15 RAN Countywide, for now this is low use but I'm sure it will change just like with the Sheriff.
