LCRA Wilson County
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Ok, checking my BCFY Calls Node, I've seen the following:
16537 A Wilson County Fire/EMS Paging Channel. Paged out a brush fire to 4208 CR 401 and Engine 51 responded. Also a set of paging test tones for "District One" - there was also a patch to a VHF channel up at one point on this talkgroup with the 99xxxxx uid.
16551 referred to as Wilson County EMS-1
16537 A Wilson County Fire/EMS Paging Channel. Paged out a brush fire to 4208 CR 401 and Engine 51 responded. Also a set of paging test tones for "District One" - there was also a patch to a VHF channel up at one point on this talkgroup with the 99xxxxx uid.
16551 referred to as Wilson County EMS-1
16537 has been silent since they went live on Monday. 16538 WC Alarm has taken its place.
16502 was just referred to as SO West which doesn’t make geographic sense to me (so I’m going to call it south). Therefore 16501 must be SO East.
16547 was referred to as Fire 1 last week during a structure fire. And correct, 16551 was referred to as EMS 1 yesterday.
Sounds like the copied Guadalupe County SO. Their dispatch channels are broken down into West and East. Also, the LVPD channel was probably an officer testing out his new radio and was on a channel probably a tac or open channel that was labeled for the agency.
Looking like a Tac channel.
I was wondering if any of the dreaded E would show up. LCRA seems to follow a somewhat standard protocol in recent years with new subscribers joining, especially for a county that dispatches most agencies in a county(from an LCRA radio guy). A primary LE channel or two. A secondary, talk/tac channels for individual agencies, 1-3 or 1-5 ops channels, FD and EMS primary, Fireground channels, and a couple of encrypted channels for each agency to use at their discretion unless they request encryption on primary channels.
If it’s a private channel for non emergency comms no real biggie, but tactical/fireground/command is retarded. They always point to HIPAA regardless of the truth.
I agree 100%.
Doesn’t bode well for interops because I don’t see this KeyID on any other group. Like rattler said, could just be a private channel which is not a big deal.
I love the fact that Wilson County is moving to the LCRA system, and I actually hope that Comal County does the same instead of trying to deploy their own VHF trunked system like they said they had planned to do.
But, I'm just going to go ahead come right out and say that an ESD in a small rural county running encryption is ridiculous and complete waste of tax dollars on subscriber hardware. And I wouldn't be surprised if the LCRA charges a greater monthly feed for encryption, but that's speculation on my part.
Who's the chief of Wilson County ESD1? Someone should be legit asking some questions to this person.
it's not like these guys don't have cell phones and if the ESD chief needs to talk to one of his volunteer guys about something private he can pick up the phone and call the dude. It's almost 99% going to be drama related anyway. VFDs and ESDs are full of that stuff.
But, I'm just going to go ahead come right out and say that an ESD in a small rural county running encryption is ridiculous and complete waste of tax dollars on subscriber hardware. And I wouldn't be surprised if the LCRA charges a greater monthly feed for encryption, but that's speculation on my part.
Who's the chief of Wilson County ESD1? Someone should be legit asking some questions to this person.
it's not like these guys don't have cell phones and if the ESD chief needs to talk to one of his volunteer guys about something private he can pick up the phone and call the dude. It's almost 99% going to be drama related anyway. VFDs and ESDs are full of that stuff.
I doubt it for Comal anyhow, since Kerr Co is going to GATRRS also. We are in that weird crossover zone where two major systems share territory north of 1604 and both are expansion minded. I think GATRRS properly deployed with VHF is the better play within the hill country, but both are great systems and LCRA is already invested heavily into TDMA whereas GATRRS hasn’t even begun.
Rattler, isn’t Comal about a million over budget and 2 years past deadline? I haven’t paid attention to them.
I haven’t either, I’d have to go down the commissioner’s court rabbit hole like I did with Kerr sometime and see. There are folks here that are more in the know on Comal that may chime in but better on that thread. Back to Wilson Co, I don’t know much about how long this has been in the works but it seems to be moving along rather well. Speaks well for LCRA as their rollouts here and in Guadalupe and Gonzales have gone quickly with the infrastructure and implementation over the last few years.
The coverage is stunning. Drove around a lot today and it’s unreal. Best thing that could have ever happened.
I went to see some family between Floresville and Poth on Sunday. Drove around for a while also and had zero issues with the signal. I was using my Unication gG5 with a stubby antenna, and it site roamed without zero issues. I am sure the officers and deputies like the peace of mind they can run their handhelds almost anywhere in the county and outside without reception issues.
The rollout and coverage seems flawless. They’ve done an outstanding job.
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