(Remember scanner & ARC software only want's 4 decimal points ie:8312)
Some (few) scanners only want 4 digits after the decimal. The GRECOM PSR-500, for example, takes
six digits after the decimal, and many/most others take five digits after the decimal. The most important thing to remember is that the correct frequency has
five digits after the decimal; if you find your scanner will only accept four, then only enter four. However, if you enter 4 digits on a scanner that takes 5 or 6, you will be tuning off the correct frequency and will not get clear reception. Scanners that only display 4 digits past the decimal actually do tune to the correct 5-decimal-place frequency, they just don't show you the 5th decimal place. It's like an old-school PRO-51 which only shows 3 digits past the decimal point; you would see 413.837 on that scanner's display when you need to enter 413.8375 on any modern scanner's display.
License show's only 60 km?? radius.
The license you are looking at in TAFL is the early preliminary mobile-only license used to secure the 700 MHz band for VANOC. Search the TAFL for "Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic/Paralympic Games" or any distinctive part thereof ('Vancouver Organizing Committee' would work) and you will find that the license you're looking at, lic # 5071215, has been replaced with numerous different licenses that identify the proper frequencies per site (although some lat/long values seem to be wrong, putting the sites in the wrong location compared to what's been posted here). The ones with the '60km radius' also have a lat/long placing the radio location squarely in the center of the town of Squamish, which happens to be more-or-less 60km from both Whistler and Vancouver equally. So, as mentioned, that license is no longer relevant, having been replaced with the newer ones.
incidentally site ID's do not match what TAFL shows (don't think that number means much ??)
It's almost guaranteed that the site IDs that are prefaced with a "B" coincide with Bell Mobility cellular tower site IDs in the Lower Mainland. A number of the sites make reference to being co-located on Belmo towers. They probably have no useful reference in terms of the P25 system, but until more people like yourself spend time doing monitoring and sharing their information here (and again, thanks for that), that's all we have to go on.
I'm sure it's going to take me a couple of hours to wrap my brain around figuring out where the newly submitted data should go. Of course, I do trust what you've provided, but the government has screwed up the location of the licenses pretty substantially. For example, the one the TAFL identifies as "Richmond Oval" is actually at the Pacific Coliseum's GPS location, and vice versa; the one marked "Vancouver - Keefer Street" (which is the closest I can come to the PNE, btw) has the same GPS data as a site at the "Athletes' Village" (which is shown at Ontario St x W 1st Ave); and the TAFL has two sites listed as "UBC" (one of which appears to be supposed to be Thunderbird Arena). Not to mention that they have two Site 300s - not that their site numbers have relevance to the trunk anyway.
As mentioned, thanks to you and everyone else for their contributions and with luck, we should have this system mapped out pretty well, long ahead of the 2010 festivities!
