oakland trunk Switching to Rebanded System tomorrow

[Ben96cal]

Can anyone confirm.. Got this off a local board.


I was talking with Bob Kelty, he said Oakland will switch over to new 800MHz rebanding tomorrow. He also mentioned their system is "alpha foxtrot uniform."

I have yet to set up my scanners to follow SF, Oak, or SMO. I guess all those freq and TGs looks like too much work for me (I don't go to those areas much). I guess SMO will use 480 MHz for some time before big switchover to 700 MHz (I cannot help but think of a huge money pit that system will be with additional towers required to cover all that rural area).

 

[tom4]

Does anyone know what happen i can't follow oakland anymore did they reband or go dig?

 

[kma371]

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Does anyone know what happen i can't follow oakland anymore did they reband or go dig?

We need more information that that. What freqs are you using and what scanner do you have?

 

[tom4]

pro 162 and i iam on the senica site i wasn't having this problem last week

 

[Ben96cal]

oakland

Still hearing it as of 0946 on edacs from SSF

 

[tom4]

iam hearing trafic but all service no dispatch

 

[tom4]

ok i got it they were on 15 -157 it was locked out for some reason but thanks for the help
is it just me or does the voice traffic on the radio sound different

 

[trooperdude]

ABC7 News just had a segment.

Oakland PD and Fire go live on the new P25 system tonight.

 

[SCPD]

Oakland Police & Fire Get New Radio System | NBC Bay Area

According to this they go live today at noon.

 

[tom4]

I know nothing about p25 scanners can anyone recommend one that will follow oakland

 

[Markinsac]

The Uniden 396XT and 996XT will scan both analog and P25 traffic.

The report in the news report noted earlier is so wrong on many levels, and lacks some professional phrasing. It won't of itself make things easier for other agencies to integrate - if they are on a different system, they will have to use one of the interconnect systems.

I also love the statement "The city officially throws the switch on the new squawk boxes at noon today."

 

[Ben96cal]

re: oakland

Still hearing normal traffic on edacs as of 16;26

 

[korpseofdeath]

I did a small search and couldn't find anything with a time on when they would switch. I currently have my pro-164 listening, can hear every transmission on FD and PD. We'll see how it continues for tomorrow.

 

[cozmo]

New Freqs

Here are the new freqs. For a PSR- 500 scanner Set it to P-25 auto and add a wildcard in and it will work just fine.


OAKLAND DIGITAL P-25 RE-BANDED



851.1750

851.4500

851.6625

852.1125

852.1375

852.2875

852.7250

852.8875

853.1750

853.2000

853.4625

854.1875

854.4125

 

[cozmo]

Oakland pd

Some new talk groups for PD and Fire are,


Patrol 1 = 31553

Oak Fire Ch 1 = 31681

City Wide = 65506

Piedmont PD Ch 1 = 32001

 

[MtnBiker2005]

What is the primary control channel freq today on the new system ?

Anyone have the Pro96com report logs (tower.txt) for the new P25 system ?
http://www.psredit.com/pro96com/

 

[kma371]

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Some new talk groups for PD and Fire are,


Patrol 1 = 31553

Oak Fire Ch 1 = 31681

City Wide = 65506

Piedmont PD Ch 1 = 32001

Please submit new information to the database also. Thanks

 

[vince48]

i'm at work right now, but is the new system signals stronger and better audio?

vince48

 

[kg6wfy]

Oakland Upgrade

Yes Ben, Oakland has indeed moved to APCO P25. It was all over the news yesterday. They've been having trouble with the old EDACS system, experiencing dead areas in certain parts of the city.

 

[rstrose]

Cosmo I am curious what was your source for those freqs for the system? Are those the GWIN reservoir tower freqs?