My bad, yes you are right. I mixed up ONQ and GO
Metrolinx Rail Traffic Control
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My bad, yes you are right. I mixed up ONQ and GO
slicerwizard
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IIRC, it's "OnQ" now... 
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Zero activity on any of the frequencies. I will deprecate this until it becomes active again. Metrolinx - Rail Traffic Control Trunking System, Golden Horseshoe Area, Ontario - Scanner Frequencies
160.395 (not in that group) was used last night with 1 RAN with clear communications. Not clear if it is related or not.
160.395 (not in that group) was used last night with 1 RAN with clear communications. Not clear if it is related or not.
mbstone99
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Tonight I am hearing automated locomotive alarms on 160.9500 NXDN96 RAN 0 TG 0. It's 4am and I am still hearing them every 10-15 minutes.
Matt
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They could still be simplex frequencies. P25 DMR NXDN and even dPMR all allow radios to be simplex with a TG used as a PL/DPL. This would also explain why the signals are very local and not covering a huge distance. A second check would be to look at the signal levels anything part of a network should have all users the same signal strength. If each user is a different signal strength this would also tend to indicate a group of simplex channels operating in NXDN.
ATCTech
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I think we're seeing a discrete frequency come to life on all the new towers being populated at Metrolinx locations, obviously focusing on the rail stations over the bus depots. Once they go (no pun intended!) fully operational, I'm curious if they'll rebroadcast the mobile (train) transmissions across other towers or be truly pure simplex on a site by site basis.
There would however have to be some kind of automation to keep the mobile radios on the appropriate frequency if that's the case. There's a fair bit of microwave hardware on most of them, so site linking looks likely.
There would however have to be some kind of automation to keep the mobile radios on the appropriate frequency if that's the case. There's a fair bit of microwave hardware on most of them, so site linking looks likely.
ATCT good point. It is possible that the separate freq are being linked via microwave/hardline or IP to the various stations. This is similar to what CN is doing for their main line freq. RTC (Montreal) sees the receiver that is active and autoselects the transmitter site associated to that receiver, this may something similar. I highly doubt each station has 10 or so radios set up for the freqs people are hearing activity on. This does not rule out a freq agile transmitter/receiver at the station. GO RTC could be selecting it and telling it to use 16x.xxx at station XXXX.
161.550 and 160.890MHz area active from the south end of Barrie again.