700MHz P25 in Sacramento? CHP??

[Sac916]

Mobile or portable? If it was a mobile, I wouldn't think that he could monitor SRRCS while outside of the car on his VHF handheld. On the contrary, the new extender would give him this capability, right?

I'm talking about portables/handheld. CHP has a batch of SRRCS portables issued to them for their use. A few CHP patrol units and their SACCATS team carry them. I don't know how many CHP vehicles actually have SRRCS radios installed, if any.

 

[officer_415]

Okay, so the officer is no longer able to monitor SRRCS while outside of the car because now he has to carry the new 700 MHz portable instead of the SRRCS portable. That makes sense.

 

[scannerboy02]

A few CHP officers in the Sacramento area have had the EF Johnson radios programmed with SRRCS talk groups for a while.

Now that they use the EF Johnson for the VRS they no longer use it for the SRRCS while out of the car. When they are in the car they can get CHP traffic over the car radio and still use the EF Johnson for the SRRCS.

 

[officer_415]

That makes even more sense. Thanks!

 

[ssd]

they my still have the srrcs in the efj. radios. just in a new zone on the radio. and they may not know how to set up the scanne list for the vsr zone. and srrcs zone. and the radio guys might not want to spend a long time working on it. it talks a long time to set it up in the radio cps.

 

[officer_415]

Can an officer scan conventional and trunked channels at the same time on his duty radio? I expect he would have to put the extender on priority to avoid missing his own dispatch traffic, but I think it would be annoying to have the SRRCS audio cut out every couple of seconds while the radio checks the extender for traffic (although I guess chippies are used to the chopping sound of the old extender). And they could still miss the beginning of dispatch transmissions intended for them.

I know officers who use their primary radio to monitor other agencies, but they only do it on trunked systems where the preemtive priority keeps them from missing their own dispatch traffic. If they want to monitor agencies that do not use the same trunked system, they do so with a scanner.

 

[ssd]

yes you can scanne conventional and trunked talkgrups at the same time like i said it is just a lot of work in the cps to set that up. and you can not set up priority scan in a radio that will scan conventional and trunking talkgrups, weill in the motorola cps you cant.

 

[officer_415]

From what you are saying, it sounds like a CHP officer could not scan both the extender and the SRRCS on the same radio because there is no way to set up the extender as a priority channel. He would miss his own traffic. Is that correct?

 

[WayneH]

yes you can scanne conventional and trunked talkgrups at the same time like i said it is just a lot of work in the cps to set that up. and you can not set up priority scan in a radio that will scan conventional and trunking talkgrups, weill in the motorola cps you cant.

I don't get the impression you've programmed EF Johnson P25 portables before. What Motorola does and what EF does are two completely different things.

 

[ssd]

No I have not played. With any efj radios. So can the efj do the sacnne conventioanl and trunking and do the priority then? Sorry if I was worng I have played with the astro 25 cps and astro saber cps and mts200 so I know it some what well

 

[WayneH]

VRS01 769.16875 799.16875 0DAD - North Sacramento Office
VRS05 769.41875 799.41875 0DB1 - Yuba / Sutter Office
VRS07 769.44375 799.44375 0DB3 - Woodland Office

Official list:
Gold (Primary) VRS01
Gold (Alternate) VRS10
Black (Primary) VRS07
Black (Alternate) VRS12
Green (Primary) VRS03
Green (Alternate) VRS08
White (Primary) VRS04
White (Alternate) VRS11
Brown (Primary) VRS05
Gray (Primary) VRS02
Gray (Alternate) VRS11

North and South Sac CHP 700 radios will have Sac City and County TG's in them. Several zones worth.

Also, the "CHP700" channels will have the possibility for encryption if the radio user so chooses (and a key is loaded).

 

[officer_415]

Alright, so the VRS channels are assigned by color, not by office. That's what I suspected originally.

 

[scannerboy02]

Gold (Primary) VRS01
Gold (Alternate) VRS10
Black (Primary) VRS07
Black (Alternate) VRS12
Green (Primary) VRS03
Green (Alternate) VRS08
White (Primary) VRS04
White (Alternate) VRS11

Brown (Primary) VRS05

Gray (Primary) VRS02
Gray (Alternate) VRS11

Confirm no alternate for Brown?

Thank you for posting this.

 

[ScannerDude244]

What does alternate mean car to car?

 

[scannerboy02]

Got a good amount of Black 2 traffic today on VRS12 near the Academy in W. Sac.

 

[WayneH]

Confirm no alternate for Brown?

I don't have any info on what will go in the Brown area radios.

I don't know how they'll use primary over alternate. It's just a separate zone with the same setup at the primary.

 

[WayneH]

What does alternate mean car to car?

No, same use as primary. The radio just uses a different freq/NAC to steer the VRS.

 

[R1VINCE]

Today, for the first time from my place, I heard the TURQUOISE being simulcasted on what I have listed as "WOODLAND RPTR 8 769.4687".

Since I live in the Turquoise, I can hear them loud and clear on anolog, but on P25 I was only getting 1-2 bars with appx. .25second delay on the digital side.
Ill try to post a recording or video later.

 

[ScannerDude244]

No, same use as primary. The radio just uses a different freq/NAC to steer the VRS.

ah ok, Do the new chargers come pre install with the VRS? Or is it still in field testing up north?

 

[officer_415]

Confirm no alternate for Brown?

I don't have any info on what will go in the Brown area radios.

Brown alternate is VRS11, the same as Gray and White.