Alabama Highway Patrol, Troop G. Not hearing most patrol car transmissions, but hearing dispatch

[wsp44]

The public utility where I work just switched to Southern Linc. It's mediocre at best and has already had multiple failures in less than a month since the rollout. It's scary to think of really mission-critical agencies being stuck with that crap.

Georgia DPS has been using it for about 6 months now on L3 Harris subscribers, majority of troopers or DNR officers I've spoke with say other than it not having great in building coverage, it works great. But you also have to consider what they were using before, and it wouldn't take much to improve... and at least they were conventional P25 and not just analog.

 

[RRR]

.....Southern Linc system for a while. It is LTE with AES-256 and situation awareness on...

What is "Situation awareness"?

 

[eddiemax]

Lately, I've been hearing both dispatch and unit traffic of TGID 40400 ALEA on the Providence Repeater in Jefferson County. I've not been hearing that traffic until recently.

 

[eddiemax]

Is there a way to find these repeaters? Only two are listed for Troop G in the database. I tried scanning all frequencies between 140.000 and 160.000, while troopers and dispatch were talking, in hoping of finding which frequencies the troopers were on but it didn’t work.

In one case the trooper was literally right across the road from me. I could only hear the one sided conversation from dispatch only.

I’m still a total beginner at all of this.

I'm in western Jefferson County and use the AIRS system Gilmore and Providence repeaters to hear JeffCo Sheriff channel 2 and the local fire departments. I lock out all the other traffic that may be included because I'm not interested in hearing that traffic.

The Providence repeater is located in extreme western JeffCo near Lock 17. As I stated in my other post, I'm now hearing both dispatch and unit traffic of Troop G (TGID 40400) on the Providence repeater. It's not being heard on the Gilmore repeater in western JeffCo, however.

Here's the repeater info from the AIRS system if you are within the range of the Providence repeater and want to try listening to Troop G that way. It's possible that some of the other repeaters may be broadcasting TGID 40400 as well. If you're in their range you may want to give them a try as well.

 

[ssime]

Over the last two or three days I have noticed I am hearing, Alabama Highway Patrol Troop G, dispatch but rarely hear transmissions from individual troopers. Usually when this happens it means they are just too far away. However, today while getting launch one performed a traffic stop right across the street from where I was. I heard dispatch loud and clear but nothing from the Trooper so half the conversation was missing. There is a live stream from Troop G and I notice its the exact same situation on the live stream. What is going on here? I can still hear both dispatch and Troopers when listening to Troop F.

I notice that Troop G, but not Troop F, is listed as also being part of the Alabama Interoperable Radio System (AIRS) Alabama Interoperable Radio System (AIRS) Trunking System, Varies, Alabama but as a VHF patch. Is it possible they are moving over to P25 and this is why I am not hearing the transmissions? If that is the case, why am I hearing dispatch?

Idk about that troop I hear both in Mobile area troopers I get both on digital and analog frequency they use

 

[threeofnine]

I'm in western Jefferson County and use the AIRS system Gilmore and Providence repeaters to hear JeffCo Sheriff channel 2 and the local fire departments. I lock out all the other traffic that may be included because I'm not interested in hearing that traffic.

The Providence repeater is located in extreme western JeffCo near Lock 17. As I stated in my other post, I'm now hearing both dispatch and unit traffic of Troop G (TGID 40400) on the Providence repeater. It's not being heard on the Gilmore repeater in western JeffCo, however.

Here's the repeater info from the AIRS system if you are within the range of the Providence repeater and want to try listening to Troop G that way. It's possible that some of the other repeaters may be broadcasting TGID 40400 as well. If you're in their range you may want to give them a try as well.

Thanks! I actually upgraded to an SDS100 and I am picking up Troop G on the Jefferson County Simulcast and the Huffman (St Vincent) sites. I’ve also noticed I’m not hearing them on the two towers closest to me, Warrior and Greysville.

 

[mcems79]

The public utility where I work just switched to Southern Linc. It's mediocre at best and has already had multiple failures in less than a month since the rollout. It's scary to think of really mission-critical agencies being stuck with that crap.

we were using southern link for a little while here in mobile for our MDT's but the coverage was so bad MCCD ended up switching all the users to verizon.