Alectra Utilities

[ATCTech]

At least one of the two set-ups here started decoding again after darkness set in. This from 410.3875 as of course was last evening's find.

 

[mikewazowski]

Edgar might be on the air now. Seeing TIII Site:S2-2.1 DCC:1 on 410.3875

I've added the system to the database: Alectra TIII Trunking System, Various, Ontario - Scanner Frequencies

 

[VA3ADP]

Edgar might be on the air now. Seeing TIII Site:S2-2.1 DCC:1 on 410.3875

I've added the system to the database: Alectra TIII Trunking System, Various, Ontario - Scanner Frequencies

Great work! Hopefully, we will see some TG's pop up.

 

[mikewazowski]

Yesterday morning I saw a bunch of rids from 830001 to 830011 in my Seen Radios log with no corresponding activity in the Events log (affiliations?).

Today I’ve got a OVCM Group call on group 202 using channel 346 from one of those rids. I assume 410.3875MHz is channel 346 possibly.

Not sure if I had some noise or these are legit decodes.

 

[mikewazowski]

Starting to see some activity on the Edgar site.

DSD+ is showing 410.3875MHz as channels 345 and 346. Also seeing mention of 373 and 374.

Groups are 202, 203 and 204.

 

[ATCTech]

Looking at 410.3875 down here now and the signal strength is twice what it's been as recently as this past Monday, although DSD+ is still reporting S2-1.2 DCC:1 so presumably still coming from the same location. I'll let it run tomorrow and see what if anything turns up as new data.

 

[ATCTech]

It took 5 hours but radios did appear! 410.3875 CC.

 

[mikewazowski]

Same activity noted on Edgar S2-2.1.

 

[ATCTech]

Completely different range of RIDs though.

 

[mikewazowski]

Typically I see registration requests for 830001 to 830011.

I'm seeing the Group calls coming from 999901 and 99902 (same as your activity). I suspect these are probably base stations since the calls are OVCM which I believe is an All Call type thing.

 

[ATCTech]

410.3875 CC signal level is now a solid 50dB over the noise floor here, a considerable increase from just 3 weeks ago and easily 40db stronger than when I first reported seeing it active in December. I'd surmise that means sites are coming online fairly regularly now.

 

[mikewazowski]

They were testing on Friday and I managed to snag a couple of talkgroup names. Unfortunately I missed out on most of them due to poor decodes.

Hamilton and Aurora/Markham were the two I got.

 

[ATCTech]

Thanks Mike. So far zero activity today over nearly 3 solid hours. Updates to follow if there's anything to report.

 

[EJB]

FWIW I've been trying to listen to this frequency without any success.

I'm downtown Hamilton with height but no signal.

 

[mciupa]

Eric, make sure your LCN is set to 172 and not channel ID 345, if you are using a Uniden scanner .

 

[EJB]

Using a SDS100 and 396t in search mode for a control channel or vc, Nada here.

 

[mbstone99]

Hamilton is still using the old Con+ system. I still am seeing encrypted traffic on TG 105 and no new T3 systems have popped up around here.

Matt

 

[mikewazowski]

Alectra hasn't switched over to the new system but there's been lot's of testing going on including coverage testing in Hamilton and St Catherines.

I would suspect the control channel would be on 410.3875MHz.

 

[mbstone99]

It looks like the Tier 3 is starting to come alive slowly. There been a bit of activity on this system from last night/this morning on the Edgar Site. I am not sure if its testing or what but I see TG's 201 to 208, 210 and 1677215 all with a few hits with RID's in the 8XXXXX range and 9XXXXX range.

Matt

 

[ATCTech]

Edgar from Hamilton at 410MHz? What is the CC frequency you're watching?