American Electric Power (AEP) P25 WACN 92715

[RakkFO]

The user was changing channels on the radio.

Yes I agree probably turning the channel knob/button in search of a talkgroup

 

[mtindor]

AEP has been busy this week in Eastern Ohio. Six new sites online in one week.

 

[mtindor]

I might add that the map I mentioned above not only lists all AEP 800 mhz trunked licenses in its service areas, but it also lists the callsigns and frequencies associated with the FCC licenses. So if you are just looking at the map and are wondering what frequency you might find a P25 signal on if a site is online in your area, all of the frequencies are listed there to test.

Mike

 

[redbeard]

Out of my range to verify but it looks like Canton and New Philadelphia should be 1F6. I saw a few last night that had switched from 002.

 

[mtindor]

Out of my range to verify but it looks like Canton and New Philadelphia should be 1F6. I saw a few last night that had switched from 002.

The DB is correct for those sites. I know, it doesn't make any sense, but in the end I'm thinking there will probably either 002 or 1F6 and all the sites will use that. If they are switching at all, they have been switching from 1F6 to 002. I monitor New Phila almost daily, and it's correct. Canton was just verified a day ago. The last six sites that came online showed up as isolated / unconnected sites in neighbor lists of other sites over a year ago -- and then disappeared. So I suspect those sites had already been configured for some time and that they just recently were installed and turned on, whihc woudl explain them still being 1F6. To the techs, it's probably a trivial thing to them -- which is probably why we have a mishmash of 1F6 and 002 surrounded by each other -- which on a live system wouldn't make sense.

There is some P25 subscriber radio traffic., but not a ton. The EDACS talkgroups are, as one would guess, patched over to P25. What I've been told by somebody who has a buddy who works at AEP Steub is that they switch back and forth between EDACS and P25 depending on which is performing better for them, but that they do use P25. Many of the local fleet have the multiprotocol radios and profiles for both EDACS and P25 in their radios and can apaprently switch very quickly if they are having difficult with coverage when on P25.

Mike

 

[RakkFO]

Site: 99.99 NAC=063

Neighbor: 92715.1F6-33.33 ; Etna (Licking)
Neighbor: 92715.1F6-35.35 ; Newark (Licking)
Neighbor: 92715.1F6-42.42 ; Zanesville (Muskingum)
Neighbor: 92715.1F6-72.72 ; Lancaster (Fairfield)

Channel 0-347: 855.3375 SCC
Channel 0-521: 857.5125 SCC
Channel 0-605: 858.5625 CC

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2020/02/15 21:50:48 Current site: 99.99
2020/02/15 21:50:48 Current network: 92715.1F6 American Electric Power (P25)
2020/02/15 21:50:48 Current site: 92715.1F6-99.99
2020/02/15 21:50:48 92715.1F6-99.99 neighbor: Site 92715.1F6-42.42; CC=0-453 856.6625 Zanesville (Muskingum)
2020/02/15 21:50:49 92715.1F6-99.99 neighbor: Site 92715.1F6-72.72; CC=0-253 854.1625 Lancaster (Fairfield)
2020/02/15 21:50:50 92715.1F6-99.99 neighbor: Site 92715.1F6-35.35; CC=0-241 854.0125 Newark (Licking)
2020/02/15 21:50:51 92715.1F6-99.99 neighbor: Site 92715.1F6-33.33; CC=0-331 855.1375 Etna (Licking)

 

[mtindor]

Site: 99.99 NAC=063

Neighbor: 92715.1F6-33.33 ; Etna (Licking)
Neighbor: 92715.1F6-35.35 ; Newark (Licking)
Neighbor: 92715.1F6-42.42 ; Zanesville (Muskingum)
Neighbor: 92715.1F6-72.72 ; Lancaster (Fairfield)

Channel 0-347: 855.3375 SCC
Channel 0-521: 857.5125 SCC
Channel 0-605: 858.5625 CC

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2020/02/15 21:50:48 Current site: 99.99
2020/02/15 21:50:48 Current network: 92715.1F6 American Electric Power (P25)
2020/02/15 21:50:48 Current site: 92715.1F6-99.99
2020/02/15 21:50:48 92715.1F6-99.99 neighbor: Site 92715.1F6-42.42; CC=0-453 856.6625 Zanesville (Muskingum)
2020/02/15 21:50:49 92715.1F6-99.99 neighbor: Site 92715.1F6-72.72; CC=0-253 854.1625 Lancaster (Fairfield)
2020/02/15 21:50:50 92715.1F6-99.99 neighbor: Site 92715.1F6-35.35; CC=0-241 854.0125 Newark (Licking)
2020/02/15 21:50:51 92715.1F6-99.99 neighbor: Site 92715.1F6-33.33; CC=0-331 855.1375 Etna (Licking)

Great job, again! Mount Perry

mike

 

[RakkFO]

Man you are fast, I have a couple more for you stand by.

 

[RakkFO]

Site: 81.81 NAC=051 ;

Neighbor: 92715.1F6-66.66 ; Chillicothe (Ross)
Neighbor: 92715.1F6-72.72 ; Lancaster (Fairfield)
Neighbor: 92715.1F6-77.77

Channel 0-263: 854.2875 CC
Channel 0-369: 855.6125 SCC

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2020/02/15 21:08:43 Current site: 81.81
2020/02/15 21:08:44 Current network: 92715.1F6 American Electric Power (P25)
2020/02/15 21:08:44 Current site: 92715.1F6-81.81
2020/02/15 21:08:45 92715.1F6-81.81 neighbor: Site 92715.1F6-66.66; CC=0-463 856.7875 Chillicothe (Ross)
2020/02/15 21:08:46 92715.1F6-81.81 neighbor: Site 92715.1F6-72.72; CC=0-253 854.1625 Lancaster (Fairfield)
2020/02/15 21:08:46 92715.1F6-81.81 neighbor: Site 92715.1F6-77.77; CC=0-389 855.8625

 

[RakkFO]

Site: 77.77 NAC=04D

Neighbor: 92715.1F6-38.38
Neighbor: 92715.1F6-42.42 ; Zanesville (Muskingum)
Neighbor: 92715.1F6-74.74
Neighbor: 92715.1F6-81.81 ; Zaleski (Vinton)

Channel 0-329: 855.1125 SCC
Channel 0-389: 855.8625 CC
Channel 0-491: 857.1375 SCC
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2020/02/15 20:57:04 Current site: 77.77
2020/02/15 20:57:04 Current network: 92715.1F6 American Electric Power (P25)
2020/02/15 20:57:04 Current site: 92715.1F6-77.77
2020/02/15 20:57:05 92715.1F6-77.77 neighbor: Site 92715.1F6-42.42; CC=0-453 856.6625 Zanesville (Muskingum)
2020/02/15 20:57:05 92715.1F6-77.77 neighbor: Site 92715.1F6-74.74; CC=0-261 854.2625
2020/02/15 20:57:06 92715.1F6-77.77 neighbor: Site 92715.1F6-81.81; CC=0-263 854.2875 Zaleski (Vinton)
2020/02/15 20:57:06 92715.1F6-77.77 neighbor: Site 92715.1F6-38.38; CC=0-287 854.5875

 

[mtindor]

You are killing me man. You are a $&*% machine!

 

[RakkFO]

I got lucky today, I had to take my kid to a birthday party in Perry Co. The road the party was on just happened to have great elevation and view of the horizon. This was all captured right in the area of the MARCS Linnville site.

I have 81 in my DSD as Zaleski, if that is accurate that is quite the shot

 

[gtaman]

Looks like Ohio will be done before any of the other states. Great job.

 

[RakkFO]

I am going to Texas next month! Mike you may need to add Texas back on your google map.

 

[mtindor]

Lucky for us (RR folks) too. Hope you had a great time. Yes, 81 is Zaleski

38.38 Pleasant City (Guernsey)
74.74 Macksburg (Noble)
77.77 McConnellsville (Morgan)
81.81 Zaleski (Vinton)

 

[mtindor]

I am going to Texas next month! Mike you may need to add Texas back on your google map.

It's there brother. You just have to select the box on your left for TX for them to show up.

Mike

 

[RakkFO]

It's there brother. You just have to select the box on your left for TX for them to show up.

Mike

Crap, I am going to DFW area and they dont have sites there. Maybe my boss will understand the car rental millage if I explain I was mapping the system in TX.

 

[mtindor]

Crap, I am going to DFW area and they dont have sites there. Maybe my boss will understand the car rental millage if I explain I was mapping the system in TX.

Haha. Well, you deserve a break. My niece's husband travels a lot, and he really likes the DFW area -- and Austin when he can get there.

Mike

 

[RakkFO]

New sites I did not hear direct but for everyone's records

Site: 38.38
Channel 0-287: 854.5875 CC

Site: 74.74
Channel 0-261: 854.2625 CC

 

[mtindor]

Below is the list of sites that are likely online (but nobody has confirmed them directly). I left out Canton SE and Adena since we monitor them over here in East Ohio and they aren't online yet. The "c" designator next to the frequency indicates the last known control channel. But any of the frequencies listed could have a P25 control channel.

If you can confirm any of these sites online (WACN: 92715, SYSID of 002 or 1F6) please include all information that you can gather.

* WACN/SYSID: at minimum
* Current Control Channel: at minimum
* Alternate Control Channels
* Site NAC
* Neighbor List (including frequencies tied to each neighbor)

If you are running something other than DSDPlus you won't be able to get the frequencies associated with the neighbors. If you are running something other than DSDPlus or Unitrunker you probably can only get the WACN/SYSID and current control channel (and possibly the NAC)

11.11 Van Wert (Van Wert)
854.0375
855.0875 c
856.3625
857.3625
858.3625
859.3625
860.3625

36.36 Newcomerstown (Tuscarawas)
854.2375 c
855.4375
859.3625
859.9125
860.4125

38.38 Pleasant City (Guernsey)
854.5125
854.5875 c
856.8125
856.8875
858.8375
858.8875

74.74 Macksburg (Noble)
854.2625 c
855.5625
855.6125
857.6125
857.9125
859.3125

88.88 Fostoria (Seneca)
860.9625 c
860.9875
861.1125
861.2625
861.3125

94.94 Continental (Putnam)
855.2875
856.5875 c
857.3375
858.5875
859.8125

100.100 Fremont (Sandusky)
861.1375 c
861.2125
862.2125
862.4875
862.7125

Also, if you have DSDPlus or Unitrunker and can monitor any of the existing sites online per the database, please check them to see if anything has changed (control channel, SysID, neighbor list) and report here/submit your findings.

System: American Electric Power P25 Trunking System, various, Multi-State - Scanner Frequencies
Wiki: American Electric Power P25 Ohio Site Research - The RadioReference Wiki
Google Map: American Electric Power System - Google My Maps

Thanks

Mike