American Electric Power (AEP) P25 WACN 92715

[iceman977th]

Anyone happen to know what areas are transitioned to P25P2 yet? I've been playing with my ingest, which is decoding MARCS fine, have the current active control channels plugged in, but none of em show decoding control in SDRTrunk. I see the occasional blip for data and that's it. I've programmed the active CC's in as both P25P1 and P25P2 and nothing even with adequate signal at the house (and by adequate I'm saying -24 and above on one CC)

Mike

 

[n8jsw]

As far as I know all of AEP in Ohio is P2 and if you’re talking tdma I don’t think any site in Ohio yet has switched

 

[mtindor]

Anyone happen to know what areas are transitioned to P25P2 yet? I've been playing with my ingest, which is decoding MARCS fine, have the current active control channels plugged in, but none of em show decoding control in SDRTrunk. I see the occasional blip for data and that's it. I've programmed the active CC's in as both P25P1 and P25P2 and nothing even with adequate signal at the house (and by adequate I'm saying -24 and above on one CC)

Mike

If you are in OH or WV and none of the control channels will decode, make sure you are using C4FM and specify Phase I CC. If you sill can't get any to decode, try switching to Phase II CC in SDRTrunk for them and see what happens. In Kentucky I can't really say because it's been a while since we've monitored the KY sites via tropo. When they were last monitored by us East Ohio Crew, they were all FDMA control channels.

Some of the KY sites haven't been verified online -- See the AEP wiki. And if you do look in the wiki, the control channel listed was the one that was active on the site at teh time it was monitored -- and it may have changed.

Can you be more specific regarding each AEP site you are programming in to SDRTrunk?

Mike

 

[iceman977th]

If you are in OH or WV and none of the control channels will decode, make sure you are using C4FM and specify Phase I CC. If you sill can't get any to decode, try switching to Phase II CC in SDRTrunk for them and see what happens. In Kentucky I can't really say because it's been a while since we've monitored the KY sites via tropo. When they were last monitored by us East Ohio Crew, they were all FDMA control channels.

Some of the KY sites haven't been verified online -- See the AEP wiki. And if you do look in the wiki, the control channel listed was the one that was active on the site at teh time it was monitored -- and it may have changed.

Can you be more specific regarding each AEP site you are programming in to SDRTrunk?

Mike

Found my issue. SDRTrunk Nightly is not playing well with P25 decoding at all. I switched back to final, and manually set a single frequency for each CC, no issues staying locked now. Getting steady CC lock on Catlettsburg KY and Greenup KY now.

Hopefully this will get fixed on the nightly build soon so I can get my Calls ingest going. Right now I can only use one or the other, and my county has both conventional analog and conventional P25 so I either have to run two instances or deal with either poor analog squelch or bad P25 decoding.

 

[mtindor]

Found my issue. SDRTrunk Nightly is not playing well with P25 decoding at all. I switched back to final, and manually set a single frequency for each CC, no issues staying locked now. Getting steady CC lock on Catlettsburg KY and Greenup KY now.

Hopefully this will get fixed on the nightly build soon so I can get my Calls ingest going. Right now I can only use one or the other, and my county has both conventional analog and conventional P25 so I either have to run two instances or deal with either poor analog squelch or bad P25 decoding.

When you get a chance can you fetch the list of neighbors for those sites from SDRTrunk and post them, in case there are any updates.

Thanks

Mike

 

[iceman977th]

Sure.

Greenup KY



Catlettsburg (Boyd KY)


Ironton (which if I remember right is actually in Kitts Hill)

Those are the only three I'm actively receiving at the moment. South Point fades on me (I believe that's the one out near the college, so about 12 miles from me) I have a Lana coming and probably should look at some RF filters at some point. Lana is a temporary configuration until I can get a proper multicoupler in a few weeks.

 

[mtindor]

Sure.

Greenup KY

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Catlettsburg (Boyd KY)
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Ironton (which if I remember right is actually in Kitts Hill)
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Those are the only three I'm actively receiving at the moment. South Point fades on me (I believe that's the one out near the college, so about 12 miles from me) I have a Lana coming and probably should look at some RF filters at some point. Lana is a temporary configuration until I can get a proper multicoupler in a few weeks.

Thank you!

 

[mtindor]

@iceman977th ,

Did you say you were going to be setting up a Broadcastify Calls feed for those three sites on American Electric Power P25 ? If so, that would be great. The more the merrier! I run the Steubenviile one, and I know there is one other online BCFY Calls feed.

If you do, you'd want to do three separate calls nodes, one fer each.

Mike

 

[iceman977th]

@iceman977th ,

Did you say you were going to be setting up a Broadcastify Calls feed for those three sites on American Electric Power P25 ? If so, that would be great. The more the merrier! I run the Steubenviile one, and I know there is one other online BCFY Calls feed.

If you do, you'd want to do three separate calls nodes, one fer each.

Mike

I'm working on ironing out the kinks on a large Calls ingest for the area. But yes, I am hoping to do so. I'm hoping to have one at the house, potentially moved to our club's tower site, and I have access to another site about 30 minutes west of here that would overlap that might become one as well.