AMR Wichita Falls NXDN

[nd5y]

FCC Callsign WRNZ301 (AMERICAN MEDICAL RESPONSE INC)

FCC Callsign WRNZ301 (AMERICAN MEDICAL RESPONSE INC)

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According to the license this is a two channel narrowband NDXN or iDAS trunked system.
It doesn't appear to be on the air yet. They are still using 155.235.

 

[nd5y]

"Radio service test" on 160.140 RAN 44.
So far it's showing to be a conventional repeater. Nothing on 158.4375 yet.

 

[nd5y]

They are now dispatching calls on one of the new repeaters, 160.14 RAN 44.

It's still conventional. DSDPlus shows:
Sync:-NXDN48 CB VOICE
RAN=44 VCall Group RID=1 4800 bps/Half Rate Clear KID=0
Dispatch RID is 65508 with no over the air alias.
It appears that all the mobile/portables are RID 1 with no over the air alias, or at least it isn't coming through the repeater.

I can't tell yet if the dispatcher is still in Dallas or local now.
Still nothing heard on the other licensed repeater.
155.235 does not appear to be used any longer.

 

[nd5y]

It appears they left it with dual mode or analog FM enabled with carrier squelch on the input and no output tone. Some noise or weak signal is keying it up occasionally. I can't believe anybody would intentionally do that.

 

[nd5y]

I can hear dispatch on the input (152.8625). I wonder why there are no FX1 control stations licensed.

 

[nd5y]

It appears they left it with dual mode or analog FM enabled with carrier squelch on the input and no output tone. Some noise or weak signal is keying it up occasionally.

Now it's picking up a weak CW ID of WQOT541 from Granbury.
This could be fun to listen to when the band is open.

 

[nd5y]

155.235 does not appear to be used any longer.

They are still using 155.235. Possibly only to talk to Sheppard AFB fire dispatch.

 

[nd5y]

Now they applied for two UHF trunked repeaters.

ULS Application - Industrial/Business Pool, Trunked - 0009887527 - AMERICAN MEDICAL RESPONSE INC

 

[rattlerbb01]

Now they applied for two UHF trunked repeaters.

ULS Application - Industrial/Business Pool, Trunked - 0009887527 - AMERICAN MEDICAL RESPONSE INC

Seems they’re just spitballing it at this point😂

 

[nd5y]

I don't know what's going on with them.
They have been dispatching calls on the old simplex frequency 155.235 the past few days but I think the units are still on the NXDN repeater. The other licensed NXDN repeater is still not being used if it actually exists.

I don't know why they just don't use the city's trunked system for everything. A while back I saw a medic with two hand helds, It looked like a VHF Icom or Kenwood plus a Harris 800 MHz like the city uses.

I also don't know why the FD never took over EMS like most other places around here.

 

[Wes]

I wouldn't be surprised if AMR is using Logis for dispatch like they do in a lot of other places. It's basically an Android phone locked down with a dispatching app.

 

[nd5y]

I wouldn't be surprised if AMR is using Logis for dispatch

They do. I've heard them mention it before.

 

[Ensnared]

I wouldn't be surprised if AMR is using Logis for dispatch like they do in a lot of other places. It's basically an Android phone locked down with a dispatching app.

AMR has talk groups on HOTRRS here in Waco.

 

[eg153wftx]

Being a former Wichitian I can chime in:
AMR ("Global") has basically gotten too big for their britches,and corporate business measures has greatly reduced quality of services and personnel ( AZ EMT basic= minimum wage). Here in Arizona AMR and their subsidiaries contracts for "emergency medical services" are not being renewed and EMS is going in house to the FDs (out here the FDs do all the treatment and packaging anyway and AMR is just a transport service).

 

[nd5y]

Now they applied for two UHF trunked repeaters.

The FCC rejected their application because of a frequency conflict with another licensee. They filed an amendment with another frequency pair and a license was issued yesterday.

ULS License - Industrial/Business Pool, Trunked License - WRPR923 - AMERICAN MEDICAL RESPONSE INC

 

[nd5y]

I heard what sounded like 4800 baud NXDN on 461.85 today.

 

[nd5y]

I heard what sounded like 4800 baud NXDN on 461.85 today.

They are using it today. 461.85 RAN 39 4800 baud NXDN conventional repeater.
155.235 and 160.14 are also still in use. I haven't figured out exactly what they are doing.

 

[nd5y]

Today the 461.85 repeater is off line and 160.14 repeater is still operating normally.
The dispatch control station can be heard on the repeater inputs 466.85 and 152.8625 at the same time. Also on the 155.235 analog base station. Mobiles have been using 155.235 the past few days but I haven't heard them at all so far today.

 

[nd5y]

155.235 has been mostly dead for months.
Today they set up a patch between 155.235 (analog simplex) and 160.140 (NXDN repeater).
They did some radio checks with dispatch, units and Wichita County Emergency Management. It sounded like this is intended to be permanent.