Brevard County South Tower

[ElroyJetson]

What, they're going to switch over the EG tower that soon? So when does Rockledge switch over, presumably to north?

 

[K9JRF]

I don't see them switching EG or Rockledge for at least 6 months, it won't be till they bring the Beach Simulcast online first.

 

[ElroyJetson]

I'm hearing conflicting reports on that. Some say that there will be only two simulcast cells. Others indicate three.

 

[SherwoodPolice]

If all goes as planned they will switch the Eau Gallie tower on the 15th and bring it into the South Simulcast system. The plans are for 3 simulcast systems according to the info I was told.

 

[K9JRF]

I'm hearing conflicting reports on that. Some say that there will be only two simulcast cells. Others indicate three.

The paperwork I've seen show 3 and I know the radios currently have 3 sites programmed into them North , South, and Beach. Altho anything is possible.

 

[K4SVT]

So what needs to be switched in my radio?..

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[ElroyJetson]

Check the database.

 

[K9JRF]

They turned on LCN 7 on the south simulcast Earlier. LCN 7 is 853.5875

 

[SherwoodPolice]

March 10th LCN Order South Simulcast

Looks like a change was made to the south simulcast system New LCN order for now.

 

[K9JRF]

It's the same order they just turned off repeaters for lcn 15,16,20

 

[SherwoodPolice]

This includes LCN 7 For the folks who can't follow the feed on here. Luckily nothing was needed to change the 436hp even though 15,16 and 20 were turned off.

 

[K9JRF]

I have noticed in the last 10 minutes missed transmission on LCN 12 and 14.

 

[SherwoodPolice]

15, 16 and 20 were turned back on. Disregard my last LCN order post.

 

[K9JRF]

They have all the LCN's back online this morning...

 

[ElroyJetson]

According to the documents on simulcast EDACS systems, all the repeaters should now be GPS disciplined and accurate to their FCC assigned frequencies to a tolerance of just 1 Hz.

But, using the FCC menu feature in my M5300 mobile radio, on the frequency error screen, I'm seeing that the radio is reading the various system repeater channels as being all over the place, from within 40 Hz to more than 250 Hz off frequency. Relative to my radio, that is.

My radio is probably due for a tune-up, but the point is, if all the system repeaters should now be dead on their assigned frequencies, then the frequency error that my radio shows should be consistent regardless of channel number.

I wonder what's up with that.

And I wonder if it might have anything to do with the fact that my radio has become a bit erratic about decoding PV transmissions. Some decode, others don't. And it's the radio, because another radio may decode one my mobile will miss.

I think I need to deprogram my radio, leave in just a conventional test channel, send it in and get it realigned, and then reprogram it and see how it works after alignment.

 

[K4SVT]

If i had the cables and autotest on the 3920b i would tune it up for you

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[ElroyJetson]

Who are you working for now?

 

[K4SVT]

I work for a contractor the maintains radios and repeaters for the airports.

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[K4SVT]

Motorola XTS radios and changing over to Relm P150 radios

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[Bote]

Have there been any changes to the fire talkgroups? I'm seeing nonsense in the database like this:

410 03-032 A BCFR Tac 41 BCFR Tac 41 - District 40
417 03-041 A BCFR Tac 41 BCFR Tac 41

which deflates my confidence in the accuracy of any of the other talkgroups listed there.

Also, I'm inserting trunks in my Uniden 996 sites in FreeScan with freq=0.000 MHz for those LCNs that are omitted from the list. Is this necessary on newer Unidens? I gather from reading this thread that it might not be.

Thanks.