Blurry Broome Fire/EMS Battalion map that I forgot to paste into my previous post.
Broome County P25 Phase II TRS
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This afternoon on Sheriff TG 27210 I noted radios with ID's in the 7xxxxxx's and radio call unit #'s 9972 and 9973 signing out of service. They're the first units I've caught transmitting on this talkgroup rather than just patched from VHF.
too bad it was not easier to read but it does help out
Unit IDs 99xx belong to the DA's office. You are hearing school resource officers call in and out of service via the trunked system.
Battalion 1 talk groups are assigned to the east. Battalions 2,3,4 are assigned to the west. Most law enforcement talk groups will be assigned to the west however Sheriff and a few shared LE talk groups will be countywide.
Just to confirm, the sheriffs office is not countywide yet?
It is countywide. That talk group works in east and west.
Can confirm that Colesville was completed yesterday. Windsor Highway installs scheduled to begin on Tuesday morning, 11/22.
Broome Transit dispatch has indeed made the move from 453.725 analog to talkgroup 27380 on the P25 system.
I'm hoping Vestal PD will be able to make the switch soon. One recent morning around 6am I turned on the scanner and heard comms about a criminal incident near the University. An officer was transmitting an urgent message on his portable that was largely unintelligible. Broome could not understand it but fortunately other units reported they were responding and were close. A few moments later a 'Suspect in custody" was just clear enough to be understood. However, over the next half hour at least half of the transmissions from multiple offices at the scene were too garbled to be understood by the Broome dispatcher. The issue may have been both due to the radios and their location. This could have been a major officer safety risk. They definitely need new radios sooner rather than later.
I'm hoping Vestal PD will be able to make the switch soon. One recent morning around 6am I turned on the scanner and heard comms about a criminal incident near the University. An officer was transmitting an urgent message on his portable that was largely unintelligible. Broome could not understand it but fortunately other units reported they were responding and were close. A few moments later a 'Suspect in custody" was just clear enough to be understood. However, over the next half hour at least half of the transmissions from multiple offices at the scene were too garbled to be understood by the Broome dispatcher. The issue may have been both due to the radios and their location. This could have been a major officer safety risk. They definitely need new radios sooner rather than later.
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The highway trucks working the booming metropolis of Lisle are on the system as of yesterday.
kc2klc
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I don't spend much time at my radios, but during my "a few minutes here, a few minutes there" monitoring (using an RTL-SDR & discone antenna w/SDRTrunk on a Windows PC), so far I've logged talkgroups 27210 (BC Sheriff Disp), 27100 (BC FD/EMS Paging), 27380 (BC Transit Dispatch), 27355 (Kirkwood DPW), 27363 (Union Hwy Dept) & 27212 (Endicott PD Dispatch).
I've said this before about these new systems. Such is digital radio... very finicky and audio is quite often indiscernable.
kc2klc
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I believe you misunderstood the post you responded to. I interpret it as applauding the arrival of the new system (perhaps due to increased coverage, rather than the fact that it's digital) because the difficulty in communication occurred on the legacy (analog) system.
Oh, apparently I did.
However I stand by my assertion that these digital systems do not have the best audio and are oft times difficult to discern.
However I stand by my assertion that these digital systems do not have the best audio and are oft times difficult to discern.
*opinion
Shared by many
And easily proven.
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