Central Texas NEXEDGE System
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That's going to depend on where you are as far as Signal Strength. Looking at the RRDB it looks like the Bexar County sites are the most active. Of course it could also be that there aren't many listeners in Williamson or Travis Counties.
If I get the time I may try to set up Wilco and Travis on my SDR set up and see what I can hear.
If I get the time I may try to set up Wilco and Travis on my SDR set up and see what I can hear.
We are running on that system, trunked using Kenwood NEXEDGE radios at the company I work at and we talk on it from Waco to San Antonio. I'm not sure if my service is sketchy at times or it is my antenna being not set correctly maybe. I'm using a 1/4 wave antenna. It is pretty good coverage but varies significantly at times.
Which sites can be accessed by subscriber units is programmable. Some customers only need to access one site, some might need to access all of them.
When I lived in MA there was a NXDN site (it's still in operation) that a few private ambulance services used. They could access every site. There was also a local taxi company, which could only access the site in their service area.
The same goes for MotoTrbo repeater systems.
So far I've had no luck accessing the Baylor, Scott & White NXDN system even though there are sites in Pflugerville and Round Rock.
When I lived in MA there was a NXDN site (it's still in operation) that a few private ambulance services used. They could access every site. There was also a local taxi company, which could only access the site in their service area.
The same goes for MotoTrbo repeater systems.
So far I've had no luck accessing the Baylor, Scott & White NXDN system even though there are sites in Pflugerville and Round Rock.
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I've wondered how that system truly covers and is maintained as it is in a weird spot with Bearcom and their relationship with Motorola.
For those who are unaware, Bearcom acquired CTS and all of it's airtime resources (this included the old Wear radio Type 1 stuff in the Waco area) in 2016 and immediately sold off all of the airtime to an investment group. In the Austin (CTS/Texas Comm) and San Antonio (All Points of San Antonio) markets, CTS was selling onto All Point of Round Rock's Connect Plus system. Well, the investment group decided to build their own Connect Plus system for the Austin/Belton market (leaving the Type 1 system in Waco hobbling through life with some independent Capacity Plus here and there in the Waco market). Some drama happened, the investment group's assets were frozen and the licensee who they were leasing spectrum from took over the equipment (happened to be the other founder of All Points who sold the San Antonio location to CTS and later acquired Advantage in Kerrville).
Then comes 2019 and S&P is acquired by Bearcom along with that NXDN system because Bearcom and MCA are having their own version of the Quickening across the US (there can be only one). Bearcom decides to keep the NXDN system and continues to maintain it. The Scott & White NXDN system is a whole extra can of worms...but the bid for that was awarded to S&P prior to the acquisition and at one point it was pushed back to EF Johnson for much of the North Texas deployment.
For those who are unaware, Bearcom acquired CTS and all of it's airtime resources (this included the old Wear radio Type 1 stuff in the Waco area) in 2016 and immediately sold off all of the airtime to an investment group. In the Austin (CTS/Texas Comm) and San Antonio (All Points of San Antonio) markets, CTS was selling onto All Point of Round Rock's Connect Plus system. Well, the investment group decided to build their own Connect Plus system for the Austin/Belton market (leaving the Type 1 system in Waco hobbling through life with some independent Capacity Plus here and there in the Waco market). Some drama happened, the investment group's assets were frozen and the licensee who they were leasing spectrum from took over the equipment (happened to be the other founder of All Points who sold the San Antonio location to CTS and later acquired Advantage in Kerrville).
Then comes 2019 and S&P is acquired by Bearcom along with that NXDN system because Bearcom and MCA are having their own version of the Quickening across the US (there can be only one). Bearcom decides to keep the NXDN system and continues to maintain it. The Scott & White NXDN system is a whole extra can of worms...but the bid for that was awarded to S&P prior to the acquisition and at one point it was pushed back to EF Johnson for much of the North Texas deployment.
Good information. I know that Bearcom bought a few radio operations in eastern MA back in 2021-22. One was a NXDN UHF network which is still operational. Another is a smaller Capacity Plus 800 Mhz in western MA. The third was a smaller 900 Mhz Capacity Plus system that went dead in 2023 shortly before I moved to Texas. Rumor was it was converted to some sort of LTE type system.
They do seem to be assimilating systems like the Borg.
I still have the Scott & White system on my list of things to try to listen to on my SDR set up.
They do seem to be assimilating systems like the Borg.
I still have the Scott & White system on my list of things to try to listen to on my SDR set up.
