Charleston P25(Help)

[casselman1972]

I need some help on the Charleston P25 rebanding. I am very lost, I am using ARC96 software with a Pro96 scanner. What do I need to do to get this up and working? Lo Chan? High Chan? Offset? Base? and step? What goes where? I am new to this? and need help with this.

 

[brian]

Exaclty which sites are you trying to program, with which frequencies?

 

[casselman1972]

Exaclty which sites are you trying to program, with which frequencies?

Palmetto P25
Location: Charleston, SC
County: 5 counties
System Type: Project 25 Standard
System Voice: APCO-25 Common Air Interface Exclusive
Last Updated: Changed Site # 101 (Charleston Co. Simulcast) to 101 (Charleston Co. Simulcast)
Hits: 8138

Charleston Co. Simulcast 856.48750 856.73750 856.93750 857.73750 857.93750a 858.48750a 858.73750 858.93750c 859.48750
859.73750 859.93750 859.93750 860.23750 860.48750 860.73750 860.93750
102 Mt. Pleasant (FUTURE)
103 McClellanville 851.11250 851.95000 852.71250 853.18750c 853.95000c
105 Columbia 866.47500c 866.86250a
162 Anderson Co. Simulcast 851.16250 851.21250 851.53750 851.55000 852.07500 852.21250 852.57500c 852.60000c 852.96250c
853.16250c

 

[casselman1972]

Brain, just want to lt you know you are a big help. Thanks for all the work that you do.

 

[brian]

Happy to help any and all whenever possible.

My understanding (and based on my visit to Charleston a few weeks ago) is that Site 101 (the Charleston Simulcast) is the only site that's operational with voice right now. It is not using rebanded frequencies yet, and if fact won't use any rebanded frequencies because of none of them are 866-868. The PRO-96 should work just fine just programming 858.9375 with standard bandplans.

I know you're up near Georgetown, and if you're hoping to receive the McClellanville site, it is not operational yet.

 

[casselman1972]

Charleston

I am picking up somethings on the McClellanville site but it is not showing the talk groups. I am in mot. mode. What mode do I need to be in. Oh and it is the Mt Pleasent site that is not up yet. Oh all so I am using a reband table that Wane in news had on here. So I do not need to use the reband table?

 

[brian]

I stand corrected on McClellanville being operational. Good to know.

What control channel frequency are you monitoring? Is it 853.950? It should be programmed in MOT mode. Go to that channel in Manual mode and it sould say 96:1D9 and give you a decoding percentage. And it'll also tell you T103, which is the tower site number. That'll confirm you're hearing the McClellanville site.

I've never tried to monitor a rebanded 800MHz Motorola system, so perhaps someone who has can jump in and offer any necessary correction. But the way I read it, if the system is a P25 system, and 1D9 is a P25 system, then the custom bandplan/tables are not necessary. That's only for rebanded 800MHz Motorola systems using the 3600bps control channel format.

 

[casselman1972]

p25

It is 853.9500. But it is showing three ids 96: Sy1D9 72% and BEE00 76% and. T0103 @ 86%

 

[brian]

Sys ID is 1D9
WACN is BEE00
Tower is 103

Those are three different pieces of information about the site that are displayed when monitoring a P25 system.

You're definitely on the correct system. Set the bank to MOT mode and set the bank to Open, and you should hear some traffic, though probably not all traffic that's carried on the Simulcast system.

 

[trunktracker71]

thats true with the simucast system all of the traffic seems to be on that north and south but on the 103 site mcellenville the only stuff im getting is the southend and yes i have my pro 96 in mot mode and i havent had any problems with anything on the new freqs yet

 

[casselman1972]

I im getting North Charleston PD and CCSD so far off the 103 McClellanville site and a few more. How are you getting that site all the way in Darlington?

 

[trunktracker71]

i have a newly installed 800 yagi that about 25 feet in the air and it has increased my 800 coverage greatly not only can i get charleston during the day now but in getting as far as beaufort county at night now as far as everything eles im hitting horry ,gtown,williamsburg,berkley,and russelville and points west and north such as sumter clerendon ,lee ,kershaw,and richland 800 sites so it has really helped out on my coverage

 

[casselman1972]

Are you using the yagi on the pro96? how much futher did the range increse after you put it up? Where did you buy it from and cost? I need more range. Might be something I need if it will work for me. I have the pro96 just got in in November.