Chester County P25

[IStebleton]

I was looking at the FCC licenses recently and it appears that Site 10.10 may be a 800MHz Countywide Simulcast cell and Site 30.30 may be a 700MHz Countywide Simulcast cell. Has anyone noticed this change when recieving the system? Or are the sites currenty East/Cent and West?

 

[u2brent]

They are/have been licensed for more locations than have been confirmed to be in use. I'd say the DB as it currently stands listed is correct.

 

[policefreak]

I was looking at the FCC licenses recently and it appears that Site 10.10 may be a 800MHz Countywide Simulcast cell and Site 30.30 may be a 700MHz Countywide Simulcast cell. Has anyone noticed this change when recieving the system? Or are the sites currenty East/Cent and West?

I will say when I'm in Oxford area the "west" 700 side comes in better and there are places where the 800 site does not come in. When I'm in KOP/Valley Forge its the opposite. So the database is correct. Interestingly enough there are parts of South Jersey in southeastern Gloucester County that receive both 700 and 800 sites.

 

[magiclightman]

I will say when I'm in Oxford area the "west" 700 side comes in better and there are places where the 800 site does not come in. When I'm in KOP/Valley Forge its the opposite. So the database is correct. Interestingly enough there are parts of South Jersey in southeastern Gloucester County that receive both 700 and 800 sites.

Took a department vehicle down to Dover DE for a class one weekend, it was pretty quiet enough to the point where there wasnt any traffic on West Fire. Needless to say I found out that the West Simulcast reached to the DSFS in Dover loud and clear when the 1k tone went out at full volume for a EMS call.

 

[One13Truck]

I used to be able to get the VHF dispatch pretty consistently in the northeast part of the state until a few years ago. Nice to see the new system is juiced up as well. But I did notice when traveling that I’ll get this system to pick up for much longer distances than others in the area.

 

[Fred1]

DEL State Fire School is great

 

[HM1529]

Looks like talkgroup 5521 is carrying PA Turnpike District 4 traffic. I presume the county is working on or has set up a similar arrangement as Montco did with the turnpike. I don't see the talkgroup being captured on Calls, but I confirmed it active today. I have not yet seen a talkgroup active for District 3.

 

[CommJunkie]

Looks like talkgroup 5521 is carrying PA Turnpike District 4 traffic. I presume the county is working on or has set up a similar arrangement as Montco did with the turnpike. I don't see the talkgroup being captured on Calls, but I confirmed it active today. I have not yet seen a talkgroup active for District 3.

I believe District 3 is in Lancaster County, so I can't see Chester County putting it on their system.

 

[doc62]

Part of District 3 is in Chester and Berks Counties and Chester County units do respond to the Turnpike in Lancaster County.

 

[HM1529]

It's not much. The District boundary is 302.7. The Berks/Chester line is 299.9, but Station 69 (Twin Valley) covers the turnpike in Chester/Berks/Lancaster and is dispatched by Chester County, so I wasn't sure if they'd have a patch for them to use, too.

 

[doc62]

It's not much. The District boundary is 302.7. The Berks/Chester line is 299.9, but Station 69 (Twin Valley) covers the turnpike in Chester/Berks/Lancaster and is dispatched by Chester County, so I wasn't sure if they'd have a patch for them to use, too.

Not sure. I know a few years ago when I ran at 89, when we were dispatched into Lancaster County on the turnpike, I had call responding on Chester, Lancaster and Turnpike radios.

 

[magiclightman]

Can confirm that there is a turnpike TG in the county issued harris radios. Unclear if that is those units affiliating to STARNet or a patch. Adding 5521 to SDRTrunk to pass along to Calls

Looks like talkgroup 5521 is carrying PA Turnpike District 4 traffic. I presume the county is working on or has set up a similar arrangement as Montco did with the turnpike. I don't see the talkgroup being captured on Calls, but I confirmed it active today. I have not yet seen a talkgroup active for District 3.

 

[magiclightman]

Looks like talkgroup 5521 is carrying PA Turnpike District 4 traffic. I presume the county is working on or has set up a similar arrangement as Montco did with the turnpike. I don't see the talkgroup being captured on Calls, but I confirmed it active today. I have not yet seen a talkgroup active for District 3.

Safe to say that 5521 is PTC traffic, looks like there are PTC UIDs on the Chester System as well now going off the alias.

 

[HM1529]

I've noticed that it does not seem to show up 24/7. I'm wondering if it's only active when there is a call for fire/ems on the turnpike? Either via radios affiliating and calling for it or by the radio room triggering something at the console? There was traffic multiple times today that coincided with fire/ems calls on the turnpike in Chester Co. I noticed it was not appearing on Calls earlier in the day. I didn't have my own programmed scanner, nor was I in a place I would have been able to make use of it anyway.

 

[SlipNutz15]

I've noticed that it does not seem to show up 24/7. I'm wondering if it's only active when there is a call for fire/ems on the turnpike? Either via radios affiliating and calling for it or by the radio room triggering something at the console? There was traffic multiple times today that coincided with fire/ems calls on the turnpike in Chester Co. I noticed it was not appearing on Calls earlier in the day. I didn't have my own programmed scanner, nor was I in a place I would have been able to make use of it anyway.

Sounds similar to what Cumberland County does. They only enable the turnpike patch when there's an incident since they give FD/EMS TGx and then patch the turnpike to the next one in line and these TGs could change based on county activity.

 

[magiclightman]

Sounds similar to what Cumberland County does. They only enable the turnpike patch when there's an incident since they give FD/EMS TGx and then patch the turnpike to the next one in line and these TGs could change based on county activity.

Would make sense from a voice channel efficiency standpoint to do it this way. I'm based in the southern end so I don't have any direct experience with it.

 

[HM1529]

Would make sense from a voice channel efficiency standpoint to do it this way. I'm based in the southern end so I don't have any direct experience with it.

Well, two turnpike calls today and no traffic on that talkgroup, so maybe they're still testing the set up and it's not ready for prime time, yet.

 

[magiclightman]

Well, two turnpike calls today and no traffic on that talkgroup, so maybe they're still testing the set up and it's not ready for prime time, yet.

Talked to a guy whos with one of the FDs up there and he showed me that they have "TURNPK" in their county portables... not sure what thats about.

 

[doc62]

I got word tonight that the police will be going encrypted in the next couple of months and the VHF fireground broadcasts (Central/East, West) will be going away as well so the county can start the installation of the new paging system on the towers. We are supposed to be on a new fire paging system within a year. The current alert frequency will not be touched at this time.

 

[CommJunkie]

I got word tonight that the police will be going encrypted in the next couple of months and the VHF fireground broadcasts (Central/East, West) will be going away as well so the county can start the installation of the new paging system on the towers. We are supposed to be on a new fire paging system within a year. The current alert frequency will not be touched at this time.

any idea what the new paging system is? No more VHF?