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Thanks again for the compliments.

I do want yall's opinion though. I've had a few requests to add sheriff/town police channels to my feed, is that something worth adding or will the traffic be to much for most listeners? I'll have the analog fire/EMS paging channel set to priority. Thoughts?

Also, I'm not receiving some traffic from fire units. For example, I'm listening to a 10-50 in Duck and have heard nothing from Duck fire, just talk from central (scanner is in Wanchese). I have Dare north and south dispatch and all of the FD TAC talkgroups. Is the traffic from the fire units not repeated throughout the simulcast system? I still haven't extracted the talkgroups from my friends radio, I hope to do that today

BTW, it won't be until next week until I get the last of the talkgroups in and alpha tags going, my cheap ebay server I bought was a dud.
 
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Also, I'm not receiving some traffic from fire units. For example, I'm listening to a 10-50 in Duck and have heard nothing from Duck fire, just talk from central (scanner is in Wanchese). I have Dare north and south dispatch and all of the FD TAC talkgroups. Is the traffic from the fire units not repeated throughout the simulcast system?

I presume you're monitoring via the Nags Head or Manns Harbor site. Typically, a system radio monitoring the Duck traffic would have to be affiliated with the site you are monitoring for you to also hear the traffic.

The geographic shape of Dare County will pose some extra issues for anyone in your area (Wanchese) trying to monitor communications from the northern and southern ends of the county.

Additionally, Dare County requested a number of modifications to their F.C.C. license for the trunked system in the beginning of May. Included in the request was the addition of 6 additional repeater output frequencies for just the Buxton site, and the corresponding 6 input frequencies for use by all radios systemwide.

There appears to be no other frequency additions or changes at the other trunking sites in the system. It will be interesting to see how these additional frequencies are put to use, and if they will carry communications that will only be monitorable on the Buxton site.

ULS Application - PubSafty/SpecEmer/PubSaftyNtlPlan,806-817/851-862MHz,Trunked - 0005195974 - DARE, COUNTY OF
 

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He should still hear traffic on TAC 11. All of the sites are interconnected, in other words I can hear any events going on in Buxton from the Kitty Hawk site that I pick up.

The reason for the FCC application is indeed so they can make Buxton a separate trunk site. The system is a solutely useless south of Frisco Tackle Shop because of all of the intermod. They NEED to make all 6 sites separate trunk sites. The idea of using a simulcast system when you are surrounded by water is just a dumb idea.
 

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What's with all of the blank posts?
 

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And just to clarify, even though Buxton will be a separate trunk site, all comms will still be transmitted at the remaining Dare County sites.
 

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Sure does....

Well, maybe not...
 
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I feel like I'm spamming but the RR forum seems to be posting blank replies and won't let you edit them. I finally have all the talkgroups uploaded to my scanner (HUGE thanks to Tim!). I'm going to get my temporary server set up today so I can broadcast alpha tags (which are very much needed now).
 

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Changes at Buxton

Buxton site is changing to a Multicast Site within the system. The remaining sites will still be Simulcast. VIPER on the other hand will remain unchanged...multicast at all sites. Making simulcast work with the water and all the sites virtually in a straight line is almost impossible.....glad to see that they are making the change. It still has the potential lto create problems but hopefully with the middle site being multicast it wont be as evident.

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When monitoring from Salvo, the only way I could reliably get voice (and data when monitoring the CC with Pro96com) was to REMOVE the antenna from my Pro-106 and place it in the window line-of-site with the Rodanthe antenna.

I know the county decided NOT to go with VIPER, and built their own system, BUT, since VIPER is upgrading to P25, has there been any thought or talk of networking VIPER and Dare 800, and using the VIPER sites on Hatteras Island. I can't imagine the state/SHP uses much channel capacity at Rodanthe and Buxton, so the existing 5 channels per site would PROBABLY suffice.

Also, THANKS for the live feed. I haven't had a chance to listen in, but am excited to be able to listen. If you get reliable service from the north and south fire talk groups, and the EMS talk group, there's probably no need to even feed the VHF paging channel. All it will do is tie the feed up with long tones. And all voice that goes over fire paging also goes out over 800mhz in one way or another. Just my two cents.

BTW, what's the time frame for switching Buxton to a separate site?
 

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Also, THANKS for the live feed. I haven't had a chance to listen in, but am excited to be able to listen. If you get reliable service from the north and south fire talk groups, and the EMS talk group, there's probably no need to even feed the VHF paging channel. All it will do is tie the feed up with long tones. And all voice that goes over fire paging also goes out over 800mhz in one way or another. Just my two cents.

Thanks for the tip but I'm keeping the 155.7375MHz channel. I run twotonedetect so I need the tones, plus that analog frequency won't be susceptible to any multipath interference or other issues with the digital system.. Also, I have that channel set to priority to override any other traffic.

Also, I added in about 15 "Dare County Interoperability Public Safety" talkgroups, are these the VIPER interop channels mirrored on Dare's system?
 
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Ok, got the Dare VIPER TGs uploaded and as I'm typing this I can hear Medflgiht, woohoo! Hopefully one of those includes the pre-hospital reports EMS gives to OBH. I also included the Outer Banks Hospital TG from the VIPER medical network and the Dare TG from the Domestic Preparedness and Readiness Region. Not entirely sure on those TGs though, but we shall see.
 

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I'm aware you can only broadcast the NOAA feeds on wunderground, however due to low interest I might not add it at all and just add law enforcement to Dare's feed but we will see.

Sorry about going back a few posts to comment on this...

I would bet there's a lot more interest than you know... especially among homeowners that don't live there on the islands! They might like to be able to hear the local NOAA Weather Radio, rather than get handed all of the crap commercial media gives. And during hurricane season, I bet it would be a rather popular feed if there are any storms headed in that direction, for ANYONE to listen to!

Just like RR feeds, Wunderground feeds are also available in multiple apps and other services...

It's hard to gauge interest for a weather radio feed... I bet there is more interest in a NOAA feed from Cape Hatteras than you might imagine. :)
 

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You got a good point. Since neither of my other two scanners are capable of mil-air frequencies (no bombing range!), I'm going to go ahead and start up a feed for KIG77. It comes in pretty good here, but I probably wont start it up until next week. The storm reports on there are always very interesting.
 

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Dare Co Updated

Lots of good updates for Dare County and their 9600 system! If you haven't checked the database in the last few hours, your in for a treat. Several new talkgroups added from all different agencies.

Thanks to all of those who have contributed!
 

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I saw that this morning and laughed. I have all of those plus another couple of TAC groups that aren't listed. But it's close to complete for the most part. Much better than it was that's for sure. I submitted an update request.
 
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