It would kind of make sense they really want to test all the nooks and crannies of the campus buildings to see if there are dropouts and where they are. It's a bit like being in a hospital. The antenna could be on the roof but if you're in the basement you could be getting zilch.
Delaware County Pa New System
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There was a BDA installed in the new building during construction. The company could be optimizing that being there is RF now
Lots of testing today.
Lots of recordings to go over but last weekend I took a quick beach run that took me through the 10-20. Lots of files to still get through but so far while in the QTH I give a thumbs up.
My 436 was rolling on the Conventional and caught very little activity (to be fair for whatever reason no matter what antenna I’ve tried my 436 always picks up the Delco conventional poorly compared to everywhere else. My SDS 100 always does better but I had that recording the P25 only).
Basing on timestamps in the files and over the air I can guesstimate where I was in my travels when recordings were made. The Delco P25 coverage was great compared to the new Delaware State P25 system which was total garbage coverage compared to their old system. My only complaint (and my not being a target user this is meaningless) is I hate the short tone sets. I would prefer them the length Cumberland, York, or New Castle uses if the old 1/3 is going away. When scanning and not locked onto the dispatch TG most times the quick tone sets especially if it was a 1 or 2 company dispatch misses the tones and sometimes even the beginning of the automated dispatch. Not an issue for anyone using the system but as a traveling whacker it’s a small gripe. Otherwise it’s sounded great so far!! Unless anything changes I won’t be in the area until next Spring or Summer so I’ll look forward to hearing it officially on the air for everyone in my next pass through.
My 436 was rolling on the Conventional and caught very little activity (to be fair for whatever reason no matter what antenna I’ve tried my 436 always picks up the Delco conventional poorly compared to everywhere else. My SDS 100 always does better but I had that recording the P25 only).
Basing on timestamps in the files and over the air I can guesstimate where I was in my travels when recordings were made. The Delco P25 coverage was great compared to the new Delaware State P25 system which was total garbage coverage compared to their old system. My only complaint (and my not being a target user this is meaningless) is I hate the short tone sets. I would prefer them the length Cumberland, York, or New Castle uses if the old 1/3 is going away. When scanning and not locked onto the dispatch TG most times the quick tone sets especially if it was a 1 or 2 company dispatch misses the tones and sometimes even the beginning of the automated dispatch. Not an issue for anyone using the system but as a traveling whacker it’s a small gripe. Otherwise it’s sounded great so far!! Unless anything changes I won’t be in the area until next Spring or Summer so I’ll look forward to hearing it officially on the air for everyone in my next pass through.
Ya gotta look at it this way, dispatch time is critical. Especially when there are stacked pages waiting in a cue to go out and that cardiac arrest pops in.
Having listening to Berks for years, the long tone sets gets annoying as hell droning all day long.
Unfortunately, p25 call alert couldn’t be implemented , and that would have made listening pleasurable.
Having listening to Berks for years, the long tone sets gets annoying as hell droning all day long.
Unfortunately, p25 call alert couldn’t be implemented , and that would have made listening pleasurable.
I get it but the whacker in me hates it. Heck my department and a few around us still use the 8 second GC tone sets.
Minor complaint though. All else sounds great so far. I’ll look forward to actually hearing more activity as I cruise through next year. Like I said for whatever reason I never have much luck picking up the conventional so the change to P25 will be cheered.
Minor complaint though. All else sounds great so far. I’ll look forward to actually hearing more activity as I cruise through next year. Like I said for whatever reason I never have much luck picking up the conventional so the change to P25 will be cheered.
The conventional system, while sectors are simulcasted, isn’t county wide simulcast.
There are some days I get it great at home and other days it nearly opens squelch , and that’s on a kenwood NX. Depends on the propagation.
I forgot to turn it off over night, woke up to DFQ signals on the legacy system at 0130. Then ducting really helps in that regard but hinders everything else.
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USDD / Honeywell reached out to develop their Zetron interface this week. So there may be some hope for p25 call alert paging in the future. Most of the pagers are already programmed though so that would require time.
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Looks like the POCSAG paging system has been down since about noon today. Wondering if that is a planned part of the P25 system buildout or a temporary glitch. Fingers crossed for glitch...
