Delaware County Pa New System

[TerryPavlick]

Mobile 1
Mobile 2
Portable 1
Portable 2

Yeah obviously there are true aliases assigned to each radio (example 2732xxx displays as 73-133 at Delcom) but was hoping to clarify that a bit as consistent with a particular vehicle.

 

[shirsch101]

Question for anyone, are there multiple communication centers or just one for fire and police

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Question for anyone, are there multiple communication centers or just one for fire and police

Just one, 360 Middletown Rd, Media, PA

 

[shirsch101]

Thanks

 

[Fred1]

I pointing my yagi towards Radnor Twp along Lancaster Avenue from Coatesville at 540 ft elevation at ground level here. Is there a tower in that area?

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Radnor Twp is far away from Coatesville. There are much closer sites. See tower map here

 

[One13Truck]

The IDing is an ongoing source of entertainment. Or frustration. Depending on your patience. My home county switched P25 a few years ago. 95% of the base and mobiles for PD (Big E anyway, 💩), EMS, and Fire all follow a somewhat logical pattern.

The 5% that don’t plus the majority of people preferring to use portables means I’m still logging and adding or updating IDs on my SDSs and X36’s. Add in I’m a dinosaur that still prefers 10 codes and still lists them all in the old numbering systems and it’s a lot to track. But it keeps me busy and at least partially sane.

 

[cavmedic]

Probably getting used to handling the new radio - a button used to do this now that same location I am used to does something else

Emergency button hasn't changed its function.

The IDing is an ongoing source of entertainment. Or frustration. Depending on your patience. My home county switched P25 a few years ago. 95% of the base and mobiles for PD (Big E anyway, 💩), EMS, and Fire all follow a somewhat logical pattern.

The 5% that don’t plus the majority of people preferring to use portables means I’m still logging and adding or updating IDs on my SDSs and X36’s. Add in I’m a dinosaur that still prefers 10 codes and still lists them all in the old numbering systems and it’s a lot to track. But it keeps me busy and at least partially sane.

i wouldn’t waste too much time on individual ID’s right now until things settle down.

And not sure how two quotes popped in
But oh well

 

[Fred1]

Radnor Twp is far away from Coatesville. There are much closer sites. See tower map here

Thanks, that helps. It looks like it is picking tower in ST. Davids. I cant aim at Chads ford I live in a rental no outside antenna allowed or antenna police will fine you.

 

[radio3353]

It takes time for the users and the listeners (us) to adjust to the different radios and analog versus digital

This is the funniest thing I have heard all day. 'Takes time'? How much time? Systems on-line for years (Bucks, Montco, etc.) still sound like s**t. Sadly, IMO digital will never sound as good as analog did. (Does your cell phone audio sound as good as an old landline?) I am old enough to remember when Philly sounded as crisp as a broadcast radio station (154.145 and 154.235 MHz analog VHF days). In the 70's, my Montco fire company used 154.130 MHz analog and it was really nice sounding. No issues with where the mic was or what radios were in use (base, mobile or portable). Digital may be a solution for band crowding and trunking usage, but its readability leaves a lot to be desired (unless digital is all you have ever lived with. Then you can be forgiven for not knowing any better).

 

[W3AWF]

I pointing my yagi towards Radnor Twp along Lancaster Avenue from Coatesville at 540 ft elevation at ground level here. Is there a tower in that area?

From Coatesville, I would almost say point at the Broomall tower or the Pennsburry tower down on the county line.

I can pick up the system from South Coventry with a portable with minimal distortion from my living room. 100% from my front yard.

I held it 3/4 of the way to Parkesburg on the bypass yesterday on a portable from inside a vehicle.

 

[policefreak]

From Coatesville, I would almost say point at the Broomall tower or the Pennsburry tower down on the county line.

I can pick up the system from South Coventry with a portable with minimal distortion from my living room. 100% from my front yard.

I held it 3/4 of the way to Parkesburg on the bypass yesterday on a portable from inside a vehicle.

Good stuff! Back a few months ago I had it all the way in eastern Lancaster County by Shady Maple. I bet I could get it going up the hill to Ephrata. But yeah the Willistown tower may be your best shot. Fred1 what are you listening with?

 

[TerryPavlick]

This is the funniest thing I have heard all day. 'Takes time'? How much time? Systems on-line for years (Bucks, Montco, etc.) still sound like s**t. Sadly, IMO digital will never sound as good as analog did. (Does your cell phone audio sound as good as an old landline?) I am old enough to remember when Philly sounded as crisp as a broadcast radio station (154.145 and 154.235 MHz analog VHF days). In the 70's, my Montco fire company used 154.130 MHz analog and it was really nice sounding. No issues with where the mic was or what radios were in use (base, mobile or portable). Digital may be a solution for band crowding and trunking usage, but its readability leaves a lot to be desired (unless digital is all you have ever lived with. Then you can be forgiven for not knowing any better).

what I was trying to say it that using the microphone is different - I monitor the NJICS and some users know how to use the microphone correctly while others either "eat the mic" or are so far away you cannot hear them. I keep the volume set at a certain level but whenever the Paramedic units come on the talk group - its like they are sitting in the same room with me - I turn the volume down and then cannot hear anything else. I am familiar with the analog, had my first tuneable radios and crystal scanners when Philly was on VHF and Delco was on low band.

 

[One13Truck]

I’ve vented my frustration on the Uniden section but it probably won’t ever get anywhere. I wish they would be able to offer +/- volume offset on radio IDs similar to what we can do for TG IDs and conventional channels. 3 Chief and 136 Chief have radios I swear are stuck directly into their lungs or vocal chords by way of a megaphone. But then 6 Truck and a few others have radios so low in volume I swear they’re keying up from 3 rooms away from the mic.

 

[cavmedic]

This is the funniest thing I have heard all day. 'Takes time'? How much time? Systems on-line for years (Bucks, Montco, etc.) still sound like s**t. Sadly, IMO digital will never sound as good as analog did. (Does your cell phone audio sound as good as an old landline?) I am old enough to remember when Philly sounded as crisp as a broadcast radio station (154.145 and 154.235 MHz analog VHF days). In the 70's, my Montco fire company used 154.130 MHz analog and it was really nice sounding. No issues with where the mic was or what radios were in use (base, mobile or portable). Digital may be a solution for band crowding and trunking usage, but its readability leaves a lot to be desired (unless digital is all you have ever lived with. Then you can be forgiven for not knowing any better).

You are comparing apples to paper clips in relation to the audio.

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

When will County PD (Sheriff, parks) make the switch, tomorrow?

 

[PhillyFireFeed]

You are comparing apples to paper clips in relation to the audio.

There will always be old-timers that dislike digital. They have a preference and that's ok. The truth is, digital (to me) may not have the audio clarity that analog has, but digital beats the dog s--t out of the old analog system. Taking Whiskey's example, now we can hear Chester PD in Radnor. How did analog Sector 3 sound out there? Get used it, folks. Digital is not going anywhere.

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Sector 3 was practically non-existent for me north of 476 & Route 1 previously

 

[maus92]

I plan to take a road trip to Christiana Mall next week and I'm hoping to be in range of the new system - anyone know the points where the system degrades on the south side of Delaware County?

 

[stevecast2024]

I plan to take a road trip to Christiana Mall next week and I'm hoping to be in range of the new system - anyone know the points where the system degrades on the south side of Delaware County?

Should be able to hear it down to about Churchmans Crossing.