Delco Fire Radio Tower Location Question

[dcfdjim]

Does anyone happen to know which tower Delco uses for Channel 4, 506.5125 MHz? According to the FCC database, Delco maintains five fixed-site antenna locations, however, the database indicates that the FCC allows the county to operate numerous frequncies for each of these locations. With this said, the Delco system does not simulcast each frequency on every tower simultaniously and I was wondering if anyone knew which repeater is used for Channel 4. Thank you.

 

[JRM5204]

I have an old County sheet that says it's simulcast on Eddystone, Lima, and Radnor. If that helps you out.

Joe

 

[6211A]

I have an old County sheet that says it's simulcast on Eddystone, Lima, and Radnor. If that helps you out.

Joe

That is half-correct.

Fire 4 used to be only a backup channel to Fire 3, therefore it was on the same repeater.

FB started seeing an infux of use on Fire 3, because most county companies operate on it. To help this burden, they put another tower up somewhere in the Newtown Square area and assigned it to channel 4.

 

[dcfdjim]

JRM5204 & 6211A,

Thank you for your replies. Do any of you guys know if the county is ever going to loop all of their sites together so they all fire simultaneously when someone keys up on any frequency.

How about converting to a 500 MHz trunked system...any rumors the county will ever do this?

Jim

 

[6211A]

JRM5204 & 6211A,

Thank you for your replies. Do any of you guys know if the county is ever going to loop all of their sites together so they all fire simultaneously when someone keys up on any frequency.

How about converting to a 500 MHz trunked system...any rumors the county will ever do this?

Jim

It would make sense for the county to go to a 500 MHz trunked system (and then I would also have more use for my HT1550XLS) but I doubt it will ever happen.