Duke Energy P25 is coming alive in NC

IcomIcR20

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@IcomIcR20 you are one helluva sleuthing fiend. I'll be up all night getting this stuff added haha. Thanks again for all you do, brother! I"l'l get started on adding these to the DB after dinner.

Mike
No rush getting it all added to the DB. I know that is a lot of work. Usually it takes days or sometimes weeks for my submissions for other systems to get added, so don't lose any sleep over it!

I appreciate all your travel, expenses, and work on this @IcomIcR20
I had already planned on visiting Mt. Mitchell while I was here since I had never been over there before, and it turns out that there are a metric ton of unconfirmed Duke sites over that way, so it worked out perfectly! No complaints here about an absolutely gorgeous drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway coupled with some Duke investigations :)
 

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For those in the Triad area, there is currently quite a bit of activity on the Sauratown Mountain and Arcadia sites:

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GPS coordinates map to Kernersville, NC
 

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For those in the Triad area, there is currently quite a bit of activity on the Sauratown Mountain and Arcadia sites:

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GPS coordinates map to Kernersville, NC

Do you have full encrypted voice following turned on? Might want to do that. You should be able to get aliases that way. I'm not seeing any aliases. Or maybe you do have full encrypted voice following enabled and the RIDs simply don't have aliases associated with them.
 

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Here's some more new ones for you all:

"BURLINGTON OPS CENTER" -- Alamance County, NC -- WRYH343/WRYJ290
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"ROXBORO RADIO BLDG" -- Person County, NC -- WRUV432
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"Greensboro 800 MHz Repeater" -- Guilford County, NC -- WNAJ727/WSAP702
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*Should be differentiated from the other "Greensboro" site already listed in the DB
 
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What shocks me is that they are still using Opensky. I was shocked to see the OpenSky_Bridge stuff. Not sure why, but I just thought they would have been completely on the P25 system. And that's obviously not true at all.
 

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Yes, they still seem to be using the SmartLink and OpenSky systems quite heavily based on the traffic I have noted. Thanks for getting the new sites entered into the DB!

Also, just a heads up that I am working on a bunch of stuff in the Wiki this evening. I added the three sites from today and will be going through to update some other information in a bit.
 

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What shocks me is that they are still using Opensky. I was shocked to see the OpenSky_Bridge stuff. Not sure why, but I just thought they would have been completely on the P25 system. And that's obviously not true at all.
Building the network is a giant undertaking, but so is installing and programming several thousand subscribers. There will be significant overlap in system usage between the old SmartZone and OpenSky systems to the P25 system until all the radios support the new system.
 

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Going through my logs, I found a site I must have forgotten to take a screenshot of:

"Greenwood OC MW" -- Greenwood County, SC -- WNPW330
Site: 33.33 NAC=021

Neighbor: 91F14.3D4-5.5
Neighbor: 91F14.3D4-10.10
Neighbor: 91F14.3D4-25.25

Channel 8-890: 856.575-1 CC
Channel 8-986: 857.175-1 SCC
Channel 8-1184: 858.4125-1 SCC
2024/08/06 13:30:58 Current site: 33.33
2024/08/06 13:30:58 Current network: 91F14.3D4
2024/08/06 13:31:01 91F14.3D4 neighbor: Site 91F14.3D4-25.25; CC=8-1016 857.3625
2024/08/06 13:31:01 Current site: 91F14.3D4-33.33
2024/08/06 13:31:06 91F14.3D4-33.33 neighbor: Site 91F14.3D4-22.22; CC=8-604 854.7875
2024/08/06 13:31:07 91F14.3D4-33.33 neighbor: Site 91F14.3D4-25.25; CC=8-1016 857.3625
2024/08/06 13:31:08 91F14.3D4-33.33 neighbor: Site 91F14.3D4-5.5; CC=8-588 854.6875
2024/08/06 13:31:09 91F14.3D4-33.33 neighbor: Site 91F14.3D4-10.10; CC=8-488 854.0625
 

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Here is my parting contribution. Until next time!

"CATAWBA MW BUILDING" -- York County, SC -- WPZT872
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"TODDVILLE OPS CENTER" -- Mecklenburg County, NC -- WSAL632
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"Liberty Hill" -- Kershaw County, SC -- WNSK759
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You've been a huge help in the past couple of weeks, thank you so much @IcomIcR20. Tomorrow I will be at RDU airport and I'll be able to check 397-53.53.

Have a safe trip back to college and a great semester.
 

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Thanks guys! I snagged those three sites while en route to campus... Made it back in one piece. I appreciate all the help with keeping everything updated regarding this system. It has certainly been fun!
 
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