In North Carolina, Progress Energy (which is Duke Energy) has a 900 mhz trunked system, as it does across Florida, and they've been using those radios. When you make as much as Duke Energy why not get the best just in case.Noticed Duke energy carrying 900mhz APX 4000s yesterday evening. Has anyone heard of updates coming or a possible system upgrade? Seems silly running APX portables on an analog only Smartzone system.
Kind of figured it was due to lack of support. Surprised they never upgraded to XTS-2500s but I guess if the 2000s worked, so be it.The APX 4000 are replacing aging MTS2000 which are long past support. The new mobiles are APX as well replacing MCS2000. I am reasonably sure these are the only radios that can be bought and optioned to work on an analog smartzone system on 900 MHz. There is a system change / upgrade coming but it doesn't have anything to do with the APX radios that are being deployed now.
As they where needed some xts2500's where added just as apx4000's are nowKind of figured it was due to lack of support. Surprised they never upgraded to XTS-2500s but I guess if the 2000s worked, so be it.
Thanks for posting this. Confirms some things that I have been hearing. The slow growth application would be absolutely necessary given the size of this project. Of another interest, the technology is listed as Harris P25, not Harris OpenSky like the system in S.C is currently.I noticed a new pending license for Duke Energy: https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/ApplicationSearch/applMain.jsp?applID=11975093&__newWindow=false. There is a VERY interesting attachment to the license that describes the future state of the new system.
I don't know what that is.Not military spec have quick bug a frequency hopping system
Even before these there were significant changes to existing licenses / modifications to existing licenses. Will likely be an ongoing thing over the course of the multi-year deployment.Looks like Duke Energy is in the process of building out a new P25 Phase II system to cover it's service area across multiple states.
In the documents attached to the applications it appears this will be done over the next 4-5 years and have a total of 423 sites. The recent applications are for the first wave of sites in the project and cover parts of Florida, Indiana and Ohio. According to the documents the equipment for these sites is currently staged and ready for deployment to the tower site pending FCC approval.
I have programmed the frequencies for the sites in my area into a conventional system to monitor for activity, nothing yet.
Don't forget about the constant rate increasesThey should all have brand new state of the art radio equipment for how much they charge for electricity every month. That $10.58 "Customer Charge" and "Asset Securitization Charge", they had better be securing some new radio 'assets'. Don't even get me started on those "Taxes" and "Fees".