East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) - DMR VHF

[empireco]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

 

[Remington12G]

Passing through Grant County getting a strong signal 161.8125 Region 3, Site 5. Im thinking Walton or Folsom.

 

[Remington12G]

Now approaching Walton and the 161.8125 signal has dropped to half and 161.815 Region 11, Site 5 has come up and is about 75 out of 100

 

[scannerboy02]

I just had a little down time at work and went up to the top of the parking garage at Good Sam Hospital in Cincinnati and on my SDS-100 I am picking up 161.825, CC: 0, Net ID: 9, Site ID: 84.

I only have my SDS with me so I'm not sure what that converts to for region and site.

I was thinking it could be Walton but maybe it's something else.

 

[Remington12G]

I actually just had a little down time at work and went up to the top of the parking garage at Good Sam Hospital in Cincinnati and on my SDS-100 I am picking up 161.825, CC: 0, Net ID: 9, Site ID: 84.

I only have my SDS with me so I'm not sure what that converts to for region and site.

I was thinking it could be Walton but maybe it's something else.

I also get Net 9 on my Unidens but multiple people get Net 10 in DSD+. Im in Cincinnati currently and will drive back to the Walton Substation in about 45 minutes. When I got off at the Walton exit I couldn't see any other frequency because of how strong it was.

 

[Remington12G]

Walton Tower located and submitted. Working on Grant County Tower currently

 

[Remington12G]

Grant County confirmed. Did not see any 151 towers at either of these sites putting out DMR. Grant County site is still showing LTR Bursts on 151 frequencies.

 

[scannerboy02]

Grant County confirmed. Did not see any 151 towers at either of these sites online. Grant County site is still showing LTR Bursts.

My guess is they will use the licensed frequencies as voice channels and the frequency blocks for control channels.

 

[Remington12G]

My guess is they will use the licensed frequencies as voice channels and the frequency blocks for control channels.

I would say your correct on that theory. I just sent in an update to the Laurel county tower which is actually in Knox (my fault, got my notes mixed up between the Keavy and Gray tower. It would make since for some of these sites however the Renaker and Lawreceburg sites have their control channel down in the 151-153MHz band as well as voice. I suppose the additional licenses at both sites will be used for voice

 

[Remington12G]

TG 79828
RID: 75722
Freq CH ID: 68
Lancaster (Garrard County)
Radio Techs testing and reading site ID's talking with a dispatcher. This traffic did not simulcast to any other site.

Courtesy: @Charlie1068

 

[Remington12G]

Radio Tech traffic (same RID & TGID) coming over Lancaster tower with the following,

Testing Site 9, radio check.
Testing Site 10, radio check.
Testing Site 11, radio check.
Testing Site 12, radio check.
Testing Site 13, radio check.

 

[Remington12G]

Now testing up to Site 17 RID's 78828 and 75722

 

[Remington12G]

Renaker Site is up.
TG 79848 - Radio Test 1,2 1,2 (RID 74925)
TG 81726 - Radio Test 1,2 1,2 (RID 74926)

 

[Remington12G]

Now performing individual calls on the Renaker Tower and more group calls on new TG's

 

[Remington12G]

TG 79868 - Radio Test 1,2 1,2 (RID 74926)
Shelbyville Site

 

[Remington12G]

161.8375 has been located, it is the control channel for the Stanton KY (Powell County) tower, voice channels are the 151 freqs. Submitting now

 

[Remington12G]

Note: Region ID 10 = 00A, Region ID 11 = 00B, an so on. This is the way the RR DB displays region ID's.

 

[scannerboy02]

Note: Region ID 10 = 00A, Region ID 11 = 00B, an so on. This is the way the RR DB displays region ID's.

That is the hex value. Most commercial radios use the hex values for programming although many of the programming software's are starting to allow decimal inputs and the software converts it.

 

[Remington12G]

Logged operations overnight, Shelbyville is active and broadcasting talkgroups. Mostly Service, submitting now.

 

[Remington12G]

Also to note users on this talk group were starting all transmissions with "Shelby", EKPC has Shelby Energy Coop as a member and they cover the same regional area that this call was in.