EBRCS site question

[gottria]

Getting my SDS150 setup and added the different cities\departments in ALCO as favorites. Do I need to keep the simulacst sites that are in CCCO since I'm not monitoring anything in that area? Anyone else care to share how they have theirs setup? Too me a few days to finaly get something to my liking.

 

[mcjones2013]

What I do is program all the sites, assign the respective site number to its quick key, then turn off the sites I can’t receive from my listening spot. That way if I’m ever traveling through I can turn on the other sites as needed.

For example, I’m in Sacramento and can only receive Site 6 - COCO East Simulcast. I have that on Quick Key 6, and have Quick Key 1-5, and 7-10 turn off for the other sites. I take the 80 corridor semi-often, so I’ll turn on the others as I’m traveling.

 

[gottria]

So if you turn off all the sites then it's def right? SO you listen to everything on the EBRCS? Right now I'm struggling with how to add ALCO sheriff, Fire, Oakland PD and FD, Hayward, SL, ext. Right now I just added each department in their own Favorites and turned off all the CCCO simulcasts, so far so good. Bur niw struggling with system quick keys, site quick keys, and department quick keys and how they relate. I spent this much money I'm determined to get it figured out. And thanks for replying!

 

[daniel18522]

Should probably be noted that all Law enforcement on EBRCS is now encrypted as of last October with the exception of Vallejo and Benicia.

 

[gottria]

I did not know that, I knew all the upgrades have been done to go encrypted but didn't know they turned it on. Thanks.

 

[mcjones2013]

I don’t personally assign departments to quick keys on trunk systems. I’ll just lock out individual departments/talkgroups as they appear. I instead assign the sites to those department QKs.

How I have my programming (everyone does it different)

QK 01 - SRRCS List (Sacramento system)
QK 01.01 - SRRCS System
QK 01.01.03 - SRRCS Site 03 (usually turned off)
QK 01.01.12 - SRRCS Site 12
QK 01.01.13 - SRRCS Site 13 (usually turned off)
QK 01.01.14 - SRRCS Site 14 (usually turned off)

QK 02 - Other Trunked Systems (usually turned off)
QK 02.01 - EBRCS
QK 02.01.01 - EBRCS Site 01
QK 02.01.02 - ERBCS Site 02
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. (sites 03-09)
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QK 02.01.10 - EBRCS Site 10

I have about 15-20 (can’t remember off the top of my head) different public safety trunked systems in that QK 02 favorite list, and I turn them on and off as I’m traveling through the state.

QK 03 Conventional Systems (my local county and surrounding counties plus 1-2 more counties beyond those surrounding).
QK 04 Federal Agencies (FBI, FPS, USFS, USCG, etc.)
QK 05 State Agencies (CHP, CSP, DFW, DOT, etc.)

QK 99 SRRCS Input Frequencies (if I’m close to an incident but can’t get a signal on the site due to simulcast distortion, I’ll listen to the input side to at least hear the units).

I have some other stuff (Business, DMR, LTR, NXDN, CDF Statewide Load, some testing lists) on other QKs but didn’t feel the need to list them above.

 

[ScanRafael]

I make my favorites lists based upon location and only add the respective sites to each favorites list. For example, my Oakland Airport List consists of ALCO NW Simulcast and ALCO SW Simulcast. My Richmond lists consists of only COCO West Simulcast.