EBRCS Update

[SCPD]

Okay, pro96com on CoCo Central Today...

There were some new affiliations which aren't in the database yet which are interesting and should be logged here...

1. TGID 1004 affiliation occurred with a Radio ID # 403xxxx - I don't have a 403 series in my logs, so no clue there. Only one affiliation with TG 1004.

2. TGID 1007 - multiple affiliations throughout the day, with 4077xxx series of Radio IDs. 4077xxx is CCSO. During the same period an equal number of affiliations occurred with TG 1007 and Radio ID 16777208 - this is a Tech's radio.

3. TGID 7507 affiliation occurred with Radio # 4300227. This is a Richmond PD Radio. Two seconds later, at 7:38am, the same radio affiliated with CCSO West. That radio didn't unaffiliate with 7726 until well after 2pm this afternoon. TG 7507 is in the Richmond PD range of TGs. Richmond had Housing Authority and Public Works TGs on EDACS. Stands to reason that there are more unitendified Richmond talkgroups out there on EBRCS.


Frequencies... there are three other freqs listed in the site that aren't in the RR database. I'm not sure what these are though since I've got much to learn about these types of systems...

859.15000
406.11250
407.55000

System ID             : 1F1
System Name           : East Bay Regional Communications System (EBRCS)
WACN                  : BEE00
Tower Number (Decimal): 105
Tower Number (Hex)    : T0105
Tower Description     : CCCO Central Simulcast
Control Capabilities  : Data,Voice,Registration
Call Sign(s)          : WQMN677 WQMN677 WQM WQMY908 WQMY906
Timestamp             : Tue Jun 19 15:31:44 2012

-Tables
#Format: Table ID,Base Freq,Spacing,Input Offset,Assumed/Confirmed,BandWidth,Slots
00,851.00625,0.00625,-45.00000,"Confirmed",0.00625,1
01,762.00625,0.00625,30.00000,"Confirmed",0.00625,1
02,851.01250,0.01250,-45.00000,"Confirmed",0.01250,2
03,762.00625,0.01250,30.00000,"Confirmed",0.01250,2
04,382.75000,0.01250,9.00000,"Confirmed",0.01250,1

-Frequencies
#Format: Channel,Usage,Frequency(/Slot),Input Channel,Input Frequency(/Slot),Input Explicit(1/0),Hit Count
"00-1303","d",859.15000,"00-1303",814.15000,0,0
"01-1560","i",771.75625,"01-1560",801.75625,0,18
"01-1608","i",772.05625,"01-1608",802.05625,0,17
"01-1656","vdp",772.35625,"01-1656",802.35625,0,150
"01-1704","vd",772.65625,"01-1704",802.65625,0,169
"01-1740","vd",772.88125,"01-1740",802.88125,0,171
"01-1784","vdp",773.15625,"01-1784",803.15625,0,165
"01-1904","a",773.90625,"01-1904",803.90625,0,0
"01-1948","a",774.18125,"01-1948",804.18125,0,0
"01-1992","ca",774.45625,"01-1992",804.45625,0,0
"01-2036","c",774.73125,"01-2036",804.73125,0,0
"04-1869","v",406.11250,"04-1869",415.11250,0,0
"04-1984","c",407.55000,"04-1984",416.55000,0,0

-Neighbors
#Format: TowerID,TowerIDHex,System ID,Channel,Frequency,Tower Name
102,"T0102",1f1,"01-2062",774.89375,"ALCO East Simulcast"
103,"T0103",1f1,"00-0439",853.75000,"CCCO West Simulcast"
104,"T0104",1f1,"01-1998",774.49375,"ALCO Northwest Simulcast"
106,"T0106",1f1,"01-1728",772.80625,"CCCO East Simulcast"

 

[kma371]

I the the 406 and 850 freqs are errors

 

[SCPD]

New talkgroups active on CoCo West this morning... "radio group" to me just means this is where the radio id number falls into my "established agencies"

TGID SYST RADIOID RADIO GROUP
6308 WEST 4296075 RICHMOND FIRE
6309 WEST 4296075 RICHMOND FIRE
6310 WEST 4547750 COCO FIRE (?)
6311 WEST 4296031 RICHMOND FIRE
6312 WEST 4296035 RICHMOND FIRE

7206 WEST 4169086 KENSGNTN PD
7209 WEST 4314015 EL CRTO PD
7210 WEST 4169041 KENSGNTN PD
7260 WEST 4300448 RICHMOND PD

7715 WEST 4077042 CCSO
7724 WEST 4077054 CCSO

Edit to add: didn't HEAR any activity... these are affiliations to these TGs not belonging to radio techs...

 

[kma371]

Are you a wiki person? Maybe we can add your radio IDs to it so we can keep track of the radios to identify new talkgroups

I'd try it but I never had much luck working/editing that stupid thing.

 

[kma371]

Project status updated today, June 20, 2012:

http://www.ebrcsa.org/project_status.aspx

 

[Ben96cal]

re: coc

I don't think highland is active yet either. I can see highland and I get zero here.

Hes Possibly hearing bald or kregor?

Are they simulcasting RFD 24/7 as I'm only hearing traffic mid to late afternoon most days. Haven't heard anything on Alco East in a couple months. Are they not testing on Alco east yet?

 

[Ben96cal]

re: ebrcs

I the the 406 and 850 freqs are errors

The 4xx. freqs are off LLNL diablo site so thinking some type of link is setup between the 2 systems.

 

[SCPD]

Are you a wiki person? Maybe we can add your radio IDs to it so we can keep track of the radios to identify new talkgroups

I'd try it but I never had much luck working/editing that stupid thing.

Not much of a wiki person, no... guess I could learn if you think it would be helpful. I'm definitely logging and listening for changes as much as I can.

Are they simulcasting RFD 24/7 as I'm only hearing traffic mid to late afternoon most days.

Are you referring to CoCo Central? If so, they stopped simulcasting RFD onto Central not long after they started. I only see RFD traffic now on Central when someone affiliates with RFD from the Central cell.

 

[kingpewpew]

Are you referring to CoCo Central? If so, they stopped simulcasting RFD onto Central not long after they started. I only see RFD traffic now on Central when someone affiliates with RFD from the Central cell.

I just heard some traffic on TG 6305 RFD CoCo Central so that means someone has associated with that cell and is not simulcasted?
Still very new to this and trying to grasp.

 

[SCPD]

I just heard some traffic on TG 6305 RFD CoCo Central so that means someone has associated with that cell and is not simulcasted?
Still very new to this and trying to grasp.

Yes, this is most likely.

 

[WayneH]

The 4xx. freqs are off LLNL diablo site so thinking some type of link is setup between the 2 systems.

Nope, links don't work like that; if there is any kind of link or patch the CC won't tell you other than a TG patch. He must have briefly caught the Diablo control channel accidentally and it merged it in to the file.

 

[SCPD]

I don't know about that either, Wayne. Every time I restart pro96com on the Central cell, those channels pop up - I start the scanner on the channel first, then start pro96com....

Here they are again. Indeed, those 400 MHz freqs belong to LLNL, but this still doesn't explain the 859.15000.

Admittedly, I know very little how things work at this level. Just posting my findings, that's all.

 

[kma371]

I don't know about that either, Wayne. Every time I restart pro96com on the Central cell, those channels pop up - I start the scanner on the channel first, then start pro96com....

Here they are again. Indeed, those 400 MHz freqs belong to LLNL, but this still doesn't explain the 859.15000.

Admittedly, I know very little how things work at this level. Just posting my findings, that's all.

It's probably on autosave. You would need to go into the txt file and edit those out. Run it again and they will be gone.

 

[kingpewpew]

I don't know about that either, Wayne. Every time I restart pro96com on the Central cell, those channels pop up - I start the scanner on the channel first, then start pro96com....

Here they are again. Indeed, those 400 MHz freqs belong to LLNL, but this still doesn't explain the 859.15000.

Admittedly, I know very little how things work at this level. Just posting my findings, that's all.

For what its worth I don't get any of those freqs while monitoring the central site.

 

[Ben96cal]

re: coc central

Not much of a wiki person, no... guess I could learn if you think it would be helpful. I'm definitely logging and listening for changes as much as I can.


Are you referring to CoCo Central? If so, they stopped simulcasting RFD onto Central not long after they started. I only see RFD traffic now on Central when someone affiliates with RFD from the Central cell.

Someone has been affiliated with RFD on COCO central all day today. Still hearing RFD on central site tonight.

 

[mibzzer15]

For anyone that listens to Fremont PD...I just got news from a Communications Supervisor in FPD that they are switching to EBRCS sometime around October.

 

[kma371]

For anyone that listens to Fremont PD...I just got news from a Communications Supervisor in FPD that they are switching to EBRCS sometime around October.

My guess is it's probably more towards the end of the year. They will be on ALCO SW site, which doesn't have a cutover date yet. ALCO NW is scheduled for September 2012 so theirs will be later than that.

Hopefully that June newsletter comes out soon with updated dates.

 

[WayneH]

I don't know about that either, Wayne. Every time I restart pro96com on the Central cell, those channels pop up - I start the scanner on the channel first, then start pro96com...

If you edit them out and they reappear that makes me think you have Priority on and it's sampling more than what you think you're monitoring.

 

[SCPD]

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I just deleted the tower105 file... The wayward freqs are gone now. Don't know how that happened tho...

 

[SCPD]

... just a bit of a talkgroup update. This is log info from the CCC West system.

The log data is from the last few weeks, 4-5 or so.

81 TGs have been logged (from 957 radios)

37 of those affiliated with no hits logged.
35 of those affiliated and logged between 1 and 74 hits
13 are active talkgroups with hundreds of hits
5 are Radio Techs.

Encryption was seen on 8 of those talkgroups. While 4 of these are expected (RPD Tac 2, and 3 radio tech TGs), 4 others are more shocking, RPD 1, CCC Sheriff West, TG 7210 and 7706. TG 7210 could be another El Ceritto PD TG, while 7706 looks to be associated with CCSO.

Attached is the pro96com TG log in CSV...