EBRCS Update

[jmhayes]

2105 - Berkeley

Testing this morning on ALCO NW tg 2105 "Berkeley Fire Battalion Chief to Sergeant"

 

[kma371]

Caught this today while they were "testing coverage":

TG 6022 TAC O 10
TG 6023 TAC O 11

I'm not sure yet if it was SRV or ConFire

ETA: appears to be ConFire doing the testing but the channels are no doubt shared between them.

I was able to confirm this set of talkgroups is for training purposes. "Oscar" or "O" zone.

 

[WayneH]

I refer to them now as the TACO channels. :lol: Anyhow, after reviewing some past documents every radio on the system is going to have an Interop zone. Public Safety radios will have additional zones for Interop that are smaller in operation (i.e., County restricted for example). My feeling is that the 1xxx are the larger area Interop channels. There will probably be ones specific to a City too.

 

[inigo88]

I refer to them now as the TACO channels. :lol:

Awesome!

 

[inigo88]

Per a DB submission: Berkeley PD has started issuing their APX6000 portables. Vehicle mobile installs are going to be ongoing for the next few weeks. Berkeley PD's UHF channel will be patched to their EBRCS talkgroup.

 

[SCPD]

My feeling is that the 1xxx are the larger area Interop channels.

Just to back this up, TG 1015 was being used by ALCO SO at yesterday's Raider game. I was hearing it on CCCO Central...

 

[jmhayes]

Berkeley PD's UHF channel will be patched to their EBRCS talkgroup.

Hearing Berkeley PD #1 on 3105 this morning.

 

[jmhayes]

Hearing Berkeley PD #1 on 3105 this morning.

Plus 3106 is #2, and (weirdly) 3107 is confirmed as Channel 4. As long as I have been monitoring Berkeley PD there's always been a "hole" between 2 and 4 ... like there's a curse for having a channel 3?

 

[SCPD]

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Ch. 3 was/is a car to car channel. Maybe they still have it implemented somehow.

 

[silagi]

ALCO SW testing this afternoon. Radio Techs on TG-3655. Heard some fire guys testing radios first on TG-2662 which they ID'd as TAC-22. After that they switched to TG-2662 which they ID'd as "Command 2". One of the users on the radio was ID'd as "Battalion 2". Also this morning on TG-3355 I heard 1-X-2 calling Fremont. Only one transmission heard.

 

[inigo88]

Plus 3106 is #2, and (weirdly) 3107 is confirmed as Channel 4. As long as I have been monitoring Berkeley PD there's always been a "hole" between 2 and 4 ... like there's a curse for having a channel 3?

No mystery. Berkeley PD Ch 3 was 460.025, UHF CLEMARS. Interop will now be handled through law enforcement interop talkgroups on EBRCS, so they have no use to skip BPD Ch 3.

 

[kma371]

No mystery. Berkeley PD Ch 3 was 460.025, UHF CLEMARS. Interop will now be handled through law enforcement interop talkgroups on EBRCS, so they have no use to skip BPD Ch 3.

Their conventional channel 3 is listed as 460.300 in the DB, are you sure?

 

[kma371]

Speaking of Berkeley, does anyone know if the old UC Berkeley system is still active?

 

[inigo88]

Their conventional channel 3 is listed as 460.300 in the DB, are you sure?

Wow, yeah. I had it backwards, but I believe the DB is wrong though as well. All the Berkeley PD lists I'm looking at are inconsistent.

From Kelty GRS Golden Gate:

460.175 / 465.175 - Berkeley PD Ch 1 Dispatch
460.250 / 465.250 - Berkeley PD Ch 2 Secondary
460.050 / 465.050 - Berkeley PD Ch 3 Records
460.025 / 465.025 - Berkeley PD Ch 4 Mutual Aid (CLEMARS)
460.400 / 465.400 - Berkeley PD Ch 5 Tactical
460.300 / 465.300 - Berkeley PD Ch 6 Tactical

In this case, 460.30 went from being Ch 3 to Ch 6, 460.05 went from being Ch 4 to Ch 3, and UHF CLEMARS became Ch 4. I'm starting to think the Kelty book was right all along (and the DB was wrong) because they are patching Records 460.05 into EBRCS tg 3107 (the third talkgroup after 3105).

I used to monitor Berkeley PD a lot back home and never heard them using the 460.40 or 460.30 Tacs, so I don't think they were used very frequently.

 

[silagi]

No hearing on ALCO NW what sounds like maybe Albany PD units on TG-3055,

 

[jmhayes]

does anyone know if the old UC Berkeley system is still active?

I have heard no traffic on ALCO NW from UC Berkeley other than PD. The rest of the system is on the old equipment.

 

[kma371]

I have heard no traffic on ALCO NW from UC Berkeley other than PD. The rest of the system is on the old equipment.

Well I know the shuttles are on the new system though

 

[jmhayes]

I know the shuttles are on the new system though

I have heard traffic on the old tg 944 ("BUSSES") in the last hour. I haven't heard anything on 3611 today, been listening on and off for most of it.

 

[jmhayes]

I used to monitor Berkeley PD a lot back home and never heard them using the 460.40 or 460.30 Tacs, so I don't think they were used very frequently.

Of course now something interesting just happened: BPD is chasing a car, and there's traffic on 3108 (which would be the 4th BPD channel) and someone said "You're on the wrong channel, go back to 3; 3 is the old 4" ... So I think the db is right at this point: 3107 is now called "3" and is what the old "4" was; and "new 4" is 3108 and it is assigned to BPD, though I'm not sure what its actual use is. So maybe "3" is gone for good now.

 

[kma371]

Of course now something interesting just happened: BPD is chasing a car, and there's traffic on 3108 (which would be the 4th BPD channel) and someone said "You're on the wrong channel, go back to 3; 3 is the old 4" ... So I think the db is right at this point: 3107 is now called "3" and is what the old "4" was; and "new 4" is 3108 and it is assigned to BPD, though I'm not sure what its actual use is. So maybe "3" is gone for good now.

OK, but who's on first?