Edison FD

[ansky]

Does anyone know what the Edison FD 460.525 freq is used for? Is that a simulcast of the TRS system? Sometimes I hear activity on there, but much of the time I hear "noise" as if the transmissions are being encrypted. Anybody have info on this?

 

[TonyS]

IIRC it's the main dispatch and comms channel. Yes, it's a patch off the TRS system. The same is being done for EMS on Edison's old pd freq 453.525. I don't hear any noise like you describe. Do you have PL enabled?

 

[ansky]

IIRC it's the main dispatch and comms channel. Yes, it's a patch off the TRS system. The same is being done for EMS on Edison's old pd freq 453.525. I don't hear any noise like you describe. Do you have PL enabled?

I don't have the PL enabled, but often in the middle of a transmission it will suddenly sound garbled or scrambled.

 

[elk2370bruce]

Edison has the capability of shifting from analog to digital/digital encrypted at will. That could account for this.

 

[TonyS]

True, but I've never heard EFD encrypted. It's always been in the clear.

 

[edisonfire]

Re: Edison FD UHF

Minus the PL, you may be catching interference. I believe a police agency in Westchester County used/uses 460.525 as some MDT type channel

 

[ansky]

Minus the PL, you may be catching interference. I believe a police agency in Westchester County used/uses 460.525 as some MDT type channel

Whatever "noise" I'm hearing tends to come in pretty strong. It may even be some local interference. Does EFD have a strong enough signal to make it into Jersey City?

 

[GM]

Any encryption that you may hear on the Edison Fire channels/talkgroups comes from the dispatch (headquarters) side; for some reason (politically motivated), the Fireground 1, 2 and Inspectors TG's are encrypted on that side only. Mobil units are in the clear. The best part: HQ can't switch that function off either (from what I've been told). Otherwise else, it's just simply interference that occurs on the digital side and then just repeats itself to the analog patch. Remember: this 3600 baud mixed mode system is one of the "first P25 systems" in the US, so "looks like they bought the one with the bugs in it."