Instead of making a new thread for each discussion of every event on this county's sites, I'll just start an El Paso County thread. This may be of interest to locals here that monitor the comms on the sites and/or log usage via Pro96Com.
Not commonly known, but DTRS sites do not randomly assign user transmissions to just any channel on the site. There are usually just a handful of frequencies that are used most of the time with others being utilized as load increases and even those are assigned real-time to users in a certain order according to loading. Note: Some sites even reserve certain channels to be used only by certain users such as RTD.
Today, while the radio shop was conducting monthly maintenance and tests on the Stanley Canyon site (4-012), they changed the configuration around a little. They added three new voice channels and changed the CWID (i) channel.
Before today, the Stanley Canyon site had 4 main voice channels used 95% of the time with 6 other overflow voice channels (including 2 DFB channels that are shared with Peterson AFB/Airport DTRS site and used by one site or the other at times of extremely max loading, usually only a few times a week).
Now only 3 out of those 4 original mainly used voice channels plus the 3 new channels make up 6 channels that are used 95% of the time. That 4th previously commonly used voice channel is the new CWID (i) channel and probably used as an overflow voice channel (when agencies are very busy).
The new CWID (i) channel: 851.6750 (which used to be one of the main user channels).
The previous channel the CWID was broadcast on was 853.1000.
These are the three new user channels:
853.7625
857.0125
859.0125
The other three main user channels are:
851.0750
852.0750
852.4000
So again, these 6 user channels above are used equally most of the time. Other channels on this site are overflow channels when loading increases.
Now if only they would add some channels to the Templeton Gap site here that racks up thousands of "busies" a month (from observation, that is mainly from several street maint and bus transport channels chatting about mostly BS with the same priority as public safety fire, EMS, and law enforcement agencies, and it is usually the public safety users that get the busy tones when trying to transmit).
Not commonly known, but DTRS sites do not randomly assign user transmissions to just any channel on the site. There are usually just a handful of frequencies that are used most of the time with others being utilized as load increases and even those are assigned real-time to users in a certain order according to loading. Note: Some sites even reserve certain channels to be used only by certain users such as RTD.
Today, while the radio shop was conducting monthly maintenance and tests on the Stanley Canyon site (4-012), they changed the configuration around a little. They added three new voice channels and changed the CWID (i) channel.
Before today, the Stanley Canyon site had 4 main voice channels used 95% of the time with 6 other overflow voice channels (including 2 DFB channels that are shared with Peterson AFB/Airport DTRS site and used by one site or the other at times of extremely max loading, usually only a few times a week).
Now only 3 out of those 4 original mainly used voice channels plus the 3 new channels make up 6 channels that are used 95% of the time. That 4th previously commonly used voice channel is the new CWID (i) channel and probably used as an overflow voice channel (when agencies are very busy).
The new CWID (i) channel: 851.6750 (which used to be one of the main user channels).
The previous channel the CWID was broadcast on was 853.1000.
These are the three new user channels:
853.7625
857.0125
859.0125
The other three main user channels are:
851.0750
852.0750
852.4000
So again, these 6 user channels above are used equally most of the time. Other channels on this site are overflow channels when loading increases.
Now if only they would add some channels to the Templeton Gap site here that racks up thousands of "busies" a month (from observation, that is mainly from several street maint and bus transport channels chatting about mostly BS with the same priority as public safety fire, EMS, and law enforcement agencies, and it is usually the public safety users that get the busy tones when trying to transmit).
