About 30 minutes ago, for about 8 minutes, on Fairfax County's TRS, an announcement was made on all police dispatch channels (and I assume 4A - Fire dispatch) that the radio system would be entering a failsoft test, and to switch to certain channels for dispatch (all I caught was channel 1,3, and 7), keep radio traffic low, not to use tac channels, and that emergency buttons would not work.
I frantically tried to program the Fairfax County frequencies into my scanner to try to map frequencies to failsoft channels, but couldn't get them in fast enough.
A quick suggestion:
I have done this with Fairfax, and will make one for all other TRS's that I scan: For every trunked radio system you monitor, make another group with the actual frequencies, for if the radio system goes into failsoft mode, so you can still listen.
(In case someone does not know what failsoft is, here's a real basic description: When the computer running the trunked radio system fails, all the radios switch over to conventional operation, on pre-designated frequencies - it rarely happens)
I frantically tried to program the Fairfax County frequencies into my scanner to try to map frequencies to failsoft channels, but couldn't get them in fast enough.
A quick suggestion:
I have done this with Fairfax, and will make one for all other TRS's that I scan: For every trunked radio system you monitor, make another group with the actual frequencies, for if the radio system goes into failsoft mode, so you can still listen.
(In case someone does not know what failsoft is, here's a real basic description: When the computer running the trunked radio system fails, all the radios switch over to conventional operation, on pre-designated frequencies - it rarely happens)
