Fort Detrick

[Chris52]

Hello all

This may be a long shot but I’ll ask anyway. It seems the Ft. Detrick site has lost tremendous signal strength with in the past few days. This site has always had a big foot print all over Frederick County and it comes and goes as you can see my screenshot with me being only a few miles away. I’ve restated my computer, checked my antenna and restarted Unitrunker 2.1.0.106 multiple times with the same result. Additionally I’ve noticed the Frederick County patches have all dropped off. There was speculation in the past if it was full time or not and I can confirm that it was.

Anyone have any ideas ?

 

[palmerjrusa]

Hello all

This may be a long shot but I’ll ask anyway. It seems the Ft. Detrick site has lost tremendous signal strength with in the past few days. This site has always had a big foot print all over Frederick County and it comes and goes as you can see my screenshot with me being only a few miles away. I’ve restated my computer, checked my antenna and restarted Unitrunker 2.1.0.106 multiple times with the same result. Additionally I’ve noticed the Frederick County patches have all dropped off. There was speculation in the past if it was full time or not and I can confirm that it was.

Anyone have any ideas ?

Also noticed this and wondered what was going on.

You mean the Frederick County patches have been dropped permanently?

 

[Chris52]

Also noticed this and wondered what was going on.

You mean the Frederick County patches have been dropped permanently?

I don’t know if they have been dropped permanently. This has happened before but it was only one patched talkgroup from Frederick that was dropped for a few weeks but then came back alive. Perhaps they are working on the site but then what would they do for the comms ?

 

[Chris52]

Hello all

This may be a long shot but I’ll ask anyway. It seems the Ft. Detrick site has lost tremendous signal strength with in the past few days. This site has always had a big foot print all over Frederick County and it comes and goes as you can see my screenshot with me being only a few miles away. I’ve restarted my computer, checked my antenna and restarted Unitrunker 2.1.0.106 multiple times with the same result. Additionally I’ve noticed the Frederick County patches have all dropped off. There was speculation in the past if it was full time or not and I can confirm that it was.

Anyone have any ideas ?

 

[tvengr]

Anyone have any ideas?

Did you accidentally turn on the attenuator?

 

[palmerjrusa]

Did you accidentally turn on the attenuator?

It's not that, the exact same thing re the Ft. Detrick radio system and the disappearance of the patched channels has happened with me too

 

[Chris52]

Did you accidentally turn on the attenuator?

Nope, haven’t touched the scanner nor messed with any of the settings in Unitrunker. However I am seeing a lot of Joint National Capital Region stuff that’s being denied. That’s interesting.

 

[palmerjrusa]

Nope, haven’t touched the scanner nor messed with any of the settings in Unitrunker. However I am seeing a lot of Joint National Capital Region stuff that’s being denied. That’s interesting.

Not familiar with Unitrunker.

What does the above mean?

 

[Chris52]

Frederick County Fire Dispatch Patch TG 650 came back alive at 14:28

 

[Chris52]

Frederick County Fire Dispatch Patch TG 650 is gone again at 22:30

 

[palmerjrusa]

Ft. Detrick FC patched channels are back with increased signal strength.

 

[Chris52]

Ft. Detrick FC patched channels are back with increased signal strength.

Are all of them back up ?

 

[palmerjrusa]

Are all of them back up ?

Seem to be, currently recording all the traffic. Frederick City Police Dispatch #1 is definitely back.

 

[Chris52]

Very interesting behavior