Gaston county (GEMS) dispatch (TG:18501) is now displaying P2 transmissions. Could this mean more changes to P2?
Gaston Viper
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Right now NC has both P25 phase 1 and 2 radios. From a scanner monitors perspective, that's what you are seeing. Nothing more really. When the powers to be resolve any issues, it will all be phase 2.
Chris0516
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According to this: 100% VIPER, Gastonia PD & FD on UASI Site 10, they use VIPER only.
This: VIPER has today's date(5/13/2026) on it, and. It says VIPER is 100% P2.
VIPER sites have been 100 percent upgraded to phase 2, this was completely done as of July of last year. However radios using phase 1 are still using the network along with phase 2 radios. I am watching the control channel of my closest VIPER site as I type this and seeing phase 1 radio transmissions passing through.
Every talkgroup should be set to dynamic dual mode unless it is new as of 7/1/25 (TDMA only), an agency has requested their channels to be locked to TDMA only, or a programming error has temporarily forced talkgroups to be forced back to FDMA until the bandplan issues are updated. If a dynamic talkgroup has only TDMA capable radios on it, it will switch to Phase II. If a FDMA only radio affiliates, it knocks the talkgroup back down to Phase I. I should hope that more and more talkgroups will start remaining TDMA as time goes on and radios are updated.
