GATRRS Greater Austin/Travis Regional Radio System changes

[kd5dga]

I have not monitored the GATRRS system in a while I notice that several of the VHF systems are no longer there. Lampasas, Burnet, Bertram, Kingsland. I not longer see their VHF Control channels anymore. What is going on?

 

[KevinC]

A lot of the Western Region sites changed frequencies several years ago.

I believe the RR database is up to date...

Greater Austin/Travis Regional Radio System (GATRRS) Trunking System, Austin, Texas

Greater Austin/Travis Regional Radio System (GATRRS) Trunking System Profile

www.radioreference.com

 

[kd5dga]

The only active Control channel in the VHF band I see is the one for Watson at 152.5175 mhz. I see no other VHF control channels anymore.

 

[rbarker]

I'm hearing control channels: 155.9025 (Singleton Bend), 151.1075 (Marble Falls)

1 (1)	069 (45)	Singleton Bend	Burnet	155.790	155.8425a	155.9025c
1 (1)	070 (46)	Watson	Burnet	152.5175c	152.5925a
1 (1)	071 (47)	Burnet	Burnet	152.1725c	152.5025a	152.6225a	152.7425a
1 (1)	072 (48)	Bertram	Burnet	152.180c	152.6375a	152.8175c
1 (1)	073 (49)	Kingsland	Burnet	152.5325a	152.6075	152.7275	152.7575c	155.430
1 (1)	074 (4A)	Marble Falls	Burnet	151.1075c	151.4525a	154.0475	155.5875
1 (1)	075 (4B)	Llano North	Llano	152.1125c	152.5775	152.7125a
1 (1)	076 (4C)	Llano South	Llano	152.2025a	152.6825	152.8025c
1 (1)	077 (4D)	Round Mountain	Blanco	152.1875c	152.6525a	152.7725a
1 (1)	078 (4E)	Johnson City	Blanco	152.210c	152.615	152.690	152.6975	152.7875a
1 (1)	079 (4F)	Blanco	Blanco	152.510	152.5475	152.600	152.6375a	152.810c

 

[KevinC]

The week before last I came down 281 through Lampasas then 183 into Austin and heard the Lampasas, Bertram, Watson and Singleton Bend sites.

 

[Unitrunker2]

The Wilco site is advertising site 7 as a peer. I don't see this in the RR DB.



This is reported as inactive, valid, and failed.

The control channel looks to be stolen from Simulcast 2.

 

[rbarker]

I'm not sure how the 851.1375 is being displayed, If you manually put that in or the system did. 851.1375 used to be a control channel for Simulcast 2. But now it's listed in the database as a voice channel for Simulcast 1. The database lists 857.9625 as the primary control channel for Williamson County system and I just checked it and it's working. (buzz noise)

If the chart on the screen is generated by the data, then I wonder why they are STILL listing a Simulcast 2 site.

 

[Unitrunker2]

Everything pasted above is from the Wilco control channel. The Wilco control channel is advertising this new site 7 has having 851.1375 as it's control channel. A few days ago I saw all 25 channels in Simulcast 1 in use. Today I only see 19 channels active.

I should point out ... Simulcast 1 is also reporting Site 7 as a new peer.

 

[Unitrunker2]

Site 7 is now active on 851.1375 (channel stolen from old simulcast site 2).

 

[Unitrunker2]

If the chart on the screen is generated by the data, then I wonder why they are STILL listing a Simulcast 2 site.

Notice the "Last" column. That site hasn't been seen in a long while.

 

[rbarker]

Where are you hearing this from? I'm in Lago Vista and I don't hear anything. Do we have any idea on the location for this tower? If it's a fill in site?

 

[Unitrunker2]

I'll send out a drone.

 

[Unitrunker2]

The drone says Pflugerville. Covers a good chunk of Round Rock and Manor and usable from the Domain.

There are no users yet. It's actually misconfigured. It advertises 851.2875 as an alternate control channel (currently active Simulcast site 1). That ain't gonna work. Clearly it's a work in progress.

 

[rattlerbb01]

I processed a recent submission that an Austin area site was now advertising Phase II capability and showing 2 slots in the band plan. On my way back home from the field tonight, I observed that both sites 17 and 27, Barksdale and Leakey, in Real County were showing 2 slots in the 700 mhz band plan, and Unitrunker was advertising that they had P2 access for both, but both sites are VHF and very quiet since there is barely anyone on duty there at night. The Barksdale site is in a very remote area and though I could hear Uvalde, Leakey, Bracketville, Barksdale and Rocksprings from the top of the hills on RM 337, Barksdale does not show any peers. Del Rio DPS dispatch was active on the site.

 

[KevinC]

I processed a recent submission that an Austin area site was now advertising Phase II capability and showing 2 slots in the band plan. On my way back home from the field tonight, I observed that both sites 17 and 27, Barksdale and Leakey, in Real County were showing 2 slots in the 700 mhz band plan, and Unitrunker was advertising that they had P2 access for both, but both sites are VHF and very quiet since there is barely anyone on duty there at night. The Barksdale site is in a very remote area and though I could hear Uvalde, Leakey, Bracketville, Barksdale and Rocksprings from the top of the hills on RM 337, Barksdale does not show any peers. Del Rio DPS dispatch was active on the site.

The bandplan is a system-wide parameter, so all sites will broadcast the same exact elements when wide-area (Site Trunking may be different depending on how the site controllers were programmed).