GATRRS Site 1 traffic now on site 7

[Whospoonbill]

I listen to the fire department and on the way to the gas station I heard that they said on fire department in Austin to monitor these radios there gonna be maintenance on the towers I’m worried to think there putting in encryption rn.

 

[Ensnared]

I went to Austin several days ago. I programmed the system using Simulcast 7. When I arrived in Austin, all I heard George DT, David & Baker.

 

[Ensnared]

I returned to Austin yesterday. There seemed to be more activity present. This time, I heard several talk groups other than dispatch: tactical talk and traffic, 2402, 2429, 2407; DPS 3522; interop 5316; TCSO roam, 2405. I also heard communications from Florence; Smithville, Bastrop PD; and several others. I was traveling south on the toll road to Caesar Chavez and back to Waco.

 

[Project25_MASTR]

Sounds like the city is working on combining both County Wide (Simulcast 1) and E620 (Simulcast 2) and merging the IR sites into one large simulcast system. In that configuration, Quantar's and PSC9600's actually would not be supported. This was the eventual plan in 2018...but my understanding is some walls were hit with the merger of Permian Basin and funding in Middle Rio Grande.

 

[Whospoonbill]

What is interop

 

[Whospoonbill]

Also do you think there merging the towers together to do encryption

 

[Whospoonbill]

Also if this is the box you where talking about psc9600 wouldn’t it shut down the towers if the power goes out

 

[Whospoonbill]

Also why does it feel like I’m missing transmission on simulcast 2 on Austin fire department they just said engine 211 on scene of a vehicle accident and I didn’t hear it come in on the locution channel I have it organize on the sds100 I have fire com channel first than the fire tac 2 channels than the 2 locution than junk channels like scheduling and stuff like that

 

[Whospoonbill]

Do I need to put locution in first or does it not matter how I put the channel organized in

 

[Whospoonbill]

Nvm fire alarm activation in esd 12 box mn7 at address 1203 on fire com east

 

[Project25_MASTR]

Also if this is the box you where talking about psc9600 wouldn’t it shut down the towers if the power goes out

All of the sites have redundant power sources. All of the sites have an active controller and one in hot standby. If both controllers were to fail for whatever reason, the site would go into failsoft....and would remain in failsoft until the controllers are repaired/replaced or power is lost at the site entirely.

 

[Whospoonbill]

What is interop

 

[Whospoonbill]

is it normal for my sds100 to automatically program band plan for simulcast 7 it didn’t do it for Pflugerville site it left it blank but the simulcast site has band plan i manual program simulcast 1 in when it was still working know the sds100 is programming band plan for simulcast 7 automatically

 

[Ensnared]

Just for giggles, I am going to program all sites in Travis county until folks figure this out. I will see what fish I catch.

 

[Whospoonbill]

What about the band plan on the sds100 it’s automatically putting it in is it supposed to do that cause it didn’t do it with the Pflugerville site I keep deleting the plans in my favorite lists especially the police one

 

[hiegtx]

What about the band plan on the sds100 it’s automatically putting it in is it supposed to do that cause it didn’t do it with the Pflugerville site I keep deleting the plans in my favorite lists especially the police one

You're spinning your wheels in the sand by deleting band plans from GATRRS sites. When the scanner connects to a site where a band plan is provided, it will automatically add that information to the site details.

For a site using 800MHz frequencies, if all of the site frequencies have a 5 in the fourth decimal place, like 851.1375) no band plan is needed. However, if there are frequencies under 854MHz, that have a zero (0) in the fourth slot, then a band plan is required. I believe that, when this discussion about 'Pflugerville' (Site 7) first started, there were only a few frequencies used, all of them with a 5 in that fourth slot. So, no band plan was needed. Now, however, there are a number of frequencies that are listed as 3 decimal places, like 853.325, which means that the fourth slot would be a zero ( 853.3250), so a band plan is required, This is similar with what was required when analog trunked systems started to undergo the Rebanding process. (GATRRS is a P25 system, so rebanding does not apply, but the reasoning on why a band plan might be needed is still in place, Read the linked article for a lengthier explanation.)

 

[Whospoonbill]

You're spinning your wheels in the sand by deleting band plans from GATRRS sites. When the scanner connects to a site where a band plan is provided, it will automatically add that information to the site details.

For a site using 800MHz frequencies, if all of the site frequencies have a 5 in the fourth decimal place, like 851.1375) no band plan is needed. However, if there are frequencies under 854MHz, that have a zero (0) in the fourth slot, then a band plan is required. I believe that, when this discussion about 'Pflugerville' (Site 7) first started, there were only a few frequencies used, all of them with a 5 in that fourth slot. So, no band plan was needed. Now, however, there are a number of frequencies that are listed as 3 decimal places, like 853.325, which means that the fourth slot would be a zero ( 853.3250), so a band plan is required, This is similar with what was required when analog trunked systems started to undergo the Rebanding process. (GATRRS is a P25 system, so rebanding does not apply, but the reasoning on why a band plan might be needed is still in place, Read the linked article for a lengthier explanation.)

So what can happen if I keep deleting it miss traffic, it won’t connect to the site would I half to reprogrammed The band plan what

 

[Whospoonbill]

I name my favorite list zones and channels about I have zone 1 is fire zone 2 is ems zone 2 is pd

 

[hiegtx]

So what can happen if I keep deleting it miss traffic, it won’t connect to the site would I half to reprogrammed The band plan what

If you've deleted it from your scanner, or write programming to the scanner, without the band plan in your programming file, what will happen is that once the scanner gets to that site while scanning, it will fill in any band plan values needed. All you're accomplishing by deleting the band info is wasting your time. It will be right back in there as soon as the scanner hits that system.

 

[Whospoonbill]

So I won’t miss any transmission