GATRRS Site 1 traffic now on site 7

[KTR722]

Not new news per se, but the CTECC Travis County radio guys were doing testing of the voter repeaters today on TGID 16290 and ran through the current list of towers on the travis county simulcast system which were identified as folows:

DECKER
BARTON HILL
FOUR POINTS
BUTLER
UT PMA
UT MRC
DAVIS
LIME CREEK
BARTON CREEK
LAKEWAY
COLLIER
HONEYCOMB
BELL SPRINGS
SINGLETON BEND
CTECC

 

[Whospoonbill]

i did not know all firecom are patched

 

[Wes]

All I know is that Simulcast 7 sounds incredible on the SDS 100 at my house in the hills near 360 and 183. Signal is strong and clear. It is absolutely comparable to a commercial radio.

 

[rattlerbb01]

So.....are we pretty sure this is the only Travis County simulcast going forward? If so, I think we can drop the "7" going forward and rename it "Austin Simulcast" or "Travis Simulcast" or something of that nature.

 

[Whospoonbill]

What about encryption

 

[Ensnared]

During my recent visit to Travis County I did not see the dreaded "ENC" on my SDS 100 screen.

 

[Whospoonbill]

I have a question why does tcso dispatch say this is a phase 2 location

 

[Wes]

I have a question why does tcso dispatch say this is a phase 2 location

Phase 2 as in the technology used to locate a cellular call to 911

 

[clementrw]

It seems like Sites 1 and 7 are now up.

 

[W5ATX]

It seems like Sites 1 and 7 are now up.

What control channel frequency are you seeing for Simulcast1 / Site 1? Most if not all of the old CC's are not transmitting data but are carrying voice traffic still. The old Sim1 CC of 851.2875 is still silent in SW Austin.

 

[clementrw]

I apologize, my bust. Somehow I had the Simulcast 7 CC in my Simulcast 1 list. After a clean-up, I am only hearing Simulcast 7 again.