has lubbock gone silent

[nd5y]

It's about the same way here. Wichita Falls has been drinking the GE coolaid since at least the late 1970s.
They went to EDACS ProVoice in 2005 then Harris P25 phase II in 2015. I saw both systems fail a few times. Each time all the trunked channels were dead and they used the national interop (8CALL/8TAC) repeaters.

(It was spelled NPSPAC, not NIPSAC. The National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee made the original 800 MHz public safety band plan in the 1970s-1980s and hasn't existed since then as far as I can tell.)

 

[Gccpicker]

Is the system back up or is it still in failsoft?

 

[Deadguy]

Is the system back up or is it still in failsoft?

It was back up early the next morning.

 

[Gccpicker]

It was back up early the next morning.

Okay it’s weird cause I’ve only heard Sheriff and nothing else.

 

[Deadguy]

Okay it’s weird cause I’ve only heard Sheriff and nothing else.

Oh wait. I left a month ago. Maybe it's happening again? Last time it was only, like, Airport Police. Load up those frequencies listed earlier in the thread and see if there is any activity on them. Keep us posted!

 

[twobytwo]

Ive been listening to EMS, SO , Pd and even water 8 with out any problems . Im using BC436HP. On my TRX1 it does not receive any thing on the Lubbock system.

 

[Gccpicker]

Okay it’s weird cause I’ve only heard Sheriff and nothing else.

I’m using a sds200 and using zip services because I didn’t have time to make a fav list. For whatever reason the Lubbock county zip I entered only opened up SO channels and the uhf ems channels. I put in a different zip and then everything came to life.

 

[Ensnared]

I just returned from Lubbock, Texas. Thank God I am back in Waco. The last time I went there, I forgot to program Lubbock PD.

Although the radio traffic was rather boring, I heard a lot of radio transmission from Lubbock PD/SO on this trip.

It was very easy to monitor since everything within 50 miles is flat as a pancake.