Kent County Simulcast

[depster00]

Simulcast sites to be enabled after existing MPSCS site transition 12-1 to 12-3. Full system to be active week of 12/7.

Agency Cutover
GRPD week of 12/7
GRFD week of 12/13
Kent County after 1/1

PowerPoint Presentation (kent911.org)

 

[scannerman5000]

A whole bunch of County Fire and Police talkgroups were recently added to the DB. How were they obtained?

 

[Forts]

Likely from someone in the know.....

 

[Ronaldski]

What I put on the Kent county MPSCS disclaimer:
" System cutover will be on December 2, 2020. The simulcast cell is scheduled to be fully operational on December 7th, with GRPD Switching over on that date. This will be followed by GRFD switchover on December 14th. Finally, all other Kent County agencies will switch over after January 1, 2021."

 

[BSchaner]

I would say also this was from somebody maybe at Kent911 or maybe a radio programmer. Also I have noticed two other talkgroups key up so far but have not heard any voice on them.

13620 RID 10417198
23169

 

[kf8lx]

According to the DB it looks like most of the Law Enforcement will be encrypted.

 

[charlesgszymanski]

QUESTIONS FROM a very amature amature when will g r switch over im getting sick of there crappy system low volumes etc i had assumed they were going digital by december and,i have a hp1 if i keep it updated on a reg basis will do you think ill be able to know when they flick the switch ,wont they be on both channels for a while ?

 

[charlesgszymanski]

According to the DB it looks like most of the Law Enforcement will be encrypted.

i thought that system because of simulcast syncronization problems when encryptid would choose to not encrypt

 

[charlesgszymanski]

i thought that system because of simulcast syncronization problems when encryptid would choose to not encrypt

i had heard that when they first came online they had problems with the systems that went encrypted due to syncing the towers so they switched to non encrypted

 

[kf8lx]

i had heard that when they first came online they had problems with the systems that went encrypted due to syncing the towers so they switched to non encrypted

What do you mean by "when they came online"? As far as I know they haven't cut over yet.

 

[charlesgszymanski]

i have educated myself just now by reading all the posts and answered some of my questions

 

[charlesgszymanski]

What do you mean by "when they came online"? As far as I know they haven't cut over yet.

o i meant when the system itself started and some of the first agencys came "online"

 

[charlesgszymanski]

o i meant when the system itself started and some of the first agencys came "online"

on the east side of the state years ago

 

[charlesgszymanski]

so let me ask you this when they switch on the 7th will they run digital and non digital chanells for a certain amount of time and will gr encrypt

 

[kf8lx]

so let me ask you this when they switch on the 7th will they run digital and non digital chanells for a certain amount of time and will gr encrypt

I have no idea on how they will actually will start. All I know is that the several of the new Kent County talk groups that have been added to the DB indicate encryption.

 

[charlesgszymanski]

I have no idea on how they will actually will start. All I know is that the several of the new Kent County talk groups that have been added to the DB indicate encryption.

where can i find that info

 

[kf8lx]

where can i find that info

If you mean how to identify encrypted talk groups, check the MODE column. Unless I'm mistaken "DE" means the talk group is encrypted.

 

[charlesgszymanski]

If you mean how to identify encrypted talk groups, check the MODE column. Unless I'm mistaken "DE" means the talk group is encrypted.

If you mean how to identify encrypted talk groups, check the MODE column. Unless I'm mistaken "DE" means the talk group is encrypted.

yea i finally found it its been awhile since i looked it up before and had to think about it

 

[charlesgszymanski]

what i was refering to earlier is that when they decided to go statewide digital years ago and they started the instalation i dont know what county was first but they had a problem with the agencys that chose to encrypt there broadcast and they couldn't get all the towers timing to sync so they were all broadcasting at the same time but the agencys that didnt encrypt had no problems so rather then spending more money to fix the prob they chiose to not encrypt and that was there solution and in the article i read it said most agencies more than likely will not choose to encrypt due to that problem even though they are approved to encrypt so IDK we will see

 

[charlesgszymanski]

yea i finally found it its been awhile since i looked it up before and had to think about it

and the lower case e means partial encription and who knows what that means ?