Kerrville/Kerr County on LCRA

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Sounds simple, The Sheriff in Kendall County installed VHF radios in the patrol cars for interop with surrounding counties that still used VHF, one county did not want to allow permission or give them the info to be programmed into those radios. If ego's and "mine, mine, mine" could be removed from the system admins imagine what could be accomplished...
Sounds like Bandera….it’s strange because this stuff never used to be an issue. If it helped to relay timely information and not go through two layers of dispatchers, units used to always hop on the neighbor’s channel if it was needed. Nobody ever got their feathers ruffled as long as it wasn’t frivolous banter. Nowadays you see these battles between SAPD and Bexar SO and others. I honestly think we are less interoperable than we were before 911 because of all the separate system cores, “mine” mentalities, encryption, and differing radio bands being used. It should probably be a state mandate to trim down to VHF rural and 700/800 urban, with no encryption on primary dispatch and multi agency tactical, but then you are using government to fix government which never works
 

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"but then you are using government to fix government which never works"

God what an oxymoron that is!!! :)
 

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Sounds simple, The Sheriff in Kendall County installed VHF radios in the patrol cars for interop with surrounding counties that still used VHF, one county did not want to allow permission or give them the info to be programmed into those radios. If ego's and "mine, mine, mine" could be removed from the system admins imagine what could be accomplished...
Probably Bandera county. Since they went encrypted, I heard they are very tight with their keys. It's their system, so they can let whoever they want on it. Most smaller and rural counties don't have problems with neighbors having their dispatch channels. Usually, bad blood between higher-ups of the two counties, like the county sheriffs or commissioners. One of those if we need their help, we will all go to one of the many interop channels mentality. Even though in a hectic chase, an officer needs help, firefight, etc...Things move very fast, and you can't always toggle through multiple banks on a radio.
 

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This unencrypted Transmission shows to have been fixed, Any updates on your side?
I heard their dispatcher this morning but added the group 10001 to my permanent lockouts in my favorites list for Kendall Co. I would have to open it up and listen. Calls shows it last appearing at 9:15 am this morning but it may have just disappeared from the tower it was ingested on.
 

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Sounds simple, The Sheriff in Kendall County installed VHF radios in the patrol cars for interop with surrounding counties that still used VHF, one county did not want to allow permission or give them the info to be programmed into those radios. If ego's and "mine, mine, mine" could be removed from the system admins imagine what could be accomplished...

This behavior reminds me of Gatesville. F/EMS and PD got into a spat, now GVPD is encrypted. Jackasses.
 

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I was listening this evening with search on, TG 10001 appeared several times with no audio, guess E is back on
 

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Big electrical storm last night sure did some damage.
The entire LCRA system is down for Kerrville and Kerr County. Cannot find any news about it. The 155MHz channels are active with the SO and EMS. Also the NOAA weather radio is down on 162.450.

I sure wish that they would turn off the encryption as no one wants the secret police.
 

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Correction...the LCRA system is not down after the storm. Kerrville has changed frequencies and is on the Smokey Mountain tower.
I read that Kerr is also adding a tower site on the East side so more changes are coming.

Trunk
769.793750
770.106250
770.568750
771.256250
771.831250
772.631250
799.793750
Mobile
800.106250
800.568750
801.256250
801.831250
802.631250
 

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Correction...the LCRA system is not down after the storm. Kerrville has changed frequencies and is on the Smokey Mountain tower.
I read that Kerr is also adding a tower site on the East side so more changes are coming.

Trunk
769.793750
770.106250
770.568750
771.256250
771.831250
772.631250
Ok I see their new license from March for that site. WRWP591 for the city of Kerrville. Good find. Can you tell if it has assumed site 136.36
 

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hey @rattlerbb01.. I have switched out the Freqs for the site in question.. evaluated the analyze function on my scanner and found this.... site number has not changed and did assumed number 036
 

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hey @rattlerbb01.. I have switched out the Freqs for the site in question.. evaluated the analyze function on my scanner and found this.... site number has not changed and did assumed number 036
Good deal, I’ll get it updated tonight, if any of you have time please submit the update
 

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Sounds simple, The Sheriff in Kendall County installed VHF radios in the patrol cars for interop with surrounding counties that still used VHF, one county did not want to allow permission or give them the info to be programmed into those radios. If ego's and "mine, mine, mine" could be removed from the system admins imagine what could be accomplished...
It reminds me of the childish behavior between EMS & Gatesville PD. Reportedly, there was some bad blood between the two. So, not only is GVPD encrypted, EMS cannot hear them either. That is what a fairly reliable source told me. This happened quite a few years ago.
 
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