KSICS Anchor Thread

[tipster67]

Yeah my handheld antenna's are picking up from beyond 30 miles. But I am in Wichita.... Very, very flat surrounding here.

 

[jereck_99]

can anyone tell me why i can hear ksics in southeast kansas?

 

[nec911]

Jackson County is in the northeast region, and to my knowledge, that's what all of the counties here received.

That is incorrect. Jackson County and two other counties made deals to swap out equipment. The actual numbers are 15 portables, nine mobiles and a PSAP radio, a TroopB 1 radio and a radio for B Evt #2.

 

[nec911]

Shawnee county attempted a motobridge patch last week with Coffey county last week for a hazmat event they were backing them up on. They were working on the 8TAC channels but were not coming across on the digital side.

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Due to KDOT not realigning 8Tac91 so there is no interference from the Lawrence and Topeka towers, motobriding here in Shawnee County can only be done on KSICS, VHF high and low, and UHF. The patch was not needed as we had good digital on portables from both sites and it ran smoothly.

 

[nec911]

The 25 mile radius isn't a hard and fast rule. Everything will depend on your location, elevation and the antenna you are using. You may be able to pick up several sites if you select the right antenna and mount it properly.

I wish the 25 mile rule was a enforcable and possible all the time! Right now in Shawnee County there are places that are less than 5 miles from the tower that don't get signal.

 

[firefive76]

That is incorrect. Jackson County and two other counties made deals to swap out equipment. The actual numbers are 15 portables, nine mobiles and a PSAP radio, a TroopB 1 radio and a radio for B Evt #2.

OLD post. Still same number of radios as the rest, just a different style...

 

[dgruver911]

Talked to someone yesterday who should know; said the rebanding of the remaining KSICS towers in central Kansas should be completed in about 3 weeks. Also found out perhaps what the mystery site 136 is that pops up from time to time on the affiliated sites list in pro96com....rather than take a site down while they reprogram, they bring in a portable trunking site; program it to the current tower freqs, and connect it to the tower antennas while they reprogram the site repeaters. Takes a lot of time, but keeps the system working in that area while they program.

 

[n0lqt]

Talked to someone yesterday who should know; said the rebanding of the remaining KSICS towers in central Kansas should be completed in about 3 weeks. Also found out perhaps what the mystery site 136 is that pops up from time to time on the affiliated sites list in pro96com....rather than take a site down while they reprogram, they bring in a portable trunking site; program it to the current tower freqs, and connect it to the tower antennas while they reprogram the site repeaters. Takes a lot of time, but keeps the system working in that area while they program.

Wondered if that could be their "maintenance machine" because some of the information associated with it kept changing whenever it would show up....

 

[scootweather]

No Talk on the system

Last 2 days I have heard absolutely NOTHING on Troop C, Troop F, Salina City Bus, and the Army National Guard trucking KSICS system. Is it all being rebanded here or something?
Scott

 

[dgruver911]

Very likely. The reprogramming techs were in Bennington a couple of days ago. .

 

[scootweather]

So when they are doing this how do I listen into them? I dunno how you guys find this mystery 136 machine.
Thanks
Scott

 

[dgruver911]

If they are rebanded, the system freqs just went down 15 MHz...if the channels were 866.xxxx, they are now 851.xxxx. Just re-enter the freqs with the new lower channels, or better yet put them both in for now, and you should start hearing them again. The entire system is supposed to be rebanded by mid-2012. And we are using Pro96com to see the system information; including the roving site 136.

 

[scootweather]

If they are rebanded, the system freqs just went down 15 MHz...if the channels were 866.xxxx, they are now 851.xxxx. Just re-enter the freqs with the new lower channels, or better yet put them both in for now, and you should start hearing them again. The entire system is supposed to be rebanded by mid-2012. And we are using Pro96com to see the system information; including the roving site 136.

Thanks the last two frequencies on the list could not go down the full 15 but I can now hear them again.
Scott

 

[dgruver911]

Thanks the last two frequencies on the list could not go down the full 15 but I can now hear them again.
Scott

Don't quite understand your post and the reference to 2 frequencies not going down 15 MHz, but anyway I just put the PSR500 on the outside antenna and fired up Pro96com...looks like Great Bend, Rush Center, Bennington and Cottonwood Falls have been rebanded. I would venture a guess that they are moving south so Fellsburg, Lyons, Partridge and Preston might be next. But that's only a guess.

 

[scootweather]

Don't quite understand your post and the reference to 2 frequencies not going down 15 MHz, but anyway I just put the PSR500 on the outside antenna and fired up Pro96com...looks like Great Bend, Rush Center, Bennington and Cottonwood Falls have been rebanded. I would venture a guess that they are moving south so Fellsburg, Lyons, Partridge and Preston might be next. But that's only a guess.

The last two frequencies got too low for it to let me subtract 15 mhz I guess. It kept reverting back up. Oh and now I keep hearing, clearly, Russell county dispatch all the way over here in Salina. Also Dickinson county dispatch/ambulance was using the interoperability channel the other night too.

 

[blueangel-eric]

L-Cat bus company in Lyon county went online on the KSICS system today. heard names i recognized waiting to be picked up!!! they're on 1526

 

[n0lqt]

Several sites in the Southcentral Kansas area have been rebanded as of today. Wichita (site 113) was the latest. If you are finding you are not getting as much traffic in your area as you were a few weeks ago, try reprogramming your scanner's trumked system frequencies down 15 MHz from the 86X.xxxxx to 85X.xxxxx. Thus 867.11750 becomes 852.11750. Any 85X.xxxxx frequency doesn't need to be reprogrammed as that frequency is the "new" rebanded frequency. Word is, that rebanding is to be completed by the end of this week.

If you have Pro96com software and have the time, you might take a snapshot of each site within range and post it to the database. This will keep it correct and up to date. As a side note on that, I did notice an undocumented feature (aka "bug") in Pro96com. If you have saved a site's info previously, the program does read channel information back in even if that channel is not actually being used anymore. I had to rename all my previous Tower0xxx.txt files to Tower0xxx.old and then start the program to save the correct data....

 

[dgruver911]

If you have Pro96com software and have the time, you might take a snapshot of each site within range and post it to the database. This will keep it correct and up to date. As a side note on that, I did notice an undocumented feature (aka "bug") in Pro96com. If you have saved a site's info previously, the program does read channel information back in even if that channel is not actually being used anymore. I had to rename all my previous Tower0xxx.txt files to Tower0xxx.old and then start the program to save the correct data....

Patience, grasshopper! LOL I have been sending the info in every couple of days as the towers are updated, just takes the moderators a bit to get the info updated. Can't imagine how busy they are! And thanks for the tip on the config files. Anyone out in western Kansas to verify whether any of the other new sites besides Ashland have been turned on?

 

[dfndr13]

Bennington Tower CC

I fired up my Pro96com and found that the Bennington tower CC listed in the database was different from what I am picked up in Pro96com.

System ID : 1B2
System Name :
WACN : BEE00
Tower Number (Decimal): 216
Tower Number (Hex) : T0210
Tower Description : (null)
Control Capabilities : Data,Voice,Registration
Call Sign(s) : WQEM916
Timestamp : Fri Dec 9 20:33:29 2011

-Tables
#Format: Table ID,Base Freq,Spacing,Input Offset,Assumed/Confirmed,BandWidth,Slots
00,851.00625,0.00625,-45.00000,"Confirmed",0.00625,1
01,762.00625,0.00625,30.00000,"Confirmed",0.00625,1

-Frequencies
#Format: Channel,Usage,Frequency(/Slot),Input Channel,Input Frequency(/Slot),Input Explicit(1/0),Hit Count
"00-0067","vi",851.42500,"00-0067",806.42500,0,0
"00-0117","c",851.73750,"00-0117",806.73750,0,0
"00-0169","av",852.06250,"00-0169",807.06250,0,0
"00-0221","v",852.38750,"00-0221",807.38750,0,0
"00-0379","v",853.37500,"00-0379",808.37500,0,0
"00-0427","v",853.67500,"00-0427",808.67500,0,0
"00-2809","",868.56250,"00-2809",823.56250,0,0

-Neighbors
#Format: TowerID,TowerIDHex,System ID,Channel,Frequency,Tower Name
215,"T020F",1b2,"00-0177",852.11250,""
217,"T0211",1b2,"00-0197",852.23750,""
218,"T0212",1b2,"00-0197",852.23750,""
221,"T0215",1b2,"00-0283",852.77500,""
223,"T0217",1b2,"00-0209",852.31250,""
224,"T0218",1b2,"00-0087",851.55000,""

 

[compubandit]

For those in SE Kansas, the Buffalo, West Mineral, Independence, Severy, and Sedan towers have all been rebanded in the past couple of days. The database has been updated except for the Buffalo tower which I will submit now.

Just heard the radio techs on talkgroup 1 say they are headed to the Virgil site and will retune the COW tonight and do the rebanding tomorrow.