LeeBarnes
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On a side note, I've been wondering this for some time: What does "DISC" mean in the above? I've seen it on some of the "Kansas, State of " listings but not all.
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On a side note, I've been wondering this for some time: What does "DISC" mean in the above? I've seen it on some of the "Kansas, State of " listings but not all.
I'm thinking discontinued, maybe.
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D.I.S.C=Division of Information Systems and Communications. That's what it was known as years ago (thus the reason it's labeled as such on the FCC license record). I believe they now go by Kansas Office of Emergency Communications.
No, they are not the same. KOEC is under the Adjutant General's Office and is focused on training and providing information on interoperable communications as well as the new public safety broadband initiative. DISC is now called the Office of Information Technology Services (OITS), they are the IT branch for the state and work very closely with KBI on hardware and firewall issues for access to the Criminal Justice computer network. Why they are also in charge of the FCC licenses for the state is curious to me. You would think it would be KDOT since they maintain and oversee the radio systems.
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Apparently I was given some incorrect information about the KOEC then. I stand corrected. DISC/OTIS has always been the coordination point for frequencies/FCC licenses (it was even that way when I was employed by the State 14 years ago--well before the implementation of KSICS). One would think KDOT handles such things, but the State has never operated logically.
joeuser
The Wretched
Learn so much here - thanks for this info
To update, I did snag some more traffic from the unknown Talkgroup 602 yesterday, but I was too slow to snag any audio. I'm getting more confident that it is (I believe) Sumner County that has that talkgroup. Whoever it was was here in Hutchinson yesterday but I didn't catch where in Hutchinson they were at.
Interesting. I guessing the NAC are set on a regional and system basis. I had a PSR-800 on the control channel IF out and was watching the scrolling command line. Looking at the local MARRS I am getting quite a few different ones on the same towers.
joeuser
The Wretched
Tried Unitrunker & DSD+?
I tried it a while ago with DSD (I think) and wasn't able to get the settings correct to follow traffic. I was trying to monitor MARRS.. Lately, I've been searching around for local DMR and NXDN. I just happened to search the 800's and noticed it. I'll have to give Unitrunker another go some time soon.
joeuser
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I use it for my local KSICS tower so I might be able to help. Love the detail it provides.
Anyone:
Has the latest edition of DSD+ brought anything new to the table for monitoring our P25p1 KSICS?
rcanon321
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There are 84 sites available on Ksics. How many should be used for Miami & Johnson County area? If you select all of them they tell you, you have used over 32 trunk frequencies. Should I use as many as allowed or as few as I can? Right now I'm using Olathe, Paola, Parker sometimes I'll add Lawrence & Douglas county.
There are 84 sites available on Ksics. How many should be used for Miami & Johnson County area? If you select all of them they tell you, you have used over 32 trunk frequencies. Should I use as many as allowed or as few as I can? Right now I'm using Olathe, Paola, Parker sometimes I'll add Lawrence & Douglas county.
KSquelch
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You use the Miami and Johnson county sites on KSICS
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KSquelch
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http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?siteId=11338
http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?siteId=9022
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joeuser
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Only a handful of the frequencies are unique. So quite a few of these frequencies are used on many different towers, just not close to one another. I meant to make a list of all the frequencies so that one could have them for all the towers without the redundancy. Someday!
on my GRE 500 all you need to enter are the control freq primary and secondary to scan the ksics system you don't to enter all of the freqs
daves1243
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Probably depends on your scanner and what you want to hear. If you want to hear activity in Johnson and Miami counties only, then on my HP536 I would enter the frequencies associated with towers located in those counties that are within range. No sense in scanning frequencies on towers that are out of range, though obviously that can change from day to day depending on conditions.
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