LMRN General Discussion

[gary123]

Thanks, I can still hear the Beat Repeater in Exeter on a 400 MHz Channel, but I’ve lost the Vehicle Repeaters now since the radio upgrade.

Check out the 700 band freq's., there may be an Exeter one active. If not try a search in the 770 to 775 area just to see if anything is active that no one has found yet

 

[Jradioptbo]

In searching the 700 MHz band, you may come across both the Beat Repeater and Vehicle Repeater both transmitting the same thing on 2 different frequencies. It's the same talk group being repeated through the cruiser repeater and the Beat repeater which is usually on one of the area towers. Not necessarily beside the OPP detachment.

I know one case where Bell had to move the new OPP Beat Repeater from its original spot to a new location because of intermittent interference on 700 MHz band. ISED Canada set up a recorded spectrum analyzer to determine the origin of the interference.

 

[VA3ADP]

Mostly avoid listening to EMS calls these days, but in July I started to hear some of the new radios being tested particularly on Mississauga CACC, Halton EMS.

So about a month later I've noticed that pretty much all of the Halton EMS have the new radios, maybe a few in Peel but I don't get a chance to listen to Peel often. If anyone is willing maybe we can share information as the new radios come into play.

My tower is Charlton, I'd say that all of the HSD OPP have the new radios. Not sure about Caledon and 1 Central cars but I heard a 1 Alpha ERU with a new radio. I heard a few MNR radios beginning with 63. I heard a couple of MTOE cars with new radios beginning with 64.

Hamilton City EMS haven't for the most part switched, neither has Niagara CACC. Hamilton Simcoe have switched. Months ago.

The SDS100 is noisy on towers further away, hard to hear Mowat and Britannia.

Anyone wanna share info? Keep it here or DM me.

E

Yes Eric, lots of testing on Mississauga CACC. The techs are testing the Mobile and rear radios as well as the portables as well as all emergency buttons on each radio. The dispatchers are also confirming the Radio aliases also.
The RID's I've seen so far are 52xxx to 56xxx for OPP Mobiles and 57xxx for portables. For EMS I've so far seen 43xxx to 44xxx for Paramedic units and 45xxx for ERU and supervisor units.

My guess is the switch out from the XTL5000 to the APX2500s. Both EMS and OPP are getting the hardware swapped out with new black antennas too. If you look at the control head you will see it's all black now instead of the grey around the display.

All the new radios have new RIDs. these RID's will be obsolete once LMRN activates.

From the pictures I've seen in the forums, I've seen APX4500's and 6500's as well as APX6000BN's for EMS and OPP

 

[mapleradio]

Is the Charlton tower site the one attached to St.Joseph's Hospital on West 5th? The tower you can see as you drive up Queen St?

 

[bluwest]

Are they still broadcasting analog for the 700 repeater?

 

[Forts]

Yes. For both EMS and OPP.

 

[EJB]

Is the Charlton tower site the one attached to St.Joseph's Hospital on West 5th? The tower you can see as you drive up Queen St?

It's on an actual tower on Charlton. A brown and beige highrise near there east of James.

 

[VA3ADP]

I've heard some static filled transmissions around the local Mississauga Detachment also.

 

[Forts]

I'm reasonably sure the OPP are using APX8000's from what I've seen first hand. Either that or they are 6000's with multiband antennas on them for some reason.

 

[mapleradio]

It's on an actual tower on Charlton. A brown and beige highrise near there east of James.

 

[mrweather]

I saw an MTO Ford Explorer this morning on the QEW in the Hammer and while the VHF whip was the same the VR antenna was much shorter, suggesting the new PSRN gear was installed and ready to switch over.

 

[Andy_SDS100]

I'm trying to put in the latitude and longitude in for the Woodstock site in my SDS100. How would I put it in?

 

[Clats97]

I'm trying to put in the latitude and longitude in for the Woodstock site in my SDS100. How would I put it in?

Through Sentinel "profile" or "edit favorites list"

 

[VA3ADP]

I saw an MTO Ford Explorer this morning on the QEW in the Hammer and while the VHF whip was the same the VR antenna was much shorter, suggesting the new PSRN gear was installed and ready to switch over.

MTO Maintenance and crash trucks have been using the new radios for probably a year now. I am surprised they have not switched over yet. MTO Enforcement however is a different story. I am pretty sure they are still using the old radios.

 

[EJB]

MTO Maintenance and crash trucks have been using the new radios for probably a year now. I am surprised they have not switched over yet. MTO Enforcement however is a different story. I am pretty sure they are still using the old radios.

So far I counted the MTOE using 2 new radios in the 64000's .

 

[613scanner]

I noticed some entries for "His Majesty The King in Right of The Province of Ontario (GMCB)" local to me in Ottawa when doing some TAFL searches with the maps output. I had seen this previously (when it was under the Queen).
When I searched the license name on Search Canada's TAFL I got many results in multiple bands from 3.3MHz to over 6GHz. Is this just a catch all license name for the government?
I was going to setup some SDR's to record local freq and just wanted to ask for more info. I figure someone has done a dive on this before.

 

[BruceMurray]

I noticed some entries for "His Majesty The King in Right of The Province of Ontario (GMCB)" local to me in Ottawa when doing some TAFL searches with the maps output. I had seen this previously (when it was under the Queen).
When I searched the license name on Search Canada's TAFL I got many results in multiple bands from 3.3MHz to over 6GHz. Is this just a catch all license name for the government?
I was going to setup some SDR's to record local freq and just wanted to ask for more info. I figure someone has done a dive on this before.

Yes.

 

[VA3DBJ]

The new MOH repeaters coming up in Durham Region. So far 700VR03.

 

[mrweather]

Ambulances in Peel Region are still on UHF.

 

[bluwest]

Still using the old radios up near Barrie, it looks like.