Longmont on DTRS

[nathancarlson]

I have been hearing a lot of encrypted traffic today on 9521. Dispatch 9515 in the cleer though. Nothing on the conv channels at the same time as 9521 so its probably not being simolcasted.

 

[scanlist]

Probably SWAT or TF secret squirrel stuff.

I noted on the way home tonight that the WELD S.O. Admin TG is using ENC so Weld has ENC capable radios in the field. It may be possible that mutual aid with Weld can be done on ENC TG's.

 

[nathancarlson]

that makes sense. It is about time that they have easy access to Weld for MA puroposes! Longmont keeps moving further east, and with Firestone annexing areas around here makes it confusing! That is a great advantage to the DTRS move!

 

[resq197]

Within the last hour I started hearing LFD on 9522. Sounds like they're testing. Everything I heard was simulcast on VHF also.

-Brian

 

[resq197]

Also noted that as with VHF, dispatch can simulcast traffic on 9515, 9516, and 9517 - usually proceeded by some warble tones to grab everyone's attention for an urgent call.

-Brian

 

[scanlist]

Longmont PD-1 was persistent on the Thorodin site last nite 8/21 so there is some ability to hear them in the metro area. A possibility is that County cars with DTR are monitoring their TG.

There is the occasional oops where a Longmont car is monitoring GREEN and accidentally grabs the mic for the VHF radio instead of the DTR radio.

 

[BOWLERPBA]

Just a small correction for the data base-Longmont Power and Communications TG is 9531, not sanitation.
Thanks

 

[donc13]

For the last week or so, I've been hearing all Longmont traffic on both VHF and the DTRS. I'm not sure which site is "in use"....but at least lately, they've been simulcasting on both.

 

[jeffreyinberthoud]

Yes they have

 

[resq197]

For the last week or so, I've been hearing all Longmont traffic on both VHF and the DTRS. I'm not sure which site is "in use"....but at least lately, they've been simulcasting on both.

Currently, PD is on DTRS and FD is on VHF. Only the PD VHF Ch1 is being simulcast full time, my guess is that it will remain setup that way for interop with Boulder County.

Other than listening to the VHF input frequency (if your close enough) or looking at the DTRS traffic with pro96com, the easiest way to tell that PD is on DTRS is to listen to the lack of the MDC1200 ID chirps at the end of the trandmissions on VHF.

-Brian

 

[nathancarlson]

Once in a while they will simolcast fire on its dispatched TG as listed in the DB, but it all has a single radio ID, so I am guessing its just a patch from dispatch and no fire units are using DTR yet. Lots of testing on the fire tac TGs for the past couple of weeks. Also the CAD has "crashed" a few times, and this afternoon, they were having a very hard time getting tones to go out for fire on the conv. system so I am thinking they are close to the transition for fire. I have not thought to check out the antennas on the fire rigs I see at the grocery stores. I will scope it out!

 

[scanlist]

Only the PD VHF Ch1 is being simulcast full time, my guess is that it will remain setup that way for interop with Boulder County.

Maybe. At this time Code enforcement units are still VHF only and using channel 1.

 

[rckydenver]

Anyone doing anymore logging on this. So far i still got 9520 unknown but ENC, and logged a 9527 on the Pro96com program.

 

[resq197]

I left town two weeks ago with the scanner at home logging the Sunset tower, I'll get home tonight and see if anything interesting showed up.

-Brian

 

[jeffreyinberthoud]

I know fire is testing been seeing key ups and such on
9522 LGMT FD CH-1
9523 LGMT FD CH-2
9524 LGMT FD TAC1
9525 LGMT FD TAC2
just very quik chirps and no audio for the last few days and nights as well

 

[luke-1]

Anyone doing anymore logging on this. So far i still got 9520 unknown but ENC, and logged a 9527 on the Pro96com program.

24/7

Nothing new to report yet. 9520 is very active this morning, but yes it's encrypted.

 

[rckydenver]

Thanks to those replying, found this thread on the third page thought this was on the back burner. I was just going through my Pro96com program and had those two logged and still was'nt sure what it was. Jeffrey I have'nt logged those fire TG's yet. Yeah i've been seeing and hearing 9520 this am as well, but all ENC.

 

[Halfpint]

When I mentioned to SWMBO this morning that I'd gotten an e-mail about this thread she mentioned that she had recently heard what sounded like a couple Longmont FFs discussing the changeover to the new radios on my `new' radio (I have a recently acquired PSR-700 and I've been doing a bunch of battery life tests with it to try and come up with the best batteries to use in it and as part of the setup `load' I have the conventional Longmont FD channels loaded into it amongst some other assorted stuff.) She said that they sounded, in her words' a `tad bit peeved' about the `progress'. Given that she can be fairly `understated' the majority of the time *I* suspect that the `discussees?' might have been more than just a `tad bit peeved' considering what the couple discussions *I* have caught bits-n-pieces of though *I* wonder if it was all about the `changeover' and might have also had something about the equipment, too.

*My* `wish' is that they would get the assorted `issues' cleared up and *finish* the changeover one way or another! I'd just like to "Get back to the freeway, which is already in progress..."

 

[scanlist]

Boulder County related to all of this I have caught 9109 randomly with ENC each time.

FD is strictly VHF at this point. 9522 randomly showing up is most likely neighbor agencies (Mtn View) monitoring with their 700/800 radios which would explain why some are not hearing FD off of the sunset tower but towers outside of the city.

The PD has been running into "going digital" daily. With that in mind I can see why the FD is reluctant to flip right now.

Code enforcement units have all switched to DTR. No MDC bursts in recent days. How much longer the PD will keep the VHF simulcast is anyone's guess.

 

[Halfpint]

Boulder County related to all of this I have caught 9109 randomly with ENC each time.

Interestingly the *very few* hits I've gotten on that one haven't been ENC? Usually along the lines of "Does this work?"

FD is strictly VHF at this point. 9522 randomly showing up is most likely neighbor agencies (Mtn View) monitoring with their 700/800 radios which would explain why some are not hearing FD off of the sunset tower but towers outside of the city.

Since MtnVW is on the system a lot more these days, even if it sometimes sounds more like a `chat' ch, that makes sense.

The PD has been running into "going digital" daily. With that in mind I can see why the FD is reluctant to flip right now.

Yup.

Code enforcement units have all switched to DTR. No MDC bursts in recent days. How much longer the PD will keep the VHF simulcast is anyone's guess.

It's Longmont and sometimes they just don't always `make sense'... {GRIN!}