Louisville Metrosafe

[BigDog-911]

They are still on Barrett as of yesterday when I was there to pick something up. Photos of the new facility should be allowed and I will work on some the next time I am down there. They are finally working on the building and have done quite a bit of demolition. It would make Ty Pennington proud. It will be a giant step up from where both agencies started from and enormous in size from where they are now.

Hope your tour / work detail went well.

New job is greatest place I have ever worked

D

 

[LouisvilleScanMan]

Yeah the dispatching is still being done out of Barrett ave and the new building is under construction/destruction but the EOC is nice, they have 6 or so 8x8 cubicles which serve as office space for the EOC workers.Each workstation has a PC and phone.

One cubicle is the ham station, at the HF station is an Icom IC-756PROIII with a desk mic and ICOM speaker plus an Ameritron 1500 watt amplifier and Ameritron tuner as well as an antenna switch and rotator control. The 2m/70cm station has an Icom IC-2720H dual band with a Yaesu WIRESII interface box and an Astron power supply. On the roof is a 30 ft tower with an HF yagi and 2 or 3 dipoles (one was knocked down during the windstorm) and the antennas are fed with RG8U or 213U coax.

The main EOC area is just down from the cubicles and is a classroom type setup with several rows of workstation tables each work station having it's own Dell PC and phone line. Up at the front of the room is a multimedia control center for the projector, TV sets and overhead speakers. off to the side is a bank of racks containing VHS, DVD, CD, CD-ROM, and data inputs that can be displayed on the projector screen as well as servers and networking equipment.

At the back of the room were several rows of monitors which were used for the LMPD METRO WATCH system. During large events or in high crime areas the LMPD will install remote cameras and can monitor them from the EOC or possibly from the mobile command center.

Well that's about all I saw, sorry I couldn't get any photos but maybe next time. Oh and they didn't need the equipment installed, they just wanted us to check the programming and make sure it was correct.The gear was installed about a year ago.

 

[Danmyster]

MetroSafe

Hey Dog,
I see you Guys are talking about the MetroSafe building. I was just down there looking around Thursday and pretty much all of the drywall is up and is being finished. Unfortunately our work area on the 4th floor isn't really moving much but it will come eventually. When I look at that place I think about how much work we have ahead of us putting that place together. I'm looking forward to getting this move behind us. You should see the MTS Server Room!! WOW is it cool, they have plenty of room in there for a lot of Servers and such. They also are already installing parts of the new Motorola Radio System in the new CEB Room, I think that will be real cool when completed.

If there is a certain part you would like to see let me know I believe I could get some pictures for you.

I'll talk at you later,

Dan

 

[LouisvilleScanMan]

What's an MTS server and what is the CEB room?

 

[BigDog-911]

Danno, I was down there talking to Mark Z not too long ago and we had to go to the "vaults" and they were taking the inner doors off the safes. Funny watching 2 smaller fellows taking these pure steel doors down. Quite entertaining.....I can't remember, is MTS server area going to be on the 1st floor or 2nd? You guys are going to have fun running cabling through that building....

You know the 4th floor is going to be last place to be finished unless you guys finish yourselves....lol...

Today we do drywall...

Later

 

[Danmyster]

MetroSafe

I can't believe that they are taking the vault doors out, such a conversation piece. I believe you are right about the 4th floor, they have started on it at least. Let me talk to the boss, we'll get them to finish our space early.

Didn't mean to confuse anyone but MTS is Metro Technology Services which is the Louisville Metro Government I.T. Department and the CEB Room is the room where all of the Motorola Radio equipment is being installed. They have a room of their own outside of MTS land, MTS didn't want Radio Tech's marching in and out of their world.

In reference to the radio project they are starting to work on the layout of the Radio System, like talkgroups and how all of the agencies radios will be laid out. That is a big part of the project that will take a while to do. I'm sorry I've got other projects that I'm working on or I'd volunteer to help.

Hey guys take it easy and I be checking out the forum from time to time.

Dan

 

[Surfer240]

Nov 28 2008
Looks as if TG#00001 is being used as a special events group.
all activity to-day is being used to coordinate the Light-up-Louisville
festivaties. traffic control points ETC:

 

[StinkyB]

Been hearing alot of testing chatter on TG#00625 today, has anyone else heard it?

 

[Surfer240]

Talk Groups..

Been hearing alot of testing chatter on TG#00625 today, has anyone else heard it?

Yep test counts and "Grid" numbers.

 

[jerk]

Yep test counts and "Grid" numbers.

I didn't listen today.
But that means they are testing the coverage to ensure it meets what the contract requires.
And that means progress!

 

[StinkyB]

That's what I figured. I could hear them at my house in Southern Harrison County Indiana!

 

[Surfer240]

I didn't listen today.
But that means they are testing the coverage to ensure it meets what the contract requires.
And that means progress!

after listening for a while, sounds like the one is driving to various locations and giving a test count with a map grid reference. and then a reply test count.
If they are using the new disital radio, I'm still not impressed with the quality of the audio of this
system, via the Pro-96.

Is Jeffersontown PD going to be included in the metrosafe system ?
sure need a common inter-dept interface from what is going down this morning..

 

[ofd8001]

From what I've been told, they are hoping to have all 12 sites up and running by the end of the year. The microwave links between the sites are going to be the delay if there is one.

I think they ordered the actual subscriber equipment (portables and mobiles) in the past couple of weeks, though I don't know how many of which got ordered.

Some of the papers I've seen show quantities for J-town PD. I don't know if that means they'll be on the new system or not.

 

[BigDog-911]

Is Jeffersontown PD going to be included in the metrosafe system ?
sure need a common inter-dept interface from what is going down this morning..

From what I heard as well they are going to the new system but not sure when yet. The inter-op this morning went well except normal radio traffic from Metro was continuing. That was the only reason the Moto-Bridge was shut down.

 

[StinkyB]

Question about the simulcasted radio traffic on the MetroSafe system, Why do they change the TG#'s of what they simulcast EX: Jeffefferson County Fire F-2 was 00011, then changed to 00009, now 00011 is now active again, probably Jefferson County Fire F-2 again. Just wondering. It does keep me on my toes.LOL

 

[ofd8001]

What I've been led to believe happens is this. From time to time the dispatchers are to set up the Motobridge for testing purposes to different agencies, such as adjacent counties. So they end up "unbridging" the 4 talkgroups (fire 1, fire 2, mutual aid and EMS 10) and then re-establish the bridge after the test is completed. Occasionally they ended up with TG 11 being X when TG 9 should have been X.

For the most part, and since the system is working well out in Okolona, I've been using the new radio and leaving my "regular" radio in the car. But I gotta be on my toes too to be sure I'm not barging into the wrong conversation.

So far I'm quite happy with what I've seen. We have been unable to replicate the problems other digital users have complained about, concerning background noise.

The thing I really like is being able to talk to EMS by simply rotating the channel selector, though I'm not doing that every day.

I really am looking forward to this time next year, when hopefully, it is all up and running.

 

[StinkyB]

I was listening thursday 12/4/08 night about 1:30am, I heard some guys talking on TG#00021, they were saying how clear the new radios were, and how pleased they were. They were driving around Louisville.

 

[Surfer240]

Talk groups heard so far on Metrosafe
00001
00003
00007
00009
00011
00013
00015
00019
00021
00037
00625

 

[Surfer240]

Add talkgroup #00005 to the list of TG,s in use..,
sounded like it was bridged to mutial aid 154.295mhz

also heard Fire 3 154.160 bridged to another TG but did not catch the number.

 

[unitcharlie]

Someone make this into a submission.... I'll add them as "Temporary" or something so when the system goes operational we can make sense of it.... send them to me today and sometime tonight or early tomorrow I'll add them.....
Do the freqs in use look correct?