Madison County and Anderson Indiana ?

[dfoutch]

Yep: MC dispatcher just told Duck & Pipe Creek they are now dispatched by MC rural fire.

 

[dfoutch]

and other: CSXT railfans

Also Elwood Fire/EMS. And I heard an Elwood Police unit testing MC Law Dsp on 855.4625 LTR.

other: CSXT MoW have been in Anderson installing new RR protection at 53rd & Columbus (lights & gates) on the Emporia Branch. Comms on 161.055.

 

[Dispatch2323]

So will Elwood fire and Duck-Pipe Creek be on 155.0700?

 

[dfoutch]

Yes, same as all the rest. Not so sure about Alex fire/ems.

 

[W9NES]

Still Hear Elwood Fire Dispatch on 154.310 from the NorthWest Side of Indianapolis on my Bearcat 300 on my nightstand. Found Alexandra Fire Disp on 151.3625 per the RR Data Base for Madison County.

 

[Dispatch2323]

Sounds like Madison County is getting ready for the state mandate of only two dispatch centers per county. I wonder if Elwood and Alex will both close? Since County joined the Anderson Dispatch center...one could stay....I would think Alex. 155.0700 was very active last night with a serious PI near Pendleton. Pendleton FG 1 was also active.

 

[bamx2]

Alex is on the Madison County dispatch. Looks like they have moved in with county. Have heard police and fire on the main madison county channels.

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[dfoutch]

Yes but some funny things are going on. Alex tone outs on 155.07 also go out on 154.3625, 100% but further dispatch comms gets cut off. Also tone outs for Adams Twp on 155.07 gets recorded and rebroadcast on Adams Twp freq. And why does MC LE Dsp not use the Elwood PD 800 freq. Maybe they will sometime.

 

[dfoutch]

Another thing: RE Hoosier Park, 462.0125 confirmed MOTOTRBO & 463.2625 may be also. (as per dsdforwin)

 

[bamx2]

Yes but some funny things are going on. Alex tone outs on 155.07 also go out on 154.3625, 100% but further dispatch comms gets cut off. Also tone outs for Adams Twp on 155.07 gets recorded and rebroadcast on Adams Twp freq. And why does MC LE Dsp not use the Elwood PD 800 freq. Maybe they will sometime.

From what I've heard, Elwood can't make 155.070 from WTs. So they are using their old dispatch to talk to dispatch. Everything Madison county does is supposed to be simulcast, but it sounds like they can individually control it, because it not always is.

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[dfoutch]

RE Hoosier Park

462.0125 is +DMR
463.2625 is -DMR & I believe encrypted

 

[scannerfreak]

Thanks Dean. I added those and I see they are all licensed for TRBO so I changed them all.

I am working on the other changes to see what needs to be changed.

If anyone see's anything in the DB that needs to be changed, please post it here so we can get it updated.

Thanks

 

[k9ksb]

Pipe duck and elwood are dispatched on 154.3100 so they wouldn't have to change there pagers and they use a madison county repeater to talk to the 1 county dispatch we just had to update our radios so we could mutual aid in madison county

 

[bamx2]

Has anybody came up with a full list of fire tone outs? I know there was a list a while back, but it's incomplete. I don't have an audio cable to go from my scanner to computer or else I could get them.

 

[bamx2]

Safety Board doesn't discuss dispatch merger

http://m.heraldbulletin.com/thb/db_266132/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=TEToInkl

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[bamx2]

Madison County to ask for radio system proposals.

County to request radio proposals » The Herald Bulletin

 

[jtsmith82391]

Why do they want a brand new system anyways? Madison county has great coverage on the Safe-T system. Wouldn't it cost less to join that as opposed to purchasing a whole new system that will more then likely have coverage issues like county's current LTR system? Just a thought.

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[dfoutch]

And do like Delaware Co did, let IPSC use the Madison Co 800 frequencies. If Anderson joins, 5 more 800 freqs could be used. Could put a several freqs on a tower north of Alexandria or Summitville.

 

[INDY72]

If Madison Co. joins now, they would need to completely replace all their current gear. The SAFE-T is going to ASTRO-25 (P25 Phase I), so that means all the LTR radios, repeaters, consoles, HT's would need replaced with capable radios (APX'es etc...). That is an very expensive proposal. And if they did go with the SAFE-T, they would also have to upgrade the single freq sites to multi freq.. Possibly even set up an Simulcast such as Marion, and about to be Hamilton Counties have, or just kill those sites, and go with conversion of the primary site, and use the other SAFE-T sites as well.

 

[aaron315]

If Madison Co. joins now, they would need to completely replace all their current gear. The SAFE-T is going to ASTRO-25 (P25 Phase I), so that means all the LTR radios, repeaters, consoles, HT's would need replaced with capable radios (APX'es etc...). That is an very expensive proposal.

With the quantity purchasing agreements and discounts in place in connection to the Safe-T system replacement; it will never be cheaper for them to join than now.

Your assessment is spot on though. A Safe-T deployment in Madison County would certainly have to be a multi-site simulcast configuration with the combination of the existing IPSC and county frequencies used on all sites in order to obtain sufficient voice channels. I suspect Madison County would be eligible for additional licenses than those they have now, especially if Anderson goes on board.

while the up front expense is substantial the lifetime expense is much lower since Safe-T takes over the management of the sites. There are built in hardware and software refresh cycles for the sites. The county remains responsible for beyond warranty maintenance on subscriber equipment and consoles. County is responsible for programming, etc.

Any system migration is expensive. Going to Safe-T will likely never be cheaper than now. Certainly will not be cheaper in the next two decades.