MARCS-IP ("New MARCS") Site and Talkgroup Discussion
Hi Jerry,
Yes there is.
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Although I've never heard anything on it here in East Ohio yet.
Mike
Thank you very much on the helpdesk channel. I thought it would be different from the old marcs system.
Jerry
tg 54832 60xxxxx UID Heard on S. Zanesville site
Pretty certain - Muskingum SO Detectives
Pretty certain - Muskingum SO Detectives
Just submitted to the DB for Franklin County:
The Ohio State University CABS buses are using TG 63530. Unsure of the paratransit, charter, or surpervisor talkgroups so far.
The Ohio State University CABS buses are using TG 63530. Unsure of the paratransit, charter, or surpervisor talkgroups so far.
Hi,
Please provide:
Zone:
Site ID:
Current Control Channel:
When you're parked on the control channel, the PRO-197 will display important information about the trunked system site you are monitoring. Please provide all of the details.
Thanks
Mike
I was told by a birdie that Five Points was online Bu the only way we'll know is if somebody monitors it directly or finds it listed as a peer of a neighboring site and reports the information to us.
Mike
Mike
I don't see Five Points as a peer to either Zanesville or Duncan Falls.
- for Marcs Duncan Falls will show Jct. City as a peer-
No idea if not up or just not associating.
- for Marcs Duncan Falls will show Jct. City as a peer-
No idea if not up or just not associating.
I decided to fire up Unitrunker for a bit this weekend. As luck would have it, I found a new talkgroup that I can't ID.
ID 52124 popped up on the Akron site. Only one radio ID, and it is mostly seen on 52020 (ODNR Enformentment NE Calling).
My first guess is this is an ODNR talkgroup. I did notice this was an unencrypted transmission.
ID 52124 popped up on the Akron site. Only one radio ID, and it is mostly seen on 52020 (ODNR Enformentment NE Calling).
My first guess is this is an ODNR talkgroup. I did notice this was an unencrypted transmission.
HWG
Member
Still learning about the system. Haven't seen "peer of a neighboring site" before. What does that actually mean? Where is that information listed?
You've got to be running some sort of trunking program to see that information, a program like Pro96Com or Unitrunker.
On a networked trunked system, peers = neighbors = neighboring sites from the one you are monitoring.
Let's say if you were part of an agency that is on MARCS and you have a MARCS radio, as you travel around you use different tower sites for communications. If are in Columbiana Co, your radio may have determined [based upon RSSI and whatever else] that the best [current] site for you is the Lisbon site, and so your radio will communicate with that site. The Lisbon site's control channel broadcasts [on the control channel] a list of neighboring sites and their respective channel number (LCN) of the neighbor sites' control channels. That is for your benefit, because if you can no longer reliably communicate with the Lisbon tower because of your location, your radio knows to check the control channel of each of the neighboring sites to determine which site your radio should communicate with at that point.
P25 trunked system neighbor sites are "peers". I'm not a trunking expert. I don't know if all types of networked trunked systems refer to neighboring sites as peers or neighbors. I do know that Unitrunker calls neighboring sites "Neighbors" whereas Pro96Com calls neighboring sites "Peers".
So I use the two terms interchangeably, for better or worse, right or wrong.
Mike
Versions may be different , but for me Unitrunker calls it peers amd ProComm calls it adjacent sites - which may make more sense than any.
Nothing in Perry via S Zanesville or Duncan Falls as of NOW.
Nothing in Perry via S Zanesville or Duncan Falls as of NOW.
You're right. Not sure what I was thinking. UT lists them as "Peers" and Pro96Com lists them as "Adjacent Sites'. Some other trunking program I've used probably calls them Neighbors.
I''m kind of surprised that Five Points didn't show up as a neighbor on either of those sites, but then again it is the farther away of the two, with New Lex being closer. When the whole system is online, I suspect New Lex will show as a neighbor of S Zanesville and Duncan Falls, and that Five Points never will.
Mike
TG: 54769
TG: 54769
Heard dispatch [unknown whose] telling a unit about a burglar alarm going off somewhere down in Coolville.
So it's probably an Athens Co talkgroup, perhaps a specific PD talkgroup or a county law talkgroup.
mike
TG: 54769
Heard dispatch [unknown whose] telling a unit about a burglar alarm going off somewhere down in Coolville.
So it's probably an Athens Co talkgroup, perhaps a specific PD talkgroup or a county law talkgroup.
mike
Most likely the Athens County Sheriffs Office. They are now fully operational on the MARCS IP system. Dispatch would be the Athens County 911 Center. Coolville PD is a one man part-time operation that still operates on 151.19 MHz.
Rick, W8UU
Rick, W8UU
Thanks, Rick. Hopefully somebody will be able to confirm this. If Bucko is around, I know he listens to the WashCo simulcast, and Im betting that he'd probably be hearing that talkgroup from time to time from there. Maybe he'll be able to pin it down.
I guess theoretically you might be able to as well. I don't know what you monitor.
Mike
grumpy_hermit
Member
41532, Putnam County
February 3 at around 9-9:30 am: testing on 41532 through the Middle Point And Glandorf sites. It was between Putnam SO and Ottoville High School.
EDIT: Also testing between Ft. Jennings school and SO. The SO asked if they got the alarm/alert tone. Maybe some type of lockdown alarm from the SO to the schools?
But wait, there's more! On TG 59068, heard "radio service to Putnam EMA" advising the EMA that if they received an alert from Ottoville, it wasn't done by radio service and they might want to check it out with the school.
February 3 at around 9-9:30 am: testing on 41532 through the Middle Point And Glandorf sites. It was between Putnam SO and Ottoville High School.
EDIT: Also testing between Ft. Jennings school and SO. The SO asked if they got the alarm/alert tone. Maybe some type of lockdown alarm from the SO to the schools?
But wait, there's more! On TG 59068, heard "radio service to Putnam EMA" advising the EMA that if they received an alert from Ottoville, it wasn't done by radio service and they might want to check it out with the school.
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