Was you able to get the radio ID?
Can I get a channel?
Montgomery & Prince George's Cells are now showing up as peers to Anne Arundel on Unitrunker.
Chris52
Member
So could we potentially hear some traffic from the MoCo or PG sites due to them being online ?
I just drove from Gaithersburg to Annapolis around 10PM and did not see the sites actually on the air - I check my programming to see if they were enabled.
Ok I am picking up off the Montgomery site the Peers are
PG
Gambrills mt ASR
Mt.Airy ASR
Mar Lu Ridge ASR
Howard
Waste Treatment ASR
Off the PG site Peers are
Charles
Howard
Calvert
North Simulcast
Waste Treatment ASR
Tracys Landing ASR
Montgomery Simulcast.
I am 1 airmile from the MD 1st tower at Rt 97 and Rt 200.
Time Now 1247
PG
Gambrills mt ASR
Mt.Airy ASR
Mar Lu Ridge ASR
Howard
Waste Treatment ASR
Off the PG site Peers are
Charles
Howard
Calvert
North Simulcast
Waste Treatment ASR
Tracys Landing ASR
Montgomery Simulcast.
I am 1 airmile from the MD 1st tower at Rt 97 and Rt 200.
Time Now 1247
Radio ID 2118605/2118166/2159500/2118607 Denied
Nothing but the tower Call letters are showing up on the PG site
PG primary CC 773.49375
Radio ID 2119884 SHA D3 Target 7288 which might be on the montgomery county system GRANTED. Ok I doubled checked and that is on the MD 1st system TG not the Montgomery County System. My bad.
ssinglet
Member
had a lot of simulated traffic calls on TG 8565 FIRST Admin 5 from the Radio Techs yesterday on the Charles County site started about 1PM and went up to 7PM
Interesting Radio ID 2117641 says under Target Label First Responders Interoperable Radio System Team(FIRST) and it is denied
Natural Resources Police area 7 radio ID7521 Granted on the montgomery first tower frequency 773.73125
That wasn’t a Grant - it was an Add. There is a patch between tg 7521 and Area 7 tg 7516
Ok I didnt know about the patch and I should have looked my bad
Better coverage along I-495 in the White Oak area from the Montgomery simulcast site - not sure if this issue was addressed earlier. PG simulcast is good until the Annapolis Waterworks along 450. The only channel grants that I saw were on the PG simulcast from FIRST techs - enc of course. The Area 8 -> Area 7 patch is seen on both Montgomery and PG sites. So far it seems that Charles, Montgomery and PG sites are spitting out RF. The last schedule had Zone 5 going live (with operational traffic) in April, so I expect some more GOS testing on the network side; RF coverage testing was completed earlier in the deployment process.
According to Budget testimony....
-The last of five geographical implementation phases, which includes Montgomery, Prince George’s, Calvert, Charles and St Mary’s Counties, is scheduled to go-live for operational users in April of this year, completing the scope of the original MD FiRST project.
-In 2022, new sites were added at Taylorsville and Sykesville in Carroll County, as well as at the Maryland State Police Barracks in LaVale (Allegany County).
-New sites in Davidsonville (Anne Arundel County), Greenbrier State Park (Washington County) and Swallow Falls (Garrett County) are in progress and scheduled to go live in 2023.
-Our fiscal year 2024 capital budget request is for $18,440,000. This funding will support four major efforts: new radio sites, fiber, geographically diverse control sites, and in-building amplifiers.
-The new sites are planned for the following locations: - Cumberland (Allegany County) - Patapsco State Park (Howard County) - Queenstown (Queen Anne’s County) - Elmer School Road (Montgomery County) The Patapsco and Queenstown sites are being built in partnership with the local county jurisdictions.
-Also introduced in fiscal year 2024, is funding to support the addition of Geographically Diverse Control Sites to the network. The MD FiRST system is comprised of 22 cells, each with a single primary site that is responsible for controlling and managing information for that specific cell, while also connecting that cell to the rest of the network. Adding a second and geographically located prime/control site within each cell provides redundancy in the event the primary controlling site is disabled due to planned or unplanned events including power and backhaul outages, reducing the risk of a large-scale radio coverage outage directly impacting operational users. The budget request supports funding one geographically diverse control site to be added each year.
-The last of five geographical implementation phases, which includes Montgomery, Prince George’s, Calvert, Charles and St Mary’s Counties, is scheduled to go-live for operational users in April of this year, completing the scope of the original MD FiRST project.
-In 2022, new sites were added at Taylorsville and Sykesville in Carroll County, as well as at the Maryland State Police Barracks in LaVale (Allegany County).
-New sites in Davidsonville (Anne Arundel County), Greenbrier State Park (Washington County) and Swallow Falls (Garrett County) are in progress and scheduled to go live in 2023.
-Our fiscal year 2024 capital budget request is for $18,440,000. This funding will support four major efforts: new radio sites, fiber, geographically diverse control sites, and in-building amplifiers.
-The new sites are planned for the following locations: - Cumberland (Allegany County) - Patapsco State Park (Howard County) - Queenstown (Queen Anne’s County) - Elmer School Road (Montgomery County) The Patapsco and Queenstown sites are being built in partnership with the local county jurisdictions.
-Also introduced in fiscal year 2024, is funding to support the addition of Geographically Diverse Control Sites to the network. The MD FiRST system is comprised of 22 cells, each with a single primary site that is responsible for controlling and managing information for that specific cell, while also connecting that cell to the rest of the network. Adding a second and geographically located prime/control site within each cell provides redundancy in the event the primary controlling site is disabled due to planned or unplanned events including power and backhaul outages, reducing the risk of a large-scale radio coverage outage directly impacting operational users. The budget request supports funding one geographically diverse control site to be added each year.
