Well I am over here in Aspen Hill area of Silver Spring, and on my xg100p I am only getting 1 bar signal on the PG site and I am cross checking it with my Unitrunker on both the PG site and Montomery site double checking them to when I miss calls and so forth. It seems I am missing a few calls on the PG Site from here as I am somewhat down in a hole on a 2nd story apartment facing to the east. How ever since I am only 1 air mile from the site at Rt200 and Rt 97 aka Georgia Ave I have no trouble receiving when I switched over to that site. I made up a codeplug aka mission plan for both sites and to keep them totally separate when testing. There were quite a few times SYSCOM would show up on the PG Site but nada on the Montgomery. Anyway that is my report from Aspen Hill area of Silver Spring. Interesting UMCP PD Disptached just showed up on the Montgomery site for the first time today..
tvengr
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Are College Park and Forestville combined now like Glen Burnie and Annapolis? College Park and Forestville share the same talkgroup on the Prince George's County trunked system.
I have not paid attention to that TG and or seen them on the pg site yet. mabe someone else can answer that. If you look at the TG on RR for MSP you will notice that some TG are missing but yet they are found here and I have included them in my test programming and will include them in my final mission plan
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Syscom or any talkgroup on the system will only show up when a radio (as in this case a MSP Trooper Helicopter) affiliates with the site. Talkgroups won't always be active on all sites but only when a radio affiliates with the site.
Potentially, I am not sure. During the short time I monitored the talkgroup, I only heard "Q" units on it but it is a patch from the PG system so if they are only using one talkgroup on PG (or are patched together) then the patch to FiRST should include College Park and Forestville on 7347. I haven't seen any user radio ids on 7347 except for one RID which is the patch.
tvengr
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Thank you!
awal
Member
I'm near JB Andrews as I type this and I get
Prince George's
Anne Arundel
Charles
Pretty well. In fact they were strong in NoVa too (when in Alexandria VA with SDS 100 radio)
Tracy's Landing - so-so.
I heard Montgomery site once.
Prince George's
Anne Arundel
Charles
Pretty well. In fact they were strong in NoVa too (when in Alexandria VA with SDS 100 radio)
Tracy's Landing - so-so.
I heard Montgomery site once.
State Police in Zone 5 are still operating on the local county systems for the most part, and I haven't seen much patching back to the FIRST tgs yet. The PG site seems to be fairly busy, but the Montgomery site, not so much. The Montgomery site does not seem to have an ISSI connection to the county system like the PG, AA, Howard, Baltimore, Tracys Landing have to the PG county system. Perhaps Critical Connect will change that once it's fully deployed. The St. Mary's site is usable in western Dorchester. I assume Calvert would be usable in western Talbot. The St. Mary's site is carrying a lot of DNR / NRP traffic.
It appeared that way to me as well when I was running Unitrunker on both sites. The Montgomery site was not logging as many calls as the PG site was. One thing I did notice is the ICC PD was using TG7104 on both sites depending on where they were on the ICC. I also heard calls on 7104 from the detachment on 301 down by the Potomac river on the PG site also.
awal
Member
I'm about 80% sure PGPD won't be switching over to this system. I'm 99.9999% sure that PGFD ain't. They look at me like I am crazy when I talk about a statewide radio 🤣🤣🤣 they're like, "who the hell we gonna call? They call US"🤣🤣🤣
They have their own very adequate system; it would be nonsensical to posit that and I don't believe anyone has.
There are NO plans for any of the Region 5 counties to switch to FiRST for full time use. All the counties have newer radio systems (except for Charles but they are in the process of upgrading their system) so there would be no reason to switchover. Saint Mary's was approved as a Limited Primary User before to have backup talkgroups on FiRST in the event of radio failure on their system but that would be only for as needed and not full time use.
The Charles County FIRST site is a bit of a mystery. I was looking through data I captured last week and noticed that it has Neighbor / Peer sites configured that are not really adjacent sites, at least physically - I will need to retest. It also has an ISSI connection with the PG County system, but interestingly, the Montgomery County site does not. I'm curious why the Charles County site carries UMD College Park Police as it is fairly distant, and I doubt that any College Park units affiliate with the Charles site (other than commuting officers.) I think it has more to do with the ISSI connection with PG's system than it does with being a Neighbor site to the PG site. I don't recall the Montgomery site carrying UMD College Park Police traffic, even though they are geographically much closer - I'd be curious if anyone logs UMD College Park on the Montgomery or Baltimore sites. Here in AACo, we routinely receive UMDCPP traffic, but our FIRST site also has an ISSI connection with the PG system.
I have logged UMD collage park PD and Building security on the montgomery site the other day running 2 dongles on Unitrunker. I was very supprised that it did come up on that site. I had one dongle for the Montgomery Site and One for PG for about 3hrs this past Friday
Are you hearing any Nice Bridge traffic on the ICC talk group? The ICC talk group is being heard on multiple sites in Southern Maryland. OTOH, I've heard the Tunnel Command traffic in Western MD, so they may be strapped - or have officers living in / commuting from all over the state.
Anywhere in the State of MD the MTA PD has authority over each and every park N Ride lots so if something major happened at such a lot in western MD , then unless they let the local county SO handle it, a car would have to travel to that lot to investigate what happened.
What in the world is going on with the Montgomery Site? It does show up on Unitrunker and I have tried 3 different dongles on it and no TG are showing up at all. It does show up on the PG Site as a Peer and it appears only one computer connected to it other then that it is just not running even tho it is showing online.. hmmmm
Now it just allowed UMCP Police dispatch and denied 9718960
It seems like the montgomery site is just standing still while the PG Site is very busy this morning. I wonder what is going on?????
Does anyone have any idea??
Does anyone have any idea??
