Hmm time to run Unitrunker and see what TG I pick up
You have to enter the label manually as the system only advertises the zone and site numbers.Interesting, on the PG Tower under Peers the Montgomery Tower Site 005-001 is showing up but no label. I wonder if they are still testing the tower right now and Radio ID 2117632 is totally denied access to the system
Ok Time now is 1231 and radio ID 2145539 is denied along with ID 2138400,2136552 all denied on the main CC 773.73125
TIme now 1239 and 7 radio ID's have been denied on that tower
There is a subsite on the MPT tower in Clarksburg; I guess that is closest to you.Surprised that I can "see" the CC on 773.73125 considering the distance from me and being 700 MHz. Too weak to get a decode though.
01-030 is *likely* the new Carroll County simulcast cell, which combines the existing Westminster ASR with new sites at Sykesville and Taylorsville to form the new cell. Not sure what will happen to Westminster's frequencies once the conversion is finalized next year. Earlier this week I did not hear any of the new site's frequencies actually on the air, so it may only be a logical exercise in system programming atm. The cell will initially be just Westminster and Sykesville, then Taylorsville gets added later. I asked the mods to merge the thread you reference into the main FIRST sticky to keep all the info together and from getting lost, but so far they have not done so.New to me site 1.30 shows up as a neighbor to site 1.28 --
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Looks like you guys to my east are talking about it --
Montgomery tower on the MD 1st System
This morning when running my Unitrunker on the Howard county simulcast,it showed under peers sight 5-1 with Zone Bee00-4A2,Remote 005-001 showing up but no and with a control channel showing 01-1876 as active. Also I believe the Charles County Tower 001-30 with control channel of 01-1928 is also...forums.radioreference.com
1.30 doesn't currently show up as a neighbor on 1.17 or 1.20 but is a neighbor on 1.16.
In addition 5.1 shows up as a neighbor on 1.16
Both the Montgomery and Prince Georges simulcast cells ( and all of Zone 5) are not carrying operation traffic until coverage testing and backhaul construction is complete. The go-live date is currently November 15. Subscribers that are not part of the testing program will be denied affiliation, with a few exceptions.There is a lot of radio Id's that are denied on the mongomery tower 005-001 and a lot of the same radio id's are also being denied on the PG tower as well. I wonder what in the world is going on?????I am getting my info from Unitrunker running an airspy dongle
The Calvert Simulcast is back on; interestingly, it is not peering with Zone 1 sites like Tracys Landing or Anne Arundel.
Calvert and St Mary's should also be peering with sites across the bay to the east, eventually. I think there's a MW link that spans the lower bay; I'll have to look at the records.Calvert is up and peering with St. Mary's and Charles as of tonight. Will look closer at the frequencies I captured on the way home and see if anything was of interest.
Calvert and St Mary's should also be peering with sites across the bay to the east, eventually. I think there's a MW link that spans the lower bay; I'll have to look at the records.
When the Zone 5 sites (excluding Montgomery) were up earlier, they used a temporary backhaul network to conduct coverage testing. At that point, you could see the peers on the Eastern Shore. The site entries in the RRDB shows what they were at that point. I'm sure that config will return once the new backhaul segments are completed in the next few weeks.Calvert is currently peered with:
Showing control channels as 774.08125 and 774.81875.
- Prince George's Simulcast
- Charles Simulcast
- St. Mary's Simulcast
I've been able to pick up the sites from the other side of the Bay so peering with them makes sense.
Side note, I hope they keep the VHF frequencies up and running. All of Area 3 units seems to be operating on First and it hasn’t been turned off so I guess that’s a good sign for now.
The idea, IIUC, is to keep the VHF system in place as a backup to FiRST.