Middletown p25

[t5holmes]

They will be going live November 5. Public works is on the new system now talkgroup 503.

 

[jperuta]

They will be going live November 5. Public works is on the new system now talkgroup 503.

Have you heard if the current frequencies will still be active?

 

[paul612]

Usually they recycle the old frequencies they just convert them over when they convert the system

 

[t5holmes]

Some will be used for tone out capability that is all. I dont see any listing yet for groups. I hear public works now on the system and they have been testing. Going live November 5th .

 

[Kitn1mcc]

i heard its gonna be all encrypted anyway

 

[mkt853]

i heard its gonna be all encrypted anyway

Yes it is. Is Portland still joining the system? Thought in the initial stages the encryption was a sticking point for them.

 

[t5holmes]

Only pd is encrypted.. fd has an encrypted group won’t be used routinely. Some new talkgroups this week playing with radio 201 Westfield, 200 mfd.

 

[RESQ766]

Only pd is encrypted.. fd has an encrypted group won’t be used routinely. Some new talkgroups this week playing with radio 201 Westfield, 200 mfd.

Do you have the list of talkgroups?

 

[Dickie_10]

Only pd is encrypted.. fd has an encrypted group won’t be used routinely. Some new talkgroups this week playing with radio 201 Westfield, 200 mfd.

TG 202 appears to be South District Fire, during the summer that talkgroup occasionally had a patch from their VHF. Not a lot of voice traffic recently but DSDplus has logged a number of radio affiliations to that TG.

 

[t5holmes]

Do you have the list of talkgroups?

I’m working on it

 

[doctordialtone]

Police Dispatcher just stated, "We are switched over to the new system now".

 

[55engine]

How Middletown doing on the new radios are they working good

 

[jperuta]

Police Dispatcher just stated, "We are switched over to the new system now".

Do you happen to have a Talkgroup list Because i cant seem to find anything on radio reference.

 

[doctordialtone]

Do you happen to have a Talkgroup list

No. The only two groups on the new system are PD and Public Works.

Public Works is heard VERY rarely.

Fire, citywide, is still using their old frequencies.

I've heard testing on over 20 groups, but they don't say what they are being used for.

 

[MFCJR]

DPW and the fire tone test's they are doing come in loud and clear by the New Britain/Newington town line.

 

[RESQ766]

DPW and the fire tone test's they are doing come in loud and clear by the New Britain/Newington town line.

What TG was the fire tone test on?

 

[t5holmes]

What TG was the fire tone test on?

City is 200, Westfield is 201, south fire is 203. Central dispatch is100 So far. Pd fully encrypted unless they drop it .

 

[MFCJR]

I heard some brief encryption on 101. I think my scanner blocks most of it. The 3 fire TG's I hear are 200, 201, 202.

 

[doctordialtone]

I think my scanner blocks most of it.

Yep

If it's a Uniden, yes - encryption will be mostly ignored

 

[MFCJR]

Yes, Uniden 536. But it does not block New Britain's encryption for some reason.