There seems to be a very odd dead spot up by the top of the hill on Bloomfield Ave down to Pompton Ave. However, I can hear them loud and clear all the way down the parkway by the Driscoll Bridge area and as far west as Mountain Lakes/Parsippany.
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Are you monitoring them on one of their Harris XG-25P portables or simply from a Phase 2 scanner?
MPD uses APX6000i portables & 6500 mobiles. Where are you getting Harris from?
I have personally seen more the 1 Montclair PD officer carrying and using Harris radios. Within the past 2 months. I work up in Montclair quite frequently and have screen their department use Harris radios with my own two eyes.
Are you talking about the Montclair TRS, or their simulcast on NJICS? The PD is on both. I live right on the West Orange/Montclair border and have a hard time pulling in the Montclair TRS.
I'm using moto APX portable and mobiles.
My friend's been on the force for 17 years & was sending me pics the entire time of the transition - the only radios they tested were the APX6000Li and the Tait TP9400...
If it wasn't privacy violations involved I would love to snap a photo to show you in a PM the radios portables only Ive witrnessed their patrol division using. Was a XG-25P series radio. Couldn't of been, but 2 months ago. Late Sept into early Oct. Ask your friend if their patrol division has officer(s) issued Harris portables
Full keypad XG radios too. With the 700mhz antenna attached
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That is part of what P25 is about. Multiple vendors with the same protocol. I know that Motorola has proprietary features that Harris/Tait do not have. I could be a trial or a price issue.
Motorola APX6000LI, I can confirm no Harris radios in MPD NJ. Some cars still have their old motorolas and the channels are patched to transmit across the old and new system through dispatch console.
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Also just FYI, there is a repeater on top of Mountainside Hospital, but it is typically turned off. The Battalion chief will physically notify dispatch to turn it on for certain calls in Glen Ridge/inside Mountainside Hospital directly.
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I heard back from my friend yesterday confirming this - the Harris models were considered by the tech division, but only the APX and Tait models ever made it to real-world tests.
That seems odd. What would be the purpose of having it turned off? I noticed some days Montclair FD sounds better than others. Maybe that's the reason.
It's a standalone repeater so it wouldn't matter.
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Could you be a little more vague? What's a "standalone" repeater, and what wouldn't matter?
You said you noticed some days the FD sounds better than others and that maybe having that repeater turned on would be the reason.
A standalone repeater is a repeater that is not connected to a series of other repeaters in a system such as a simulcast setup. So regardless, if the repeater was turned on full time it wouldn't increase coverage in their entire area of response, it would only help in the area where the repeater is situated to cover. So leaving it on full-time wouldn't matter.
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A standalone repeater is a repeater that is not connected to a series of other repeaters in a system such as a simulcast setup. So regardless, if the repeater was turned on full time it wouldn't increase coverage in their entire area of response, it would only help in the area where the repeater is situated to cover. So leaving it on full-time wouldn't matter.
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I have not heard this once in the 8 years I've been living here and monitoring every day.
You may be confusing this with the Glen Ridge EMS/PD TAC channel (470.3375) which indeed lives atop Mountainside hospital and is used as a GR PD backup during power failures at their HQ.
The Montclair Township TRS and FD repeaters operate out of 2 sites; one is at PD HQ and the other north and up the hill on a water tower off of Crestmont Dr.
Here is some data to help clear up the confusion:
Monclair Police Headquarters site
AntennaSearch - Search for Cell Towers, Cell Reception, Hidden Antennas and more.
Crestmont Rd Water Tower site
AntennaSearch - Search for Cell Towers, Cell Reception, Hidden Antennas and more.
Mountainside Hospital site
AntennaSearch - Search for Cell Towers, Cell Reception, Hidden Antennas and more.
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As a Dispatcher for the departments I can confirm its true.
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