I am now hearing both sides of the Alabama State Troopers on 154.920. It is acting like a repeater. It use to be where I would have to listen to the base on 154.920 and the car on 155.445. Now it is all on 154.920.
So the repeater output is 155.445? Do you know what the input frequency is? Can't believe they would choose this output freq, especially at that location. That should be causing severe interference on the car-to-post frequency of all of the surrounding posts.Thanks Avery 93 for the 155.445. I took out my tone tonight and heard the Dothan State Repeater running 107.2 tone for DPS.
Good? Bad?The plan is to convert all towers to repeater operation statewide over the next two months. They are starting on the south end of the state and moving north apparently.
The input frequency of the 154.920 repeaters should still be 155.445 though. Or at least that's the way Tuscaloosa's transmitter was converted; they simply used the existing frequency pair. The separation of the 154.920/155.445 split would be a fairly tight (525 kHz), but easily workable.Yep. Dothan state was using 155.445 with a 107.2 tone. It really didn't matter at the time because mobile state was using 154.9290 as a repeater and not split. Just heard it for 2 days. They are back running split now.
Looks like a lot of strangeness out of Dothan state. Never seen DPS use DPL before. At least they are no longer (presumably) using the old DPS-2 pair backwards.DPS Dothan State - 155.505
I think I heard Dothan State Friday morning doing radio checks on a repeater of 155.505.
There was someone calling Dothan with Radio ID # of SD 58 asked Dothan to call units and do a radio check.
Dothan called B-220 and did a radio check and the SD unit talking to B-220 and asked how the radio sounded.
It was during a band opening and I am not sure if I was hearing Dothan State DPS dispatcher or someone else.
Dothan State, Repeater Output Freq. was 155.505 with 025 DPL. Tone.
Someone may want to add the New Alabama DPS Map posted by BamaScan to the wiki on the DPS frequency page.
Current map shows the old post Id's.
http://forums.radioreference.com/alabama-radio-discussion-forum/296179-new-alabama-dps-map.html
There has been two new repeaters added up in my area.
License/Call Sign: KIB326
New DPS Repeater: Boaz in Etowah County on 154.9275
New DPS Repeater: Fort Payne in DeKalb County on 158.7900.
The repeaters are not active they but I expect they will be sooner or later.