Morris County 700 MHz Simulcast Discussion

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Interesting - Chatham Township Police (45 Car) is using SmartConnect in their HQ on their APX8000s because the move to 700 has left their building with worse coverage than before.
 

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Update: Was by Chester and RT206 new sub site MIRS. MW antenna is up and looked like antennas too. SA showed signal level about -95 and up. So not turned up quite yet. Must be getting close.

Somerset no MW. Few weeks ago saw a fiber truck in vicinity right near the service driveway. Who knows. No signal either.
 

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I'll have to take a ride through with the work car and see what the radio says. Like I mentioned previously, the signal literally fell off a cliff and Somerset was better, but needed improvement in my opinion. So let's see once this baby is fired up.

NJICS I had coverage on mobile all the way down 206, I think Pluckemin was what I was affiliated too and prior to that it was the Washington Water tower when in Chester at Main/206.
 

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I'll have to take a ride through with the work car and see what the radio says. Like I mentioned previously, the signal literally fell off a cliff and Somerset was better, but needed improvement in my opinion. So let's see once this baby is fired up.

NJICS I had coverage on mobile all the way down 206, I think Pluckemin was what I was affiliated too and prior to that it was the Washington Water tower when in Chester at Main/206.
Indeed, it seems as if the site in center of the Village must be low, I saw the exact same thing. Headed south on back side of ridge the MIRS signal really dropped off. Yes Somerset came up too. I believe that there is fair elevation and a path to Somerset.

MIRS signal south on Route 206 from Chester, I saw very little better than
-95 dB, seems like new site should carry down to Route 287. Yes, we shall see.
 
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