Morris County 700 MHz Simulcast Discussion

[GTR8000]

It's all fine and well to pay attention to FCC license activity, but it's also nice to actually check the airwaves once in a while...

 

[richee2000]

It's all fine and well to pay attention to FCC license activity, but it's also nice to actually check the airwaves once in a while...

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What Tower sites are active?

 

[APX8000]

What Tower sites are active?

The one that's spoon feeding you above info ? How about you let us know. That's the fun of all this. Maybe drive around, check your signal strength at the various sites (14 not 15 remember) and see what you can find.

 

[rr60]

The one that's spoon feeding you above info ? How about you let us know. That's the fun of all this. Maybe drive around, check your signal strength at the various sites (14 not 15 remember) and see what you can find.

Last week I was on high ground above the VA in Bernards. Checked systems granted. They were, Morris County, Hopatcong, Madison. Nothing heard then, clearly something may have changed.

 

[richee2000]

The one that's spoon feeding you above info ? How about you let us know. That's the fun of all this. Maybe drive around, check your signal strength at the various sites (14 not 15 remember) and see what you can find.

No signal in Long hill, or Southern Bernards Twp, at this time..... I will report additional non "spoon fed" info this weekend.

 

[GTR8000]

Early stages of buildout/testing, one subsite on the air, no talkgroups linked between cells yet, different set of talkgroups for 700 cell, TDMA. 🥄

 

[rr60]

Early stages of buildout/testing, one subsite on the air, no talkgroups linked between cells yet, different set of talkgroups for 700 cell, TDMA. 🥄

As difficult it is for me to say, that is funny to me for some reason.😂

 

[APX8000]

No signal in Long hill, or Southern Bernards Twp, at this time..... I will report additional non "spoon fed" info this weekend

Keep driving....You are looking in the worst part of the County...so much so that Long Hill PD is using NJICS to talk to Morris. I'll give you a clue....think Horace Greeley, but replace west with North.

 

[richee2000]

Keep driving....You are looking in the worst part of the County...so much so that Long Hill PD is using NJICS to talk to Morris. I'll give you a clue....think Horace Greeley, but replace west with North.
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Well at least I now know the control channel frequency.

 

[GTR8000]

Well at least I now know the control channel frequency.

You mean the one that's been in the RRDB for over 6 hours? 🤦‍♂️

 

[richee2000]

You mean the one that's been in the RRDB for over 6 hours? 🤦‍♂️

Your "internets" must be a lot faster than mine since a quick check of the RRDB approximately 1 hour ago did not indicate the 700 simulcast at that time. It does now. 😳

 

[GTR8000]

That's weird...I added it around 6 PM. Try clearing your browser's cache, could've been stale.

 

[APX8000]

Well at least I now know the control channel frequency.

Ummmm, maybe I'm a little slow but it would help to know that when you had no signal in them there woods.

 

[richee2000]

Ummmm, maybe I'm a little slow but it would help to know that when you had no signal in them there woods.

I also have each channel programmed in manually, as a conventional system. Therefore I would have detected the signal from the control channel data if there was one..🙄

 

[richee2000]

Full signal in Livingston

 

[rr60]

Nice and neat and organized. Perhaps we are starting to see the beginning of the simulcast and sub-site numbering layout.

Site 6, as in DB @GTR8000 and @richee2000 @GTR8000 screenshot matches nicely w Site numbering as seen on license.

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6 - Fixed

BEHIND 284 BEAUFORT AVENUE LIVINGSTON, NJ ESSEX County

 

[APX8000]

I'll respectfully disagree with that. If my memory serves me correct, I believe when Morris County's first trunking system came online, their Site 1 was a simulcast of Randolph, Morristown, Netcong and Dover sites. Site 2 simulcast was Boonton, Kinnelon and Jefferson. Site 3 filled a gap out in Long Valley and Site 4 was maybe Chatham?....would have to look back in the database to confirm. When they upgraded, all sites became Site 5. And now we see Site 6.

Hey richie, good job. BUT, are you getting that off Riker Hill or another one. Hmmmmmm.

 

[richee2000]

I'll respectfully disagree with that. If my memory serves me correct, I believe when Morris County's first trunking system came online, their Site 1 was a simulcast of Randolph, Morristown, Netcong and Dover sites. Site 2 simulcast was Boonton, Kinnelon and Jefferson. Site 3 filled a gap out in Long Valley and Site 4 was maybe Chatham?....would have to look back in the database to confirm. When they upgraded, all sites became Site 5. And now we see Site 6.
Thank you, actually I'm not positive this is signal is from riker Hill.
Hey richie, good job. BUT, are you getting that off Riker Hill or another one. Hmmmmmm.

I'll respectfully disagree with that. If my memory serves me correct, I believe when Morris County's first trunking system came online, their Site 1 was a simulcast of Randolph, Morristown, Netcong and Dover sites. Site 2 simulcast was Boonton, Kinnelon and Jefferson. Site 3 filled a gap out in Long Valley and Site 4 was maybe Chatham?....would have to look back in the database to confirm. When they upgraded, all sites became Site 5. And now we see Site 6.

Hey richie, good job. BUT, are you getting that off Riker Hill or another one. Hmmmmmm.

Thank you, the location I am currently located at is 183 ft above sea level and looks west, Randolph would be line of sight. I will attempt to drive by the riker Hill site, remove the antenna from my SDS 100, observe the signal strength, and report back.

 

[APX8000]

"Randolph would be line of sight." Isn't that where the Prime is located? Hmmmmmm

 

[richee2000]

"Randolph would be line of sight." Isn't that where the Prime is located? Hmmmmmm

Yes, as I said , "I am getting full signal strength in Livingston". At this point, the location of this signal is unknown.