Mulberry Mountain Command Post?

[poppafred]

I know that the portable command post was brought to my area because of Wakarusa last weekend. Apparently they left it at the Mulberry Mountain Resort for the bluegrass festival "Thunder on the Mountain" this coming weekend because I keep hearing them occasionally talking to various troopers, not just just local ASP (Troop H) on the dispatch talk group.

They keep referring to a "TAC channel" that they are working on. Are they referring to a talk group or a different frequency off of the AWIN tower? I have my wildcards enabled (I think) so I should hear any new talk group and nothing new has popped up.

The discone is up 25' outside with low-loss coax. One solid piece from discone to scanner. I reworked my "S" units on the Pro197 so it takes a pretty strong signal to make 5 bars and the towers are 5 bars most of the time. Mulberry Mountain Resort is about 30 air miles away so I may be spitting into the wind. :lol:

 

[INDY72]

From my understanding, the MCP has the ability to turn the local area into basically a simulcast system at least on the local towers surrounding it. So any sites in range of the MCP repeater will be simulcasting if that function is on. Then again they may just be using it as an local repeater. The TAC they refer to could iether be one of the Statewide Law TG's, MAC's, Event, or possibly even the conventional ones they have. If they are running it as local area only, then you may be out of range as far as conventional.

 

[poppafred]

I am starting to believe this is a short range tactical setting on their radios, staying off the repeaters and working unit to unit directly.

Oh well, I can only take so much of drunks and stoners getting busted because they are stupid anyway...

 

[safetyobc]

TAC refers to the Tac 1, Tac 2, etc of the troop they are working in. You will hear them say, "Go to Tac 1" and they will get off the dispatch channel and use that for various reasons. Maybe a more lengthy conversation and didn't want to tie up dispatch or special events etc. It does go through the tower (repeated). If they say "go direct" there are channels in the radio that are named Direct 1, 2. These are car to car and not repeated. Very close range on those. Hope that helps.

 

[poppafred]

Never did hear them.

I went into the programming with Win500 and unblocked everything I had locked out just in case.

Nothing on the wildcards either.

Maybe the repeater they were using was out of range for me. Could be they used the MCP as a stand alone repeater this year.

Oh, well...life marches on.