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Has anyone came accross the new CHP talk groups?
The following is from the NAPCo news letter
http://www.napco.org/newsletters/090701nl.pdf
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) has begun a statewide initiative to upgrade communications capability for their officers.
The California Highway Patrol Enhanced Radio System, the “CHPERS” project for short, is a multi phased project that will add
7/800MHz Project 25 mobile radios to all patrol vehicles and portable radios to all field officers beginning in late 2009, with
estimated completion in late 2012
The new equipment will complement the CHP’s system wide radio enhancement effort, which will also include installation of
local 700 MHz base-station equipment at all field offices and commercial vehicle inspection facilities. The addition of the new
equipment will greatly improve the CHP’s ability to communicate during critical incidents and responses with agencies operating
on these bands throughout the state. Additionally, the CHP will begin using the 700 MHz channels acquired as the primary
band for the vehicle repeater system used to connect officers to the low band mobile radio when out of the vehicle.
Patrol vehicles will field a new package of mobile radios covering VHF low band, VHF high band, UHF and 700/800 MHz,
which will all be accessible through the vehicle repeater system.
The first rollout has begun in Sacramento County. The CHP entered into a Secondary User Agreement with the Sacramento
Regional Radio Communications System (SRRCS) allowing the new CHP portables to communicate directly with the law enforcement
and fire agencies in Sacramento County and the City of West Sacramento without a manual patch. Through an
agreement with the City of Roseville, SRRCS also added Roseville’s police talk groups to the new portables.
As part of the COPS 2007 grant, SRRCS, with the cooperation of the CHP, is adding a low band transceiver at their head in
and connecting it to an 800 MHz talk group; furthering SRRCS’s interoperability with the CHP.
At this month’s NAPCO meeting, representatives from CHP will be available to discuss their program in detail, and answer
questions that NAPCO members may have with the deployment.
Questions? Contact Lt. Evan Robinson at
ERobinson@chp.ca.gov