New Jersey Homeland Security & Preparedness

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I see that the state of New Jersey has a major license modification pending before the FCC, to implement a new digital, UHFT-Band system. Does anyone know the story behind this new radio system, and what it will be used for?

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Nice catch! Looks to be focused on Burlington, Camden, Ocean, Hunterdon and Cumberland Counties although the contact listed on the application is Essex County Sheriff's Office...probably just the main NJ State Homeland Security contact address.

Should be interesting to see what it will be used for.
 

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I skimmed it and it looks like relatively minor tweaking to the old license. The only adjustments were changing 503.1125 (an apparent typo) to 503.1625 (input to 500.1625) for Sites 6 and 7. Everything else is the addition of sites 8 through 15 for mobiles, temporary repeaters, temporary bases, and the like. It doesn't look to me like any completely new channels were added. Has anyone who has studied it in detail found some novel additions?

See post 3 in this thread for identification of and tones for the channels the license contains.

Also, Anthony Melia is an APCO coordinator for NJ, and generally appears as the contact for many Essex County licenses and NJ OEM/homeland security-type licenses.

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After closer examination, one significant change that I found on all frequencies was:

Add 20K0F9W = Digital voice and data.
Delete 20K0F3E = Analog voice.

Likewise, this is purpose for filing:

Eligibility 90.20A STATE GOVERNMENT ENGAGED IN PUBLIC SAFETY. RADIOS WILL BE UTILIZED TO PROMOTE INTEROPERABILITY COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN STATE, COUNTY, AND LOCAL PUBLIC SAFETY AGENCIES.
 

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Good eye for those emission codes.

I thought, though, that 9W was basically a catch-all which potentially included analog and digital, data and voice. According to the FCC's rules & regs, 9 denotes, "Composite system with one or more channels containing quantized or digital information, together with one or more channels containing analogue information," and W denotes, "Combination of the above" [telegraphy, telephony, facsimile, data, video].

It appears, unscientifically, that the public safety licensee community is shifting towards 9W from the previously common 1D/1E/3E combination for modifications and new licenses.
 
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